2024-04-27T07:58:18-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149960901/kanye-west-has-ambitions-to-design-for-ikea-run-for-president-in-2020 Amelia Taylor-Hochberg 2016-08-01T14:11:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/lv/lvyy7unyub091v4f.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Famous rapper, fashion designer, husband of Kim Kardashian West and incorrigible enfant terrible Kanye West announced his desire to design for Ikea in a recent interview with Annie Mac on BBC Radio 1.</p><p>"I have to work with Ikea&mdash;make furniture for interior design, for architecture," he told Mac.&nbsp;"Yo Ikea, allow Kanye to create. Allow him to make this thing because you know what, I want a bed that he makes, I want a chair that he makes&mdash;I want more products from Ye."&nbsp;</p><p>West, who&nbsp;<a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/133660145/oana-stanescu-the-architect-behind-kanye-s-volcano-talks-to-ny-times-about-pushing-design-boundaries-via-pop-culture" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">hired architects to design a volcano</a> and made a <a href="http://archinect.com/lian/update-gsd-african-american-student-union-and-dean-mohsen-comment-on-kanye-west-visit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">surprise visit to the GSD studios</a>, has previously expressed a desire to work with design and architecture professionals. With Mac, he spoke specifically of wanting to design&nbsp;"a minimalist apartment inside of a college dorm," which sounds downright wistful given his debut album was titled <em>The College Dropout</em>.</p><p>According to a report by the <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36939619" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BBC</a>, Ikea has not commented on West's aims at partnership, but that earlier this year West had visited Ikea's HQ in &Auml;lmhult, Sweden, a...</p>