New solar-powered lighting from IKEA  

i don't know either
Id rather use flash lights than use ikea lamps. Id also rather go thrifting than buy their poorly made particle board furniture. That is my opinion anyways.

Here we go again with IKEA snobbery...
Not everything at IKEA is cheap/poor and as always 'Caveat Emptor'. If you're not able to discern the difference between the good stuff and the bad, then that's your problem not IKEA's. You're definitely entitled to your opinion, but I'm so tired of hearing it from all the furniture snobs. You're just the latest, don't mean to bash you, personally.
I got some on the 1/2 sphere outdoor solar lights last year and they're really cool. The charge lasts all night long out here in NM.

IKEA
Has great stuff besides their furniture. Some of that is okay, too.
Mmmmmm meatballs.

I've been
impressed with some of their solid wood pieces -- stools, and things like that. Their kitchen cabinets offer a look and a price -- period.
I'll have to return a butcher-block counter of beech that I bought to make a bath vanity top. I intended to buy a raw wood top so I could cut it and urethane it. I asked twice, and was led to believe that the NUMERAR top I got was unfinished. When I opened it: oiled. I had to go in a different direction.
My favorite IKEA product name: LACK. I'll be looking at their glassware next. Pier One, etc, no longer have the simple cylinder glasses I've enjoyed for years.

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Looking for plain cylinders? Good luck, plain unadultered geometry in anything low or middle range is getting rare these days, everythings got to have some useless 'feature', drives me crazy.
Afraid I'm one of Olives Ikea snobs, rather go without than have something that will not last last my lifetime. If only tools and other things...ah well I suppose entropy is nature of this accursed universe.
Did buy a glass table just for the glass once, it was cheaper to buy an entire Ikea table than order the glass from a merchant.
Did anyone know you can make 2 pounds of Hommus for about $1.80 if you buy the chickpeas dried? I feel sick.

plain cylinder glass
Plain (no decoration) cylinder glasses are available from Baccarat (the Perfection series) and may be purchased at Neiman Marcus. Now there is a choice as to where a person shops. Quality and service or IKEA.
http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod76050001...

If you hadn't advised giving a young boy Tiffany silverware every Christmas...
... then this Baccarat advice would be the dumbest thing you've written all year.
Do you have Asperger Syndrome?
http://www.designaddict.com/design_addict/forums/index.cfm/fuseaction/th...

And Heath...
I don't know whether they count as "low or middle range" -- they're $12 apiece, 1/8 the price of the Baccarat tumblers -- but the Riedel glasses pictured in this thread are as plain and geometric as anyone could possibly want:
http://www.designaddict.com/design_addict/forums/index.cfm/fuseaction/th...

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Good to see, unfortunately I live in the land that taste forgot.
Was speaking generally though really, everything from T shirts to flower pots to shoes. Does anyone else find this? There is always good plain things at the high end but so much seems to have some attention grabbing irritating detail.
A mate of mine has Aspergers and believe me he is quite human 🙂

Lifespan
I've got some IKEA things that I've had nearly 20 years and are holding up just fine. I am not into creating landfill.

Twelve
DOLLARS !?!
Who am I -- the Queen of England ?
Heh-heh. Thanks. I'll keep looking . . . ! The day I spend $12 on a drinking glass . . .

Only the best
fastfwd,
My desires and reality may be dumb for you, but for me it is a way of life. I am fortunate (or blessed as the case may be) to be able to have most of life's luxuries. IKEA serves a purpose, it just not for me. Everyones opinion is valid for them. Thank you for your input.

That frigging wedding, has...
That frigging wedding, has the whole planet undergone a mass lobotomy or something?
I'm with you SDR, I draw the line at about 2 dollars for that sort of thing, a while ago I posted the drinking glasses I use, noticed once at a charity shop that there were always a few of this type, got a couple of boxes of them stashed away, (you know, for the end times) usually they just want 20 cents for them.

SDR
Have you looked at Libby glassware in Target? They might have a cylindrical glass. You can also check the Libby site. Maybe it's Libbey. I dunno. They have some nice basic stuff.
I'm convinced that niceguy is a performance artist.
Olive, I love those half-sphere solar-powered lights, too. I wish I had a place to put a bunch of them. I love their bluish, moonish glow in the dark.
IKEA kitchens have Blum drawer glides, the best in the industry. So there's that.
They have a lot of nice stuff that will last a lifetime, you just have to avoid looking at the junk.