IKEA Wants You to Hang Up the SYMFONISK Speaker on the Wall Like a Piece of Art
IKEA's new SYMFONISK picture frame is also a Sonos powered WiFi speaker you can hang up as a wall of sound.
It’s not all too surprising IKEA is back with a new addition to their smart home category, a new wall-mountable audio speaker disguised as a picture frame. Joining their previous efforts with Sonos (the SYMFONISK bookshelf speaker and table lamp), the Swedish furniture brand continues to serve those who believe in the notion home audio is best heard rather than openly seen with the announcement of the new SYMFONISK picture frame.
IKEA designer, Andreas Fredriksson, the speaker was inspired by the idea: ?furnishing your home with sound?. To this purpose the speaker is outfitted with interchangeable fronts; a unit can work as a singular sound source, but also in multitudes as both an aesthetic and audible mood, each with their stream settings using the Sonos S2 app, allowing users to send different streams to separate devices at once.
I envision the speaker blending in, on a picture wall, together with other picture frames. That was the key point of the design: we wanted the product to be handled much like a traditional picture frame, both in the way you hang it and how it fits with the other frames on a wall.
– Stjepan Begic, Product Developer, IKEA of Sweden
Measuring at 22″ high, 16″ wide, and 2″ deep, the frame is fairly slim, but not completely inconspicuous when grouped with actual wall art. But it is still small enough ...
It’s not all too surprising IKEA is back with a new addition to their smart home category, a new wall-mountable audio speaker disguised as a picture frame. Joining their previous efforts with Sonos (the SYMFONISK bookshelf speaker and table lamp), the Swedish furniture brand continues to serve those who believe in the notion home audio is best heard rather than openly seen with the announcement of the new SYMFONISK picture frame.
IKEA designer, Andreas Fredriksson, the speaker was inspired by the idea: ?furnishing your home with sound?. To this purpose the speaker is outfitted with interchangeable fronts; a unit can work as a singular sound source, but also in multitudes as both an aesthetic and audible mood, each with their stream settings using the Sonos S2 app, allowing users to send different streams to separate devices at once.
I envision the speaker blending in, on a picture wall, together with other picture frames. That was the key point of the design: we wanted the product to be handled much like a traditional picture frame, both in the way you hang it and how it fits with the other frames on a wall.
– Stjepan Begic, Product Developer, IKEA of Sweden
Measuring at 22″ high, 16″ wide, and 2″ deep, the frame is fairly slim, but not completely inconspicuous when grouped with actual wall art. But it is still small enough ...
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