Ikea Decorates Its Furniture With Bird Droppings

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Think of it as plop art.

Ikea pours it on thick and nasty to celebrate opening a new store in Brighton, U.K. The seaside town is famed for its seagulls, which are known to use tourists and locals alike for … target practice. Glop, slop!

Now, Mother London and photographer Lydia Whitmore immortalized these gastronomic gifts from above in an amusingly unsavory series of ads.

As for how the shoot went down (heh), the team deployed hand-painted props for an artsy (and indeed, fartsy) effect.

There’s a joke there about stools. And here’s another for your files:

Next time, keep the pieces in their boxes until you get home.