Can IKEA Furniture Look Good and Last for the Long Haul? Experts Weigh In originally appeared on Parade Home & Garden. Since the 1940s, IKEA has served as a hub of minimalist, mid-century ...

When I asked Andreas the highest price an IKEA piece has sold for, he told me, 'That would be Bengt Ruda’s Cavelli armchair.In autumn 2021, it set a world record, selling for 151,000 SEK (around ...

As it turns out, IKEA isn’t the only place you can go for affordable furniture of equal or better quality and pricing. In some ways, IKEA’s success has given rise to competitors that want to ...

This dichotomy could materialize in multifunctional furniture that can be configured for individual and group use. In a conceptual exercise, Ikea invited students from ECAL to create 50 essential ...

But Ikea doesn’t need to be the furniture equivalent of fast fashion. Its items can last, said Pete Oyler, associate professor of furniture design at Rhode Island School of Design.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I find innovation stories in America’s industrial heartland. Could augmented reality be the end of Ikea assembly headaches ...

IKEA, best known for its furniture, continues to dip its toes into smart home products. The VINDSTYRKA air quality monitor is their latest intelligent device.

IKEA also plans to expand TaskRabbit, a U.S. online marketplace for odd jobs like furniture assembly it bought in 2017, to many more markets, and is looking for other similar acquisition or ...