Designers of Ikea

Staffan Bengtsson

No company has arguably done more than Ikea when it comes to the democratization of good design. You can take all the Eames chairs, Noguchi tables, and Alessi teakettles ever made and lay them end-to-end, and you won’t even get close to the amount of great-looking modern furniture and housewares sold by the Swedish giant in just a year.

This landmark, lavishly illustrated book is the first complete presentation ever of the creators behind the world´s most successful furniture enterprise. Ikea´s designers have long been anonymous to the majority of us, but from the very outset the company engaged skilled designers for its furniture productions. Beginning in 1995, the company invested heavily in an even stronger contemporary design profile with its PS series, and since then Ikea has won two prestigious international awards for its products: the red dot award and the EXCELLENT Swedish Design award. Ikea’s beautiful objects at mind-bogglingly low prices are found in millions of the world’s homes – and now, its furniture is eagerly sought-after by collectors and in auction rooms.

Designers of Ikea, presents all of the faces – Swedish and international – known and unknown – behind the huge output of “democratic design” on offer at Ikea the world over including Bengt Ruda, Gillis Lundgren, Knut och Marianne Hagberg, Johan Huldt, Maria Vinka, Inez Svensson, Viola Gråsten, Jan Dranger, and others. A monumental project with hundreds of unique illustrations ranging from the company’s beginnings to its vast present-day collection of turn-key beauty for the everyman.

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