Vintage Ikea Furniture for Sale
Vintage Ikea is big business. These secondhand Swedish hits have got design buffs infatuated.
Ikea is known for its back-to-life, back-to-uni dorm decor, and space-saving ideas. It's where you go to create the room of your dreams for a fraction of the cost and not too cute to boot interior design you can leave behind when you move out.
Vintage Ikea furniture and their 1970s and 80s cheerful retro chairs Ikea designs were perhaps once too extreme for a mass audience, but now thanks to a newfound obsession, they speak to dealers and collectors seeking some greatest hits of Scandinavian design, reframing the Swedish furniture giant as an innovative, unpretentious approach to design.
Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad emphasised its always been driven by design. When he started the company in 1943 as a mail-order business, later commissioning designs himself, the brand has collaborated with some notable designers like Verner Panton and Niels Gammelgaard.
The thrill of the old Ikea furniture chase is not only the price tag but finding something from such a familiar face. The home of the IKEA Museum has proven to be a valuable tool for pursuing desired pieces such as the Billy bookcase, the Vilbert chair, and even garden furniture. Forty rare IKEA catalogues were discovered dating back to the seventies.
Give this modernist back-to-basics a try; maybe you'll find a retro sideboard Ikea bargain for your retirement fund.