Along with Volvo and ABBA, IKEA is Swedens most internationally successful brand. In recent years, furniture pieces from IKEA have occasionally turned up at international design auctions. These inexpensive, owner-assembled, everyday products have become collectors items. Meanwhile, the designers behind the furniture at IKEA have long remained unknown to most of us. IKEA the book brings them into the limelight to describe their creative and successful work. The book takes the reader on a journey into the internationally celebrated world of Scandinavian design. What ideals are IKEAs designs based on? What makes the KLIPPAN sofa and the BILLY bookcase as sought after in Basel and New York as in Stockholm? How did Ingvar Kamprad get world-famous designers like Verner Panton and Hella Jongerius to create original pieces for mass production in IKEAs factories? IKEA the book is more than a walk through the fantastic history of The Great Furniture Factory;it holds something for anyone with...