Wednesday 8 September 2010

60 years of the IKEA catalogue

IKEA is present in our homes since its foundation in 1943. It is mostly present in Europe, Asia, North America and Australia. Despite its Swedish roots, the whole organization of IKEA is in the hands of a net of mostly non-profit Dutch foundation-group called INGKA. But some parts of it are in the hands of profit oriented INGKA Holdings. This way they try to get away with taxes and they have been severly criticized becuase of that. More about the very complicated business sturcture of IKEA visit Wikipedia.

Lövet Werksentwurf, IKEA, 1956

IKEA catalogues come out annually, and there are more copies of the catalogues printed each year, than the Bible. At the following link you can see a page from each catalogue since 1951, accompanied with fitting music from the decade. On the bottom you can also find the happenings/characteristics of the year in each decade with links to articles and videos.

1956



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