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 ...

For many, shopping at Ikea is a rite of passage. Sign the lease on your first apartment, buy a bed at the Swedish megastore, then feel a sense of pride after assembling your piece of furniture.

IKEA and other furniture folks took notice. In early October, IKEA announced a new line of furniture that catered to the gamer. According to Ewa Rychert, Business Leader for Workspaces at IKEA ...

The furniture giant is trying to remake its own operations to encourage durability, repairability, and resale of used furniture. And now it wants to help other furniture companies do the same.

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.

Ikea's introduction of a wooden wedge dowel not only helps improve the construction experience, it makes the furniture more durable. Skip to main content Menu ...

Ikea, the Swedish home furnishings giant, ventured into secondhand retail last summer to make its flat-packed, versatile furniture more accessible to shoppers. Five months in, the experiment has ...

The condition of the item sold back to Ikea will determine the value. Ikea furniture in “new” condition with no scratches could receive 50 percent of the original price, the release said.

As midcentury Swedish design legend has it, an Ikea designer named Gillis Lundgren jumpstarted the flat-packed furniture trend when he sawed the legs off of a Lövet table to fit it in his car.