Ikea catalogs 1950 - 20

[foraloysius]

Ikea has put all of their catalogs online, from the first one in 1950 until the last one. They are all in Swedish. Nice to browse through them though.

https://ikeamuseum.com/en/digital/ikea-catalogues-through-the-ages/

 

[jamiel]

Thanks for finding these...kinda fun. My first experience with them was in 1988 or so upon their initial move to the US. Can't recall if it was Pittsburgh or Philadelphia.

 

[petek]

Very neat. It's interesting to see how the early catalogs had more traditional furniture styles and transitioned to modern. I well remember the opening of the first N.American store in Richmond BC a suburb of Vancouver in 1976. I haven't been in an IKEA since we left Calgary in 2006

 

[jamiel]

They really are stamped out like cookies...the one in Canton's like the one in Schaumburg's like the one in .....

 

[davey7]

Oh, you just haaaad to post that link, didn't you....

Now I'm going to be browsing them under hela helgan, du!

 

[foraloysius]

You’ll be busy! lol Enjoy yourself!

 

[gansky1]

Thanks for this link, have been browsing these several times since your first posting.  

 

I wish I could fill out an order form and mail it with a money order....

 

[foraloysius]

You're welcome!

I browse a bit now and then too. Much to my amazement there is a vacuum in the 1976 catalogue, a Hemvac. Never heard of that brand.

 

[chestermikeuk]

IKEA vacs

Fabulous reading Louis, more than a few nights bedtime reading , my local store Warrington is nearly 35 years open , the first in the UK and still has many original staff working there

The Hemvac looks like body of a Philips with features of the Electrolux ? I think

 

[Ultramatic]

Thanks Louis for the link!

 

 

IKEA should consider bringing back many of these early designs. They are indeed timeless.