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Ikea makes a Billy bookcase every three seconds and sells one every five — something the company has been proudly broadcasting for years. Apparently, that’s not fast enough. As the Swedish retailer of ...

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We gave a pair of designers with very different styles one day to transform the same IKEA Billy bookcase, turning one of the most popular furniture items in the world into something more personalized ...

Every New Yorker knows that renting an apartment is a game of trade-offs — you can’t (and won’t) win ’em all when it comes to your “must-haves” list. When one unit has a dishwasher, it’s missing ...

Gillis Lundgren, an industrial designer who helped make Ikea the largest furniture retailer in the world with his no-frills designs, most notably the Billy bookcase that millions of frugal book ...

The Billy bookcase is perhaps the archetypal Ikea product. It was dreamed up in 1978 by an Ikea designer called Gillis Lundgren who sketched it on the back of a napkin, worried that he would forget it ...