This old Ikea furniture is now on sale for a great price

If you adopted an Impala in 1972 and it’s still around, you’re one hell of a lucky guy. Especially if it has no horns in addition to a metal skeleton, and if it comes not from Central Africa or South Africa, but from Sweden… Because it really is a Gillis Lundgren-designed Impala discussed for Ikea. This armchair with a very calm line was sold in blue and yellow shops for a very reasonable price of 37 euros (the equivalent of different currencies, the euro did not exist then). Fifty-two years later, an example Impala that survived the wear and tear because it was no doubt cherished and well-kept by its owner, or simply forgotten in an attic or storage, sold for €2,300 on the Selency website… value!

Also a big knock on Nils Gamelgaard’s guide shelf, again for Ikea. This minimalist bookcase with a ladder structure and primary colored shelves cost the equivalent of €65 when it was launched in 1985 and recently sold on Design Market for €1,629.

And what about the huge jump on Bent Gantzel Boysen’s Duett pendant light for Ikea, which cost just €8.90 in 1983 and the tag on Selency was €250. But what makes decoraholics run to this vintage Democratic furniture? Why are they willing to hack already affordable creations, thereby raising their prices?

Ikea’s 80 years perhaps explain this obsession. To celebrate this anniversary, the brand is re-releasing a number of objects and furniture. The house’s designers have delved into the archives to find pieces that still resonate with the times, which they have nevertheless re-adapted to their tastes. This collection, called Nyfäskarsad, promises to regularly enrich with “icons”. At 50 years old, Japanese designer Noboru Nakamura’s Kliplan two-seater sofa is the ultimate in sheer simplicity. His Poäng rocking chair with a high and very comfortable headboard, created in 1977, is also part of this casting. Both are offered at the very reasonable prices of €319 and €79.99. An investment that isn’t extravagant and that will yield a small nest egg for your offspring in a few years. But beware that after half a century you resell them profitably, you will have to avoid using them… Is the game really worth it?