This year IKEA celebrates the 30th anniversary of KLIPPAN sofas and BILLY bookcases.
source: fotoconikea.it
To mark this date one more time the brand has launched fotoconikea.it (pic.) where it collects users’s photos of interiors with BILLY, KLIPPAN or both.
In case you don’t know, BILLY was designed by Swedish-born Gillis Lundgren, which also developed the idea of the flat pack, one of the IKEA’s symbols, with Ingvar Kamprad.
“I drew the first sketches on a napkin. That was often the way we worked. Ideas are perishable and you have to capture the moment as soon as it arrives,” he says. “Not everyone lives in the same type of home. Some have very little space, some have more. But BILLY fits in everywhere with its different heights and widths, wood types and colours. You might say there’s always a place for BILLY, whether it’s the living room or an unassuming little corner in the hall, or wherever there’s a free space”.
And here is also a video how KLIPPAN sofas were changed after a number of years:
