IKEA offers digital versions of old catalogues on its museum website

The early catalogues are comparatively utilitarian affairs; things don't get really interesting until the late 1960s and '70s

As millions of people around the world become intimately familiar with their home decor, the Swedish furniture giant IKEA is offering an online resource to fuel your redecoration reveries: In honour of the the 70th anniversary of the company’s first catalogue, IKEA just dropped digital versions of every catalogue on its museum website. If your idea of a good time is wandering the labyrinth of your local IKEA showroom, trying out sectionals in a pretend living room, this digital trove of modular furniture makes an excellent and Covid-safe alternative distraction.

As of 2019, IKEA boasts 433 stores across 53 countries, inundating