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This article may contain affiliate links that Yahoo and/or the publisher may receive a commission from if you buy a product or service through those links. IKEA’s BILLY bookcase is one of the brand’s ...

You know IKEA’s Billy bookcase, right? You probably have one or two or 10 of them in your home, so popular is this staple of Swedish flat-packed build-it-yourself furniture. So why is IKEA changing ...

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Tim Harford tells the extraordinary story of Ikea’s Billy bookcase in this extract from his new book Fifty Things That Made The Modern Economy. Denver Thornton hates the Billy bookcase. He runs a ...

The ubiquitous Ikea Billy bookcase, which has graced the walls of millions of first-time homeowners and apartment dwellers, turns 30 this week. The much copied, bought, sold and traded bookcase was ...

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 ...