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I was standing in a rental kitchen in Hackney when the penny dropped. Two scuffed IKEA Billy bookcases were slouched under a ...

The ever-popular BILLY bookcase made its debut in IKEA showrooms in 1979. In 2022, IKEA relaunched their fan-favorite shelving with less plastic and paper foil instead of veneer. The result? Improved ...

When it comes to bookshelves, few are more iconic than the IKEA BILLY bookcase. IKEA BILLYs have been seen in many, many apartments and homes since 1978 — in fact, IKEA sells one BILLY every five ...

Whenever you approach the blue and yellow beauty of an IKEA, it’s hard not to get a little bit excited (or a little bit nervous about how busy it will be). But, there’s some items in IKEA that are ...

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. If there’s a single item in IKEA’s catalog ...

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 ...

Doom and gloom doubled last week when the Economist announced not just the death of books, but proved it by the death of bookcases. In particular Billy, a classic IKEA item of furniture that has been ...

CHANCES are you’ve owned one of these Ikea products. There are 60 million of them out there. And they’ve helped change our economy. Tim Harford tells the extraordinary story of Ikea’s Billy bookcase ...

If there’s a single item in IKEA’s catalog that encapsulates the brand, it’s likely the BILLY bookcase. This budget-friendly shelf has long been a staple of first apartments, but it’s versatile enough ...

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 ...