Ikea catalog through the years.

[stephm0188]

www.buzzfeed.com/leonoraepstein/the-ikea-catalog-evolution-1951-2013

LOL at 1986.

[mrsemilys]

I had no idea IKEA had been around that long!

[TBM]

Dec 20, 2013 16:32:15 GMT -5 mrsemilys said:

I had no idea IKEA had been around that long!

They have only been in the US since the mid 80s, and they were few and far between.

[teeah22]

Wait, is that not the same wingback chair in the 1951 catalog that was "new" this year?

[mrs.jacinthe]

I'd like to move into the 1955 house. That is all. That blue couch/chair! /swoon

[munkii]

Dec 20, 2013 17:08:37 GMT -5 teeah22 said:

Wait, is that not the same wingback chair in the 1951 catalog that was "new" this year?

Yes. Well, they reintroduced it last year in navy and gray. This year they introduced it in orange. Last year's catalog even had a little story about it.

[teeah22]

Dec 20, 2013 18:42:10 GMT -5 munkii said:

Dec 20, 2013 17:08:37 GMT -5 teeah22 said:

Wait, is that not the same wingback chair in the 1951 catalog that was "new" this year?

Yes. Well, they reintroduced it last year in navy and gray. This year they introduced it in orange. Last year's catalog even had a little story about it.

Ah I didn't realize they called it a reintroduction.  I was just thinking "hey, that looks just like that chair everyone was going nuts over."

[rugbywife]

Dec 20, 2013 17:08:37 GMT -5 teeah22 said:

Wait, is that not the same wingback chair in the 1951 catalog that was "new" this year?

That was what I was thinking.  There are many things in the catalogues that don't really look that different over the years, when you consider it.