The classic Lovbacken coffee table is part of the Gratulera vintage collection.
It all started with a burning entrepreneurial spirit and a clear goal: to offer affordable furniture to people. Today, Ikea is the world’s biggest home furnishing retailer but it began as a small mail order business based in Smaland province, south of Sweden, 75 years ago.
When he was just five years old, Ikea founder Ingvar Kamprad was already selling matches to his neighbours. Then, when he was 17, he started Ikea as a mail order business in 1943.
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