Ikea catalog from 1965
Here's some shots of the 1965 Ikea catalog, which advertised itself as the world's most printed book after the Bible (I think Mao's Little Red Book actually held that honor in 1965). Some lovely stuff here -- wonder if they saved the patterns?
IKEA Catalog anno 1965 (via Kottke)
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In other news, Ikea has been around sine the 1960's!
me want some HUGO !!!
love those 60ies designs ... IKEA .. bring some of them back!
In other news, awesomeness about to be dealt a heavy blow with a simple typeface change! http://missom.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/verdana-is-ikeas-font-of-the-futura/
Honestly, it really hasn't changed much. Or at least they've brought back a lot of '60s style elements. Interesting. If you had asked me yesterday, I would have guessed Ikea was founded in the '90s.
Bummer about the typeface changing, though. Seems unnecessary. I really make strong associations with fonts, as I assume many do.
Dear Cory,
"Here are some shots of the 1965 IKEA catalog..."
Pedantically yours,
Little John
We're getting an Ikea in Winnipeg.. it's like the Second Coming for us. Land development at the city's traditional shopping/sports area has ground to a halt. Our old NHL arena got razed and has been a field of weeds for years. Even though the Mayor's best friend, who got the land for a song, promised up & down new retail would get built within months of the demo.
Across the road, our aged CFL stadium (which should be condemned (A man died a few years ago when he fell down some crumbling steps and went through a railing that was code 50 years ago).. well, one of the family members who has run his dad's once respected communications empire into the ground is promising to build us a new stadium elsewhere in the city if he gets control over the old stadium's land.
These two very significant parcels of land were a developer's wet dream. Not anymore.
Today, you would be stupid to build there, it's the Ikea area that is white-hot.
It's completely changed the focus for developers. In 3 or so years, being next to the big blue building will be THE rage.
The expected windfall from the old stadium site won't finance an outhouse.
So.. yayyyy Ikea....
I think the second-after-the-bible thing didn't apply back in 1965, it's something someone's claimed about it in more recent years after they went international. And it's probably urban legend anyway...
So, were type geeks up in arms when Ikea dropped the font in the above catalog for Futura? Were they all aghast that in a mere 40-ish years, an Ikea catalog could be confused for a Wes Anderson novelization?
A lot of people had the chair on the left, it was comfy. For some reason though, it was always that butt-ugly olive green?