There are some IKEA furniture lines that just never go out of style — and one of those is the BILLY bookcase series. The classic bookcase comes in a variety of sizes and in six natural stains: white, ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Ikea makes a Billy bookcase every three seconds and sells one every five — something the company has been proudly broadcasting for years. Apparently, that’s not fast enough. As the Swedish retailer of ...

Scott helpfully laid out the step-by-step instruction for his bookcase redo so that you can try it yourself. Bessemer shared his thoughts on what to keep in mind before you rethink an IKEA piece. Step ...

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 ...