Look around your home, your Ikea furniture may be worth its weight in gold. Here are the old pieces of furniture from the Swedish giant that are being sold for a fortune.
Who has never had an Ikea piece of furniture at home? The Swedish giant knows how to conquer generations with its clever, practical and affordable furniture, while offering a design that has left its mark on generations. The brand is celebrating its 80th anniversary and is bringing out iconic furniture that has left its mark on its history. The brand has released many collections in collaboration with designers, in limited editions. Over the years, some Ikea pieces have become real investments. If you have one of these pieces of furniture or objects at home, you could be sitting on a small fortune.
Some of these pieces are worth a lot of money on the second-hand market today. Now is the time to see if you have any of these pieces of furniture or objects at home. Among those that have increased in value, we find for example:
- The IMPALA armchair by Gillis Lundgren, launched in 1972 at €37, which recently sold on the second-hand site Selency at the record price of €2,300.
- The vintage GUIDE shelf by Niels Gammelgaard, launched in 1985 at a price of €65, which can now be purchased for €1,629 on the website Design Market.
- The DUETT suspension by Bent Gantzel Boysen, launched in 1983 at €8.90 and which is now being resold on the site Selency at 250 €.
- Tord Björklund’s Sky lounge chair, launched in the 1980s, now sells for between €700 and €3,000 depending on its condition and platform.
- The Järpen chair by Niels Gammelgaard, in 1983, was priced between 100 and 500 euros per chair a few weeks ago. But there are many models in circulation, and this model was reissued on the occasion of Ikea’s 80th anniversary, under the name SKÅLBODA. Already sold out online, perhaps it is still available in the store near you.
However, not all Ikea furniture is equal in terms of resale value. Classics like the Billy bookcase or the Kallax shelf, although they sell second-hand, will not experience a price surge. They will resell below their purchase price. But some furniture or objects dating from the 60s to the 2000s have become highly sought-after pieces that can sometimes reach thousands of euros.
Our advice to know if your Ikea furniture will increase in value in the years to come? It must be in very good condition and have been disassembled little or never. Ideally, it should have a slightly vintage look, but above all, be part of a collaboration with a designer. In recent years, two collections have generated a lot of interest among collectors and design lovers. The collaboration with Virgil Abloh in 2019 (MARKERAD) and the one with designer Sabine Marcelis (VARMBLIXT) in 2023 have created unique and limited pieces that could become sought-after collectors’ items in the years to come…