This article first appeared on RTL.de.
Quite a few couples face a relationship test when they go together to the well-known Swedish furniture store with the four letters. As much as many love it, others hate it. Nevertheless, there is at least one piece of the furniture giant in almost every German household.
If you are one of them, you should take a close look now. You can really make money with old furniture from Ikea. In England alone, various pieces from the popular furniture store are selling for thousands of pounds more than they originally cost. Perhaps you should also look again to see what treasures are still hidden in your home. We show you which ones are particularly in demand.
While clocks in IKEA stores in England sell for just £1.50, Hlynur Vagn Atlason’s Tunö grandfather clock in the Memphis design style currently costs £1,139.89 on eBay, the equivalent of around 1,300 euros.
The most expensive offering is a set of wicker chairs, the Mats Theselius Rattan Chairs, priced at nearly £2,000. A similar looking set with an additional table retails for £229, an increase of 773 per cent.
Another set of dining chairs you could buy in stores in the 1990s now retails for a whopping £745.
A pair of swivel chairs from 2004 are currently being offered for £800 on the auction site, a price increase of 196 per cent. Because current swivel chairs of this type are available on the site for just 270 pounds.
But not only furniture and larger objects bring money, but also glasses. A set of Forhoja glasses is currently for sale on eBay for £148.59.
The Plagg wardrobe was designed by Tord Björklund and sold at IKEA in 1989. The multicolored clothes rack now retails for £195, despite costing a fraction of its current price back then.
But even in this country you can make a lot of money with Swedish products. A postmodern Smith coat stand by Rutger Andersson for IKEA from the 1980s is being traded for a whopping 465 euros. If you are interested you can purchase a vintage arc lamp Prolog by Tord Björklund for 320 euros.
Ted Net metal folding chairs by Niels Gammelgaard which, according to the supplier, have “marginal signs of wear!” can be picked up for currently 300 euros.
The Fridene armchair, designed by Carina Bengs, is currently up for sale on eBay in the UK for £800. Here you can have the armchair on the sales platform for 310 euros.
Incidentally, the trend goes back to the IKEA platform “Billy For Sale”, which was named after the most popular of all shelves, the Billy bookshelf. Billy For Sale was founded in November 2020 by artist Harry Stayt, who made it his mission to collect vintage IKEA furniture. The platform aims to preserve certain discontinued IKEA designs from the past five decades. The focus is on postmodern designs from the late 1980s and early 1990s.
