From flat-pack to trendsetters, this is what makes IKEA's design truly iconic, according to a lead designer.

Learn how to pick the most environmentally friendly, ready-to-assemble furniture. Before Ikea became a leading source for house fittings, buying any item of furniture meant hauling it home in a truck, ...

From chairs and chests all the way to large-scale storage systems, the range of flat-pack furniture is astounding. Also known as ready-to-assemble or knock-down furniture, it’s purchased off the shelf ...

Forget about frustrating little wooden pegs, screws, bolts, and head-scratching instructions. The furniture of the future is easy as can be to assemble and disassemble, and it does away with literal ...

If you've ever assembled flat-pack furniture, you'll know it can be more time consuming and difficult than, frankly, it should be. Not so with FoldSmart's flat-packs though. The British firm says ...

Smaller designers have been experimenting with Ikea-style furniture. Three Dwell staffers tried three such brands to see how they really hold up Flat-pack furniture gets a bad rap—it’s often ...

If you have ever built some flat pack furniture, like the furniture you get from Ikea, then you will know what a pain these things are to assemble, will all the screws, bolts and Allen keys. Now ...

You might not've realized it as you groggily rolled out of bed this morning, but you are now living in the future: Roboticists at MIT have created a robot that can autonomously assemble flat-pack IKEA ...

As midcentury Swedish design legend has it, an Ikea designer named Gillis Lundgren jumpstarted the flat-packed furniture trend when he sawed the legs off of a Lövet table to fit it in his car. This ...

[Photo: Mike Massaro] That’s why British architecture firm IF_DO has designed an office building that can be dismantled and fully rebuilt elsewhere, like flat-pack furniture. The $485,000 building is ...