IKEA
SOFA BED, "Impala", Gillis Lundgren for IKEA, 1972.
Length 205, height 54, depth in total 104 cm.
Minor wear, colour loss, front crossbar with crack/damage.
Literature
"STAFFAN: Personally, I´m impressed with the magnificent Impala sofa.
GILLIS: Ingvar and I made a bet. Ingvar said Impala would only sell 5 pieces. He was really sceptical. We wagared a bottle of whiskey. The sofa turned out to be a bestseller, and was manufactured in Skillingaryd by the brothers Granstrand. Ingvar slunk in dragging that whiskey bottle. But Impala was already discontinued by the next year - it was just too expensive to make."
Ur: Staffan Bengtsson, "IKEA - the book", Arvinius Förlag AB, 2010, s 20, 21.
Modellen även avbildad i mittuppslag, sid 14, 15.
Designer
IKEA is one of the world's biggest furniture companies. It was founded in 1943 by Ingvar Kampard. In the auction world it is primarily IKEA's specially designed series that are sold. The acclaimed 18th-century furniture series with names like "Regnaholm," "Ekolsund," and "Meunier." Other furniture designed by renowned designers such as Verner Panton, Karin Mobring, Eva and Peter Moritz and Bengt Ruda are commonly found on the auction market.
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