IKEA’s new designer collection is home office heaven

Meanwhile, IKEA’s new flexible floor lamp marks the Swedish brand’s first collaboration with designer Lex Bott, who wanted to create a ‘bend lamp’, which he did by inserting 45-degree rotating dots into the light holder to create a metal lamp design that transforms from uplight to spotlight to floor lamp or reading lamp.

Mikael Axelsson, who designed Ikea’s excellent new chair, has created another of our favorite pieces from PS 2026: a chair with a ratchet-tooth construction inspired by simple woodworking tools that serves as a low-tech height adjustment mechanism that’s also delightfully and unapologetically analog. As with his inflatable chair, Axelson enlisted his four daughters to test the strength of different prototypes to stabilize the lever system, and found that the elementary nature of the design encouraged his children to use it more.

Wihlborg also designed a whimsical pine bedside table that draws direct inspiration from traditional birdhouses, an idea that supposedly came to Wihlborg while wandering around his garden. The table, with the familiar birdhouse opening at the front, hides a practical storage space behind the folding door, which reuses that birdhouse hole as an opening handle.

If you’re looking to outfit your home office in budget style, the kit includes a Wihlborg four-seat folding table or desk, designed to be sturdy enough for everyday use, but folding flat when needed via a few turns of the signature large red wing screws.

Wihlborg also designed a pink metal mesh and glass-door cabinet with adjustable legs and shelves, a cable outlet for integrated lighting, and holes in the handles so they can be locked. Bot added elegance to the office with a powder-coated metal organizing cart oddly reminiscent of a wedding cake. Color-matched wheels mean this machine can be moved with you as you move around workstations.

Krupińska also created another WIRED favorite, a powder-coated steel and aluminum table clock that looks more like a submarine’s periscope — perfect for sitting at that foldable flat desk and making sure you’re not late for your next meeting.

It was in the early 1990s when IKEA decided it wanted to return to its roots and the aesthetic of Scandinavian simplicity. The result was 1995 IKEA PSthe first of a collection of intermittently recurring pieces at low prices but with an added design flair. The 2026 release is the tenth release for PS.