We looked into all 3,500 couches featured in IKEA catalogues from 1960 to 2021: European interiors became increasingly muted, and noticeably greyer, in the 2010s. But design trends rarely last forever.
Just as the beige 1980s gave way to the bold patterns of the 1990s, IKEA is now reviving long-forgotten designs from its archives.
A data story by Toon Vos.