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Ikea’s new inflatable chair doesn’t look like an inflatable chair

TechnologyApril 23, 20261 min readAttributed summary
Ikea’s new inflatable chair doesn’t look like an inflatable chair
Ikea shared a sneak preview of three pieces from a new experimental collection, set to be fully revealed at an annual company event on May 13th. One of the pieces is an inflatable chair that looks lik
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A person sits in an inflatable green chair designed by Ikea. The PS 2026 easy chair is made from two fabric-wrapped air chambers with a steel frame. | Image: Ikea

Ikea shared a sneak preview of three pieces from a new experimental collection, set to be fully revealed at an annual company event on May 13th. One of the pieces is an inflatable chair that looks like a far cry from the cheap and lumpy inflatable furniture popularized in the '90s.

This isn't the first time Ikea's designers have experimented with inflatable furniture. The Ikea Museum website has an entire page dedicated to what it calls an "idea that fell flat." In 2000 the furniture maker introduced its inflatable Rolig easy chair and Innerlig sofa but they were expensive and suffered from leaky valves, resulting in both pieces slowly defl …

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