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Is there a reason IKEA doesn't bring back all of the classic designs from time to time?

They bring select designs back ALL the time. What do you mean?

Here is just one example (with historic catalog images included): https://www.ikea.com/global/en/stories/our-roots/vintage-ike...

Some would be hard for them to make at a reasonable price today and they wouldn't sell in big numbers at a higher price.

Adam Savage recently posted a video about his favorite IKEA cabinet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLAAxxjM_7U

The drawers have box joints which is something I can't imagine IKEA of today doing.

It's on page 311 of their 1997 catalog FYI.

The only reason they wouldn't sell a drawer with a box joint today is because they wouldn't be able make the box flat enough. They certainly use even more complex joints even today.

> They certainly use even more complex joints even today.

IKEA does? What's an example?

https://www.ikea.com/se/en/p/uppdatera-storage-box-light-bam...

Good housekeeping wrote as recently as 2023 that ikea kitchen cabinets used dovetail joinery.[1] But this runs counter to my and everyone I know's experience. Not sure how/why they could write that.

[1]https://www.aol.com/best-kitchen-cabinet-brands-according-19...

Every single Ikea kitchen furniture unit I've worked with has been flat pack, made of chipboard and assembled with these bolts that attach to a sort of a worm screw (edit: cam dowel lock nut), and some dowels, maybe a few screws. Not a single sheet of real wood or plywood, no dovetail or finger joints.

Yes the cams is how ikea put drawers together in just about everything. Its a pretty cool and good solution. It's just not a box joint

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