Decades-old Ikea furniture is being hunted down online like treasure. A whole community wants to set up with it. Where the fascination comes from and how you can find out whether you also have valuable vintage Ikea furniture at home.
Four years ago, Lea Schmihing bought her first rice paper lamp, Vintage Ikea. She now has four from the old Regolit series hanging with her, all of them in organic shapes, the Hamburg native calls them “wavy”. They light up your hallway and living room.
Eight more are waiting in a box. Rice paper, it’s thin, it can break. The 30-year-old knows that, but it would be really annoying. Because one of these lampshades is worth around 200 euros, it used to cost only a few euros at Ikea, oh what: D-Mark.