IKEA releases its most extensive Stockholm collection to date, marking 40 years since the series first launched. Stockholm 2025 features 96 new designs, extending across furniture, textiles, lighting, and accessories. The collection returns to IKEA stores and online beginning April 10, offering a wide selection shaped by natural materials, refined construction, and lived-in comfort.
DESIGN
Creative Leader Karin Gustavsson describes the aim of the collection clearly: “a no-compromise kind of collection where every piece tells a story.” IKEA frames Stockholm 2025 not as a seasonal capsule but as a long-term offering rooted in quality. Three Swedish designers Ola Wihlborg, Nike Karlsson, and Paulin Machado, led the development of the line, each bringing their own approach to form, material, and function.
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Two sofas set the tone for Stockholm 2025. Ola Wihlborg designed a wide modular piece with deep proportions and minimal fuss. He wanted a sofa that didn’t require constant adjustment or extra pillows. After 30 prototypes, he landed on a shape that holds up visually and structurally after everyday use. Offered in four colors, including a deep turquoise velvet, the sofa can work as individual modules or as a connected sectional.
Nike Karlsson took a completely different approach. His design avoids foam altogether, using natural latex, coconut fiber, and woven fabric supported by a solid pine frame. The result delivers comfort through construction, not padding. Karlsson also worked with a local pine supplier to bring a higher-grade version of the wood into the collection, addressing misconceptions about pine as a budget option.
Rattan makes a return in several new pieces, including a sliding-door cabinet designed by Karlsson. Woven by hand, the cabinet’s surface carries forward the popularity of Stockholm 2017’s rattan storage. Rattan also appears in the dining chairs and a lounge chair built around a thick frame and topped with a bouclé cushion.
Chairs and tables throughout the collection feature exposed materials and visibly smart construction. Beechwood bent by hand creates arcs in armrests and chair backs, offering strength without bulk. The dining tables, bookshelves, and storage units carry this same balance, simple in form but closely considered in their construction.
Paulin Machado looked to the forest when developing her textile range. The lampshades show leaf and mushroom prints in seasonal color pairings, while handwoven wool rugs feature birch motifs. The rugs come in a range of palettes, greens, greyscale, and black-and-white. Machado also designed patterned merino blankets and pillowcases to bring contrast and texture into everyday settings. “Nature is the best designer,” she says. “Every colour matches beautifully in the natural world.”
The dining pieces extend the collection’s focus on texture and function. Plates and bowls come in glazed stone and porcelain. A group of large vases adds sculptural shape to the table, two in mouth-blown glass and one in ceramic black. Each carries small variations in surface and form. The glass chandeliers include assembly gloves, nodding to the craft involved in even the simplest IKEA instructions.
Stockholm 2025 stays consistent in tone, even while offering variety in object type. Each piece builds on the same principles: material quality, everyday practicality, and long use. Earth tones contrast with bleached pine, and textiles echo the seasons of the Swedish outdoors. While the designs come from three voices, they work together across the home, offering quiet continuity rather than themed rooms.
This ninth edition of Stockholm doesn’t push IKEA into new territory, it draws from what the brand already values. It reaffirms that quality design can remain accessible and that natural materials continue to offer depth and purpose across the home.
