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Seven artists and designers create 22 limited-edition objects in glass, ceramic, wood, steel, and textiles for IKEA’s new art collection.
With KONSTRUNDA, IKEA gave seven artists and designers an unusually open assignment. The resulting collection includes 22 pieces that range from mouth-blown glass and ceramic sculptures to textiles, mirrors, stools, and side tables. KONSTRUNDA means “Art Tour” in Swedish, an appropriate name for a collection that moves through seven very different creative languages. The contributors are Akanksha Deo, Andu Masebo, Emanuele Stamuli, Ingrid Leander, Igor Holtermann, Lisa Hilland, and Lisa Reiser.
London-based designer Andu Masebo works with familiar furniture materials and gives them a heavier, almost exaggerated presence. His glass side table rests inside a chunky welded chrome frame, while two solid wooden blocks can work as stools, side tables, or simply stand as sculptural forms. One is left in raw pine; the other is finished in a saturated blue. Swedish artist Lisa Reiser takes the collection into glass. Her mouth-blown pieces include an undulating green sculpture with an almost gummy appearance and a glossy black vessel whose curved surface changes with the light.
Lisa Hilland also works with pine, one of the materials most closely associated with IKEA. Her solid wood stool has an unexpectedly intricate profile that gives the inexpensive material a completely different character. She also designed a bright orange ceramic sculpture built around a deep arch and a series of flowing ribs. The empty space through its center becomes as prominent as the ceramic itself.
Emanuele Stamuli keeps his pieces graphic. Black and white bands move across a large rug, two ceramic vessels, and a side table, with small irregularities interrupting the geometry. Akanksha Deo takes a more playful route. A highly polished stainless steel bowl looks as though somebody has pushed a thumb into its side. Her stacked wooden figure draws from traditional toys she remembers from India and places a mirrored cube at its center. A long, shaggy blue wall hanging adds another texture to the group. Deo describes the pieces as a family of imperfect characters, objects intended to add a sense of familiarity and company to a room.
For Ingrid Leander and Igor Holtermann, the starting point came from the city outside their window. Caution tape, zebra crossings, and other fragments of street graphics became patterns for cushions and oversized floor pillows. Their floor-length mirror is partly covered by large pink and dark palm trees, turning the reflected room into part of the image.
KONSTRUNDA becomes particularly interesting at IKEA scale. Personal work by individual artists passes through the company’s industrial development and production system, then arrives in stores alongside bookcases, cookware, and flat-pack furniture. A hand-blown glass sculpture, an eccentric ceramic form, or a textile artwork can suddenly become an impulse purchase. IKEA has used collaborations to introduce experimental design to a huge audience before; here, the emphasis shifts squarely toward collecting art for the home.
KONSTRUNDA launched globally on September 1, 2026, as a limited-edition collection.
