Ikea's New Blow-Up Chair Was Tested by Cats

Ikea's New Blow-Up Chair Was Tested by Cats

Part of the new PS 2026 collection, it's taken the Swedish company 26 years to finally nail inflatable furniture.

Ikea’s New Blow-Up Chair Was Tested by Cats

A blow-up chair? Ikea has been here before. It attempted to make inflatable furniture in the mid-1990s, when designer Jan Dranger came to the Swedish company with a revolutionary idea to solve one of its biggest challenges: how to squish sofas into its preferred flat-pack format, simplifying transport and cutting costs. It sounded like the perfect solution. Made from durable and recyclable polyolefin plastic, the chair and sofa designs could be …