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IKEA's nomenclature conventions name upholstered furniture after places in Sweden. The Klippan sofa is named after Klippan Municipality in Southern Sweden. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Klippan was developed by IKEA's product developer and head of design Lars Engman and designer Noboru Nakamura. [ 3 ]
Between 1905 and 1947, Coopersmith filed over 30 patents for mechanical parts of sofa beds, mattresses, and mattress manufacturing machinery. In 1925, he took out a patent for the sofa bed, the precursor of the modern-day pullout sofa. William Lawrence Murphy took out a patent for making "In-A-Dor bed", which is known as a "Murphy bed" today ...
The first stores outside Sweden were opened in Norway (1963) and Denmark (1969). [23] The stores spread to other parts of Europe in the 1970s, with the first store outside Scandinavia opening in Switzerland (1973), followed by West Germany (1974), [23] Japan (1974), Australia, Hong Kong (1975), Canada (1976), [24] Singapore and the Netherlands (1978). [25]
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The IKEA Catalogue (US spelling: IKEA Catalog; Swedish: Ikea-katalogen) was a catalogue published annually by the Swedish home furnishing retailer IKEA. First published in Swedish in 1951, [ 1 ] the catalogue was considered to be the main marketing tool of the company and, as of 2004, consumed 70% of its annual marketing budget. [ 2 ]
A Murphy bed (also known as a pull-down bed, fold-down bed, or wall bed) is a bed that is hinged at one end to store vertically against the wall, or inside a closet or cabinet. Since they often can be used as both a bed or a closet, Murphy beds are multifunctional furniture .