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An IKEA Billy bookshelf. Billy (stylised as BILLY) is a bookcase sold by the Swedish furniture company IKEA. It was developed in 1979 by the Swedish designer Gillis Lundgren, and IKEA have sold over 140 million units of the bookcases worldwide. Its popularity and global spread has led to its use as a barometer of relative worldwide price levels.
IKEA (/ aɪ ˈ k iː ə / eye-KEE-ə, Swedish:), is a multinational conglomerate founded in Sweden [6] [7] that designs and sells ready-to-assemble furniture, household goods, and various related services.
A sliding bookcase is a wooden shelf or cabinet for bound volumes that is designed to move on rollers, a track, hinges, or another mechanism and is typically used to hide the presence of a secret room or space. [1] Sliding bookcases were used in the United States during prohibition to hide rooms or spaces containing liquor. [2]
In rooms entirely devoted to the storage of books, such as libraries, they may be permanently fixed to the walls and/or floor. [1] A bookcase may be fitted with glass doors [2] that can be closed to protect the books from dust or moisture. Bookcase doors are almost always glazed with glass, so as to allow the spines of the books to be read. [3]
A public bookcase opened in 2010 in Vienna, Austria. [5] In Basel, Switzerland, where many coffee shops and other venues host open bookshelves, [6] a public bookcase was unveiled in June 2011. [7] [8] Open bookcases are financed by a wide range of organisations (individuals, foundations, Lions Clubs, civic associations, and so on). [9]
The acronym IKEA is made up of the initials of his name (Ingvar Kamprad) plus those of Elmtaryd, the family farm where he was born, and the nearby village Agunnaryd where he was raised. [ 8 ] [ 11 ] Between the founding of IKEA and his board resignation in 1946, Kamprad was an author.