New Handmade Collection from Ikea

black rattan sofa from the Ikea Viktigt collection

I'm really loving the Ikea collaborations (maybe they'll want to do one with me one day #dreambigordon'tdreamatall) and following on from the fab Ilse Crawford Sinnerlig range, the store has now teamed up with one of Sweden's most well-known glass designers for a new collection.

Ingegerd Råman Ramon is a ceramacist and this handmade collection features a number of pieces made in glass and bamboo. I particularly love this black sofa.

Ingegerd said of her work: "It's a project between the craftsmen and the designer. It has lots of energy. And looking at the objects now – the things we did – for me,  it represents love."

Jutta Viheria, the creative leader for the range, said: "We wanted to add some beautiful, simple and functional products and to learn how to develop her way of working with new materials like natural fibres to see what that could bring us."

The collection will be in store sometime this month (April 2016) but here are a few of the pieces for you to bookmark in advance.

These lampshades are gorgeous aren't they. The black flex makes a feature out of a boring necessity and brings a little more weight to the piece. You know I'm fantatical about details and changing white plastic electric flex to cord wherever possible and this illustrate my point perfectly.

Speaking about her work, Ingegerd said: "Everything I do I do for myself. I am the first customer. You don't need to know that [I] designed it but you need to know that it was done by someone who has taken care. That is what I want people to know."

During the design process the pieces were reduced and reduced wherever possible until just the basic essentials remain. There is no extraneous detail and every detail present brings something to the overall piece.

She added that it also has to be beautiful and I reckon she's nailed that one. On the surface, it's so simple, natural fibres and colour with black for weight and that's it. But look closely at the detail of the lights and that chunky basket above. I had gone off woven baskets in recent years but this might tempt me back. Especially as you know it will be affordable.

The rest of the range includes glasses, carafes and both black and white plates as well as the pieces pictured here. I feel a trip down the yellow brick road coming on.

What do you think of this collection? Do drop into the comment room below.

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