TIME Style and Design: Icon: IKEA

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Many of Ikea's best-selling pieces throughout the past six decades are still considered classics, including Marian Grabinski's modular MTP bookcase, top. Below, in 1965 an impatient throng awaits the opening of Ikea's 493,000-sq.-ft. flagship store in Stockholm. The building's circular design is inspired by the Guggenheim Museum in New York City


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