To buy any items, select the quantity you want then "add to cart". Buy IKEA Furniture in New Zealand! We are importing one container each 3 weeks. You also can pre order any items of IKEA products which was not listed in our website. We would like to either deliver to you or you pick up by appointment at: 48, Carr Road, Mt Roskill, Auckland. Monday to Saturday: 10:00am - 4:00pm Postage will be calculated by system automatically while your placing order. Although Zoomly is not affiliated with INTER IKEA SYSTEMS B.V. or the IKEA brand in any way, all our products are genuine IKEA products sourced from IKEA stores. Swedish Furniture is New Zealand’s largest IKEA parallel importer. Proud to offer customers superior service and storage solutions with the widest possible range of IKEA product and premium imported brands. We have more than 1000 items in stock and 2-3 new containers arrive every month. We are not an official IKEA store but we always try to offer reasonable prices to NZ customers.
Ever wonder what those kooky IKEA product names mean? These Västerön stools are named after a tiny island in the Baltic Sea between Sweden and Finland. This table is called Äpplarö. It's a piece of outdoor furniture, so it's also named after a Scandinavian island. The 'Billy' bookcase, beloved of university students and 20-something apartment dwellers, is named after an IKEA employee. Claus Jorstad of Alta, Norway won't soon forget the name of this IKEA stool. It's called 'Marius' and back in September 2016 Jorstad got his testicle caught in one of the holes. Pillowcases, bedsheets and duvet covers are named after plants and flowers. Häxört, shown here, is a type of aromatic herb. IKEA has recently produced a bicycle. Its name, 'Sladda', roughly translates to 'skid' in Swedish Rugs are named after cities and towns. Ådum, for example, is a small village in western Denmark... as well as being a high-pile area rug. Reading and trying to pronounce strange-sounding Swedish words is part of the joy of shopping at IKEA (along with gorging on the Swedish meatballs and rosti at the in-store cafe).
But what most shoppers don't know is that the names of those 12,000-plus products conform to a strict internal logic that offers a peek into Scandinavian culture.At a January product showcase in New York City, IKEA designer Jon Karlsson explained that the company has a dedicated team of product namers, who assign names from a database of Swedish words. And, much like the World Meteorological Organisation's naming of tropical storms, there's a strict convention. Sign up for the weekly READ MORE: * IKEA renames its products after relationship problems * Man gets testicle stuck in IKEA stool * Are you too old for IKEA? Bookcases, for example are named after professional occupations or boys' names. The bestselling Billy bookcase is named after IKEA employee Billy Likjedhal. Outdoor furniture is named after Scandinavian islands: Applaro an island in the Stockholm archipelago and Vasteron is in Aaland. Rugs are named after cities and towns in Denmark or Sweden - like Adum, Stockholm and Silkeborg - while bed sheets, comforters and pillowcases are named after flowers and plants.
Haxort, for example, is an herb in the primrose family. This is the 'Marius' stool. Naked blokes, you'll want to avoid this one. These rules for naming were devised by IKEA's founder Ingvar Kamprad, who struggled with dyslexia and had trouble remembering the order of numbers in item codes.The name IKEA itself is acronym for Ingvar, Kamprad, Elmtaryd (his family's farm) and Agunnaryd (the village in Smaland where he grew up in).To simplify inventory for its 389 stores around the world, the same name is used for a product in every market. The database is culled for words that may have offensive meanings in other languages - though sometimes things fall off the radar. Islands in the Baltic Sea, small villages in Denmark and IKEA employees - all of these are inspiration for product names. A few embarrassing names from the past: 2004's Fartfull children's workbench, the Fartyg ceiling light, and the dotty Stenklover duvet set.Here's a handy list to better understand the cultural meaning behind the immense flat-pack Scandinavian phenomenon that is IKEA:Bathroom articles = Names of Swedish lakes and bodies of water
IKEA names all its bedding after plants and flowers. Häxört or circaea lutetian is an herb in the primrose family. Bed textiles = Flowers and plantsBeds, wardrobes, hall furniture = Norwegian place namesBookcases = Professions, Scandinavian boy's namesBowls, vases, candles = Swedish place names, adjectives, spices, herbs, fruits and berriesBoxes, wall decoration, clocks = Swedish slang expressions, Swedish place namesChildren's products = Mammals, birds, adjectivesDesks, chairs and stools = Scandinavian boy's names (the testicle-snagging stool mentioned above was called 'Marius')Fabrics, curtains = Scandinavian girl's namesGarden furniture = Scandinavian islandsKitchen accessories = Fish, mushrooms and adjectivesLighting = Units of measurement, seasons, months, days, shipping and nautical terms, Swedish place namesRugs = Danish place namesSofas, armchairs, chairs and dining tables = Swedish place namesIf you want even further clarification, you're not the only one. Lars Petrus has compiled a helpful, if incomplete Swedish-to-English dictionary of IKEA product names.