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LACK side table, white, 55x55 cm

Name: LACK side table, white
Brand: LACK
SKU: 30449908
Price: 449 TRY
Availability: InStock

₺449

304.499.08

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The design of this LACK table makes it easy to use for various needs and to match with other furnishings in your home.

The honeycomb paper construction adds strength to the table while keeping it lightweight. This makes it easier to bring home, place where you like and move around throughout the home.

Easy to assemble.

You can use the table on its own or use it together with the smaller table measuring 35x35 cm in the same series. Place the bigger LACK table over the smaller table and use them as nesting tables.

May be combined with other products in the LACK series. Also matches well with the KALLAX series.

Article Number 304.499.08

How low can the price go?

Vivianne Sjölin, the range coordinator at IKEA, thought that IKEA had too many big, heavy tables made of wood, metal and glass. Vivianne wanted to see nice, little, colourful tables that were easy to place with flexible use, and that customers might buy on impulse, almost like a souvenir.

Back home in Älmhult, Jan Hellzén and Tomas Paulsson were in the samples room talking about tables when Ingvar Kamprad stopped by, pointed at the table and asked the price. Tomas and Jan improvised a price of 298 kronor. Ingvar didn’t like the price, so he suggested that it could be made out of board-on-frame, the same technique as interior doors, and it can’t cost more than 75 kronor. Tomas was familiar with board-on-frame; so when Jan visited the factory, and product development began in earnest.

In 1979, the table came into the range and the price was 78 kronor. LACK was launched in the 1981 catalogue, by which time the price had gone up to 89 kronor. Everyone was happy; apart from Ingvar, who thought the table was far too expensive.

You can still buy the LACK table at IKEA, and at a lower price than the original. Ever cost-conscious, Ingvar Kamprad would probably have been happy with that.

The image is from the 1985 IKEA Catalogue that says: “The table for all your rooms.”

Material

What is constructed board?

We use constructed boards when manufacturing many of our pieces of furniture, such as tables and wardrobes. They are light yet still stable and strong. Each board has a frame made of chipboard, fibreboard or solid wood, while the inside is a honeycomb filling structure made of mostly recycled paper, which is extra durable thanks to its special construction. The board is then covered with a protective paint, foil or veneer depending on the style wanted.