GoKawiilNow that the hubbub of the cat-tested blow-up chair has calmed down, Ikea has taken the wraps off the rest of its latest PS Collection (which stands for Post Scriptum). Consisting of 44 pieces, including the viral inflatable PS 2026 Easy Chair, the furniture brand says the theme of the 2026 PS Collection is playful functionality.
The new PS Collection (available in stores from May 14, then online from May 22) has not one but two options for accommodating impromptu sleepovers. First is a stylish chair-bed by Matilda Lindstam Nilsson that comes in red and white colorways.
This retro armchair, which looks like it might just as well have come out of a 1970s Ikea collection, transforms from an upright single seat to a recliner for lounging, and then into a full-length bed complete with pocket springs for “mattress-level support.” For those in search of roomier berths, Ola Wihlborg has designed a sofa-bed with pocket springs and mattress foam that can sleep two.
The chair bed. Courtesy of Ikea
The two products from the collection that previewed at Milan Design Week in April, alongside the Easy Chair, were a rocking wooden bench and a flexible lamp. The solid pine rocking bench with its curved base, designed by Marta Krupińska, perhaps best exemplifies this playful theme, though WIRED would have to try it out first to see what sitting on it at a dining table for a family meal might be like. Late-night, post-bar drinks might be amusing.
Apparently, the bench's rockers proved an early design challenge as they needed to be strong enough to hold adults. Initial wooden attempts failed, with one being completely flattened as Krupińska and a product engineer tried it. They tried reinforcing the wood with metal, but this meant the bench could not be recycled easily. Eventually, a method of splitting wood beams and then gluing them back together with the grain reversed on itself yielded rockers that were stronger than the metal-enhanced version.