So, is white the new ... black?

Nice stuff - thanks for sharing!

Some of this stuff is in the stores already. I bought that wall mounted white lamp in Feb or March. That bendy lamp has been around a while. And that sink is just a smaller version of an existing one, with same accessories (looked at ithe larger one last weekend, actually). I don't see a lot that's new. Or exciting.

i like the LEDET. too bad TRAL only takes halogen bulbs.

I have yet to visit an IKEA store, but it's on my "to-do very soon" list!

"Improving life, one room at a time."

Arrrrg. That is just dreadful.

"Marketing" people, here are three super-stale taglines to avoid:

"Got BLANK"
"Give the gift of BLANK"
"...one BLANK at a time"

very nice post! thanks for bringing the scoop to those of us that haven't been in the stores for awhile. i, for one, am excited by the new merchandise regardless if some of it has been in the stores for awhile. time to plan a trip to IKEA!

I wish the salt and pepper shakers were very large candelabras. Thanks for the post.

I just bought the LEDET table lamp for my guest bedroom! I absolutely love it. And yes, bring on the white!

Someone made a pretty cool looking coffee table with those brown pepper mills - it was posted at IKEA Hacker.

Does anyone know when the new Ikea catalog comes out?

love ikea and happy that they are going green, but what about all the toxins in their furniture?

The salt/pepper mills are difficult to use, but they look great.

None of these itrems looks new to me, and my Ikea is under construction - it hasn't stocked new items in quite a while.

The under counter trash sorting bins are waaay overdue. Three cheers for Ikea for making the alternative manifest.

That sink may be perfect for me - does anyone know it's name?

Thanks for the post! For everyone who says, "Bah, old news!", there's someone like me who says, "Yay! Haven't been to IKEA in a long time."

Sink is smaller version of Lillangen:
http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/20148331

(And I still maintain that there's nothing terribly exciting about seeing Trofast storage...)

I want a catalog! I'm excited and I was just at IKEA last weekend. lol

The Ludvig desk looks like it would work really well in a hallway or as a landing strip.

The new stuff is always trickled into the stores in the six months or so prior to the new catalog coming out, so if you visit IKEA regularly you will have seen a lot of it already.

I saw the new sliding glass doors for PAX wardrobes recently adn thought they looked kinda cheap. The metal strips are thin and glossy white (and one other finish, either black or silver) and are too reminiscent of other low-end stuff that's out there. Disappointing.

I like the lamps, though.

I have the large version of that sink (different tap, but the same idea). It is wonderful. Looks great and works even better. Great value for the dollars.

They are coming to Bangkok soon... Great for city living I am not sure for at the beach though. What do you think see http://www.oriental-living.net/interior-design-project

My mouth is watering. I may have to treat myself to a 99.- breakfast and shop this saturday!

I sort of can't believe that you're flattered they stole your tagline, tweaking it to make it sound lamer...

Shouldn't it be Sneak PEEKS 2011 since
they are showing off the 2011 catalog?

t3d - ha! good call on the typo!

I am with some of the comments here - not sure why these products are new and notable. We've seen most of them already.
I have some of those folding storage boxes for work. I want more.

I'm excited for the new stuff, even if it's not all totally 100% new. I don't have the time or energy to keep up with the thousands of items stocked at Ikea so it will mostly all look "new" to me anyway, or at least it will look nice, and that's really all I care about. Does it matter if it's not technically new if it's still a good item? I'd say no.

maxwell, if in AT's marketing you decided to use a "variation" of one of IKEA's marketing lines, i have a hunch they would be feeling more litigious than flattered. not saying you should necessarily feel the same, but the history of corporate appropriations of the creativity of the "little guy" is long and not something, in my opinion, one should happy with.

I bought the collapsible storage boxes a few weeks ago. They were apart of their big sale. I think they were around half off. I just moved, and my new apartment has a single tiny draw in the bathroom, so I needed a way to store most of my stuff in the linen closet. Two of the boxes fit perfectly side by side on a shelf. So now I have a box for hair care, and a box for skin care (or all over body) . Works perfectly!

The Ludvig desk has so many possibilities! Small flat panel TV stand. Plant stand. As slowdown said, great for a landing zone in a small entry. I wonder if there are more colors...

t3d: that seems to be par for the course, these days.

I've seen all of this stuff before in the last year just the desk and the last two lamps look new. Could it be that Rome's IKEA gets things before everyone else?

Those salt and pepper shakers have been out for-ever! I never got why people would mill salt until I moved to a high-humidity climate where all the salt cakes into a solid block -no matter how many grains of arborio rice you add to the shaker!

Catalogs come out, typically, in early October. I love Ikea, but I only have a few items as I try to mix things up. The thing I like most about them is I don't have to pay design school snob ego prices. I can see those candle stick going for $400 each... by some dude named Skift, who still lives with his mom and lives on Paxel.

And I'm not thrilled with the curly fry lightbulbs that are so lethal with mercury that if you break one, you have to evacuate the room immediately. And they have to be properly disposed of, like nuclear waste... is that what that "green" stuff is?

Have seen everything already here in Belgium.. :(

RIP incandescent bulbs. :(

I guess how "new" an item is depends on which store you go to. Each time I go to my Ikea (College Park, MD) - like once a month!! - it seems like I always find something new. Like this ceiling lamp I discovered earlier this month:

http://www.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/90147465

Anyone bought this and have any recommendations/comments about it?

It is so pretty, so modern with a flirty edge to it. Alas, it may be too large for any of my rooms...

booooooring, stale, cheap, generic, sterile crap. whether it's new or old ikea, it all looks the same.

also, ikea is the antithesis of so-called "green" from the toxic materials they use, to the container ships they line the ocean with, to the fact that their furniture falls to pieces if you sneeze too close to it.

buy local and don't buy disposable non-biodegradable furniture.

@maileenrv, we purchased that light a couple of months ago for our daughter's room. It IS huge, and it's perfect for the space we have (11" ceiling, modern wood/white room for a young girl). Installation was easy. We've got the light on a dimmer switch and in the evening, with a darkened room and a dimmed bulb, the individual 'florets' have a lovely golden glow from within. It's one of our favorite IKEA purchases.

Weird. Most of this stuff has been out for nearly a full year already, at least in the NYC-area stores. I'm glad I didn't bother attending this "preview".

I really like that last table lamp! Thank you.

"love ikea and happy that they are going green, but what about all the toxins in their furniture?"
posted by zoo on July 22nd 2010 at 2:21pm
"love Ikea" too, love zoo's comments. Went to Ikea, Sydney last week and whole "green" commitment is great - then at home was removing the sticky labels on some glasses, bowls and dishes, which enraged me because I had to boil water to remove labels and use cleaning chemicals to remove glue from my purchases - water is really precious in drought-plagued Australia, and I hate sticky labels, which are hard to remove.

That floor lamp is a little "Cat in the Hat."

We used Ikea all over our place. Our entire kitchen is Ikea, but we mixed it carefully and knew when to stop. We also altered surfaces that were the least expensive at ikea to get the look we wanted.

http://www.designspongeonline.com/2010/06/sneak-peek-susan-and-william-brinson.html

The salt & pepper mills have been around for years... at least in Europe.

"Tiny stylish sink & tap that looks like a high end Dornbracht!"

This is the scary side of Ikea. Ripping off the work of other artists with a slight modification here or there. Probably not paying a cent in royalty either.

I saw a few of these products in IKEA Brooklyn for the first time several months ago (Svarva lamp, pepper mills). I hope they'll actually sell some brand new items.

This shows that ikea are not t all committed to a greener future: way too much plastic, cheap quality, disposable design for people addicted to consumerism.

I have open shelving in my kitchen and bohlman wash tubs make great storage bins. the matching colander and dish rack are pretty handy too.

I have the pepper mill and it's great! perfectly usable everyday, looks great on the counter and makes for a pretty cool conversation piece at dinner parties.

Just go to http://www.cargotaxiny.com/Ikea_shopping.html
and get IKEA furniture delivered and assembled tomorrow. Create your shopping list and enjoy your day