GERMANY – IKEA has received seven Red Dot Awards for the Symfonisk WiFi bookshelf speaker, Brusen outdoor sofa, Omtänksam table, Svallet work lamp, Fokusera extractor hood, Finsmakare forced air oven and Finsmakare microwave combi oven.

Red Dot Award is an internationally organized competition which reviews the best products of the year.

“We are both happy and proud that IKEA has received these Red Dot Awards. They not only put the spotlight on great IKEA products, they also tell us that our design philosophy, working with Democratic Design enables good design for the many people. Regardless if it´s about designing a lamp, sofa, kitchen appliances, table or speaker, we can accomplish great design quality and results when taking form, function, quality, sustainability and affordability into consideration” says Evamaria Rönnegård, Design Manager at IKEA of Sweden.

This year, more than 5,500 products were submitted and the products entered were assessed individually by an independent and international jury of experts. The Red Dot Award is one of the world’s largest international product competitions.

All the awarded IKEA products will be presented in the Red Dot Design Museum, the largest museum for contemporary design and the awards ceremony will take place in Essen in July 2019.

Red Dot Award, founded in 1955, is one of the most respected international design competitions in the world and organized by the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen, Germany.