Flatpack Empire

For the first time in the company’s 70-year history, IKEA has opened the doors to our cameras with exclusive access to stores, warehouses, test-labs and design-studios. Throughout 2017 we followed the daily challenges of designers, product developers, store managers and suppliers – filming around the world, from Sweden to India, China and Jordan.

‘… brilliantly revealing. When this kind of documentary series is done well, as Flatpack Empire is … they provide endless accidental pleasures’ – Alison Graham, The Radio Times

‘Flatpack Empire is an unexpectedly intriguing peek behind the blue and yellow curtain…strangely compelling viewing’ – Natalie Golding, Tellybinge

‘When the staff of the Sheffield store visit the Ikea headquarters ‘to understand the cultures and the values we live by’, it starts to sound less like a furniture shop and more like a flatpack cult’ – Sam Wollaston, The Guardian