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RIP Ikea Fira

By Rain Noe - February 15, 2010

[photo credit: Craftster user Romey14]

Sadly, as of this month Ikea has discontinued the Fira, a handy little set of wooden box drawers that everyone loved customizing. I've got four of them myself, and while they were a pain to assemble--you'll got to nail each individual box together with nails that appear to have been made by nanotechnology--it is an infinitely useful sorting device.

Perhaps because it was such a basic, plain piece of kit, craftspeople, artists and designers would mod these things like crazy, as the internet will attest. Here are a few of our favorite Fira mods:

Flickr user onetomatotwo

Photobucket user ImAScrapbookNut

Damon of Crumley Family

Flickr user Virginia Ricardo

Flickr user rnjetta

Flickr user Karine Imagine

ghostface knittah

Flickr user Blue Cockatoo

To see even more, check out ikeahacker and this Flickr group.

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RIP Ikea Fira

bring back fira

7 years ago

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Please click "like" if you want Ikea to bring back Fira:

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ikea-Bring-Back-Fira/146394498814618
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JOE

9 years ago

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does anyone know where i can buy 2 or 5 more of these boxes?
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Rain Noe

I’m a lapsed industrial designer. I was born in NYC and figured I’d die there, but a few years ago I abandoned New York to live on a farm in the countryside with my wife. We have six dogs.