Here’s a number to kick things off: 780. That’s three articles a day, five days a week, 52 weeks a year—a guesstimate of the stories Business of Home will have published over the course of 2022. That’s a lot of words—but sometimes it’s helpful to cut right to the numbers.
To capture the moment, we collected stats, dollar signs and figures from around the design world. Collectively, they paint a picture of an industry transitioning from three chaotic-but-lucrative years into an uncertain (yet hopeful) future.
The percent that Ikea raised prices on key pieces.
in October, Retail Week found that the Swedish giant had hiked prices as much as 80 percent on key merchandise in the UK market, raising the cost of items like the Jokkmokk dining table (which skyrocketed from 99 pounds to 179 pounds over the past year). Although the increases were specific to the UK, Ikea’s British