The IKEA PS 2026 collection, the tenth edition of IKEA’s most experimental design line, is the kind of release that has us refreshing the website like we’re trying to snag Hilary Duff tickets. And after what happened with the Gustaf Westman collection (we don’t talk about it), we are not sleeping on this.

For the uninitiated: IKEA PS has been around since 1995 and is essentially where the brand lets its hair down. Twelve independent designers are given a brief to make things that are functional but never boring, and the results are always far more interesting than your standard flat-pack offering. This year, the theme is playful functionality and the pieces certainly are delivering on that promise. Included are everyday items that rock, fold, rotate and inflate, earning their place in a small home by doing more than one thing.

The floor lamps were what first caught my eye. The IKEA PS 2026 floor uplighter ($69.99), available in blue, burgundy and creamy yellow, was designed by Rotterdam-based Lex Pott with a seriously clever trick: it rotates manually into three different lighting positions (spotlight, reading light, and uplighter). The dark red colourway is giving mid-century modern energy and honestly, the idea of one sitting on a bedside as a reading light is already on my radar.

Then there’s the IKEA PS 2026 table clock in red ($59.99), a reimagining of the iconic 1995 PS clock, now designed as a bent, periscope-like tube that somehow manages to look both retro-futuristic and nautical chic. The red is bold, unexpected and just the kind of thing that makes guests stop mid-conversation to ask where it’s from. Pop it on a bookshelf next to your plants and a stack of coffee table books and try not to feel smug. You interior genius, you.

The IKEA PS 2026 trolley in blue ($79.99) is my quiet star of the collection and honestly, I can’t stop staring at it. Yes, it’s a trolley. And yes, it is absolutely channeling tiered wedding cake in the most delightful, unexpected way. Those stacked circular shelves in that particular shade of powder blue are adorable, but more than the aesthetics, it’s the kind of piece that earns its keep in a small home. Roll it into the kitchen when you need extra prep space, beside the sofa as a drinks trolley, or into the bathroom for towels and toiletries. Boom.

And then there’s the piece that perhaps sums up the entire collection best: the IKEA PS 2026 folding chair in birch ($79.99). When it’s open, it’s a proper chair: solid, architectural, sculptural. When you’re not using it, you hang it on the wall and it becomes a bold Mondrian-esque design piece in its own right. For anyone who entertains and has always felt like folded seating is a bit like glorified deck chairs, this is the answer you’ve been waiting for. Pull it off the wall when guests arrive, fold it back up when they leave.

The broader collection is worth a deep dive too. There’s the coveted IKEA PS 2026 easy inflatable Knäbäck chair in bright green ($159.00) that took designer Mikael Axelsson twenty hand-welded prototypes to perfect (it arrives flat-packed with a foot pump, which is kind of magic), a IKEA PS 2026 3-seat sofa-bed ($799.00) built on proper pocket springs that works as a real bed without looking like one, and an IKEA PS 2026 glass-door cabinet in pink ($299.00) that I would immediately style in a hallway. 

The soft furnishings deserve a mention too: the IKEA PS 2026 cushion cover from $9.99, the IKEA PS 2026 throw in white/multicolour ($29.99) and IKEA PS 2026 pre-cut fabric ($29.99 each) all feature bold expressive motifs by American artist Michelle Armas, alongside two stunning low-pile rugs, the IKEA PS 2026 low pile rug in off-white/red ($299.00) and the IKEA PS 2026 low pile oval rug in green/off-white ($399.00), that ground a room without competing with everything else going on in it.

Basically, if your home has been crying out for more colour, more personality and more pieces that make you smile every time you walk past them, this is the collection you’ve been waiting for.

The IKEA PS 2026 collection will launch exclusively in-store from 4 June 2026 across IKEA Australia and New Zealand, with prices starting from just $4.99. The collection will be available online from 18 June 2026.