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Ikea Opens NYC Store for Urbanites Who Won’t Assemble Furniture

  • Swedish furniture store opens design studio on Upper East Side
  • Shoppers can plan out a room, then order items for delivery
A living room display at the Ikea Planning Studio in New York, on April 9.Photographer: Marc McAndrews

There are no Swedish meatballs at Ikea’s first store in Manhattan.

Also absent from the quintessential Ikea experience are checkout counters, pallets of votive candles and the end-of-the-maze warehouse experience where shoppers load their purchases into their carts. In fact, there’s nothing to take home at all.