Meanwhile, Ikea’s new flexible floor lamp marks the Swedish brand’s first collaboration with designer Lex Pott, who wanted to create a “lamp that bends,” and did so by inserting 45-degree swivel points into the light’s stand to fashion a metal lamp that transforms from an uplighter to a spotlight to a floor or reading light. Mikael Axelsson, who designed Ikea’s excellent new blowup chair, has also created another of our favorite pieces from PS 2026: a stool with a ratchet-toothed construction inspired by simple woodworking tools acting as a low-tech height adjustment mechanism that is also delightfully and unapologetically analog. As with his inflatable chair, Axelsson enlisted his four daughters to strength-test various prototypes to nail the lever system, and he found that the design’s elementary nature only encouraged his children to use it more. Wihlborg also designed a whimsical bedside table from pine that draws direct inspiration from traditional birdhouses, an idea that supposedly came to Wihlborg as he strolled through his garden. The table, with its familiar birdhouse hole on the front, hides …