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An IKEA Billy bookshelf. Billy (stylised as BILLY) is a bookcase sold by the Swedish furniture company IKEA. It was developed in 1979 by the Swedish designer Gillis Lundgren, and IKEA have sold over 140 million units of the bookcases worldwide. Its popularity and global spread has led to its use as a barometer of relative worldwide price levels.
The system is in wide use globally, partly owing to IKEA using some of its elements (principally the 32 mm shelf support holes) in its furniture. Characteristics are the columns of 5 mm holes on 32 mm centers. In addition to the 32 mm standard, there are other but less frequently used systems (System 25, ip20 etc.).
In rooms entirely devoted to the storage of books, such as libraries, they may be permanently fixed to the walls and/or floor. [1] A bookcase may be fitted with glass doors [2] that can be closed to protect the books from dust or moisture. Bookcase doors are almost always glazed with glass, so as to allow the spines of the books to be read. [3]
A shelf file is a cabinet designed to accommodate folders with tabs on the side rather than on the top. The cabinet has no drawers, only shelves. Some shelf files come with doors that recede into the cabinet. These cabinets are typically 12 inches (300 mm) or 18 inches (460 mm) deep, for letter or legal size folders respectively.
Gillis Lundgren (26 August 1929 – 25 February 2016) was a Swedish furniture designer and the fourth employee of IKEA. He designed the Billy bookcase of which over 60 million have been produced. [1] [2] [3] [4]
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