They bring select designs back ALL the time. What do you mean?

Here is just one example (with historic catalog images included): https://www.ikea.com/global/en/stories/our-roots/vintage-ike...

Some would be hard for them to make at a reasonable price today and they wouldn't sell in big numbers at a higher price.

Adam Savage recently posted a video about his favorite IKEA cabinet:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLAAxxjM_7U

The drawers have box joints which is something I can't imagine IKEA of today doing.

It's on page 311 of their 1997 catalog FYI.

Good housekeeping wrote as recently as 2023 that ikea kitchen cabinets used dovetail joinery.[1] But this runs counter to my and everyone I know's experience. Not sure how/why they could write that.

[1]https://www.aol.com/best-kitchen-cabinet-brands-according-19...

Every single Ikea kitchen furniture unit I've worked with has been flat pack, made of chipboard and assembled with these bolts that attach to a sort of a worm screw (edit: cam dowel lock nut), and some dowels, maybe a few screws. Not a single sheet of real wood or plywood, no dovetail or finger joints.

Yes the cams is how ikea put drawers together in just about everything. Its a pretty cool and good solution. It's just not a box joint

The only reason they wouldn't sell a drawer with a box joint today is because they wouldn't be able make the box flat enough. They certainly use even more complex joints even today.

> They certainly use even more complex joints even today.

IKEA does? What's an example?