"Electing Lamino Furniture of the Century was, in my opinion, a wise choice. The chair is a piece of furniture that would actually fit like a glove with the IKEA company policy. Every piece of furniture we make must have three things, it must be suitable for production, be functional and have a good shape. And the Lamino chair has all of that."

“Lamino is like a key, an entrance into time, and to the designer Yngve Ekström. Lamino was never institutionalized, that is, it was not found in public settings such as hospital waiting rooms and corporate lobbies. Therefore, it became synonymous with home environment and coziness. In addition, Lamino is affordable, it is Swedish and it proved to be trendy even fifty years after its debut. Now, a few years later, Lamino appears as a very well-known, clear and visible part of Swedish modernism, a symbol.”

“The Lamino chair is typical of its time, i.e. the middle of the last century. It reflects a design language that existed during the 40s and 50s, when bentwood was widely used. You could probably claim that after Yngve Ekström and Bruno Mathsson there hasn't been much innovation in bentwood. A fundamental component of the work as a furniture designer is craftsmanship, and you’ll find that in Lamino. Behind the image of a neat curve you can see something else, the traces of people who knew how to work with wood.”