IKEA has revived its experimental PS collection for the first time in almost 10 years, bringing back a range long associated with more unconventional and exploratory Scandinavian design at accessible prices.

The new edition, unveiled nearly a decade after the last release in 2017, includes 30 products created by 12 designers under what the company describes as a theme of “playful functionality”. According to IKEA, most of the pieces are priced below £100.

The PS line has occupied a distinct place within IKEA’s broader catalogue since it first appeared at the Milan furniture fair in 1995. The name comes from the idea of a postscript — an addition to the company’s standard furniture offering where designers are given greater creative freedom than in the everyday range.

Maria O’Brian, IKEA’s creative leader, said the collection allows designers to move beyond some of the practical constraints that shape mass-market furniture development.

“IKEA PS is where we really want to let our designers go a bit more wild and be a bit more free in their creativity than we might otherwise,” she told Dezeen.

She said the regular product range is designed with broader limitations in mind because of the company’s focus on making products for large numbers of people. The PS collection, by contrast, creates room for experimentation and asks “what if?” more openly during the design process.

Since its launch in the mid-1990s, the collection had typically been refreshed every few years. That cycle stopped after the 2017 edition, making the latest release the first new PS range in close to a decade.

Among the products drawing attention in the new collection are a blow-up armchair, a rocking bench and a height-adjustable stool using a deliberately simple mechanical system intended to encourage interaction.

O’Brian said the central challenge of the latest collection was balancing simplicity with a stronger sense of personality and surprise.

“We wanted to show that simplicity and simple design don’t have to be boring,” she said.

According to IKEA, designers worked to reduce products to their essential forms while still making them feel visually engaging and playful in everyday use.

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The renewed focus on the PS line suggests IKEA is again making space for more experimental work inside a catalogue usually associated with practical, standardised home furnishings. For longtime followers of the collection, the return also reconnects the company with a design platform that has historically been used to test more unusual ideas at scale.