Flatpack Empire

Last year more than 900 million people in 49 countries visited an IKEA store spending more than £34 billion.

In a new three-part series for the BBC, cameras go behind the scenes of the iconic Swedish retailer, whose founder, Ingvar Kamprad, died last month. In the first episode, we see how IKEA is starting to open up its design headquarters to outside influences. Tom Dixon, the ‘enfant terrible’ of British design, has been invited to collaborate on a new bed-sofa – but with deadlines looming and the world’s furniture press watching, neither he nor IKEA fully agree what the product should be.

Tuesday, BBC2, 9pm