IKEA and Teenage Engineering announce FREKVENS, a collaborative line designed to get your party started right.

You’re going to have to wait a year from now, but IKEA has made their intentions clear for 2019: that’s when they officially get into the business of “facilitating your party”. What does that exactly mean" According to the furniture giant’s Instagram and Vimeo accounts, the FREKVENS (“frequency”) line will “furnish” your festivities with a line of portable and wireless speakers and LED lighting some time in February 2019.

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The FREKVENS collection is a collaborative effort with the colorfully strange music gear synth lovers over at Teenage Engineering, a Swedish company dedicated to immensely fun interactive and exploratory music machines. Here’s an example of what they’re all about:
The resulting collection of portable (and likely wireless) audio speakers and LED light boxes clearly evokes the spirit of those colorfully creative mod years of the 1960s, where audio systems like the Brionvega RR 126 designed by architects Pier Giacomo and Achille Castiglioni ruled audiophile aspirations for the living room, while revolutionary small portable music players like the Grundig Phono Boy designed by Mario Bellini reshaped the industrial design of sound for the “music anywhere” lifestyle that’s be...