At Edinburgh's Fringe Festival, IKEA's Exhibition Unleashes a Riot of Color — Banana Prints, Broccoli Motifs, and Maximalist Magic

A large showroom with brightly patterned IKEA textiles hung from the ceiling and white display stands with glass cloches holding textiles and art.

"Happy, inspirational, and overwhelming (in the best way)." This is how IKEA Museum's curator Anna Sandberg Falk describes the brand's Magical Patterns exhibit at Dovecot Studios in Edinburgh. And having recently had a chance to preview this whimsical pavilion of fabrics by the plenty, ahead of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, I can't help but wholeheartedly agree.

I journeyed to the Scottish capital in anticipation of the adventurous patterns to come and was greeted by 180 textiles drifting from the ceilings and draped over the walls at this famed tapestry gallery. IKEA's textiles are often overlooked in lists of the best IKEA products, but the one thing I concluded at first glance is that they shouldn't be.