Ready-to-assemble furniture

The low grade timber is coated with a polymer laminate to replicate various types of wood, allowing a high quality looking finished product.

"[4] An early attempt at a business selling RTA furniture was set up by designer Louise Brigham and two partners during World War I.

A boy or girl can set it up.”[5] Home Art Masters was short-lived and it is uncertain how many of their RTA furniture kits were ever sold.

[6] Lena Larsson helped to create one of the earliest Swedish brands of ready to assemble furniture, the TRIVA line, for Nordiska Kompaniet in 1943.

[8][9] In the Scandinavian countries, the furniture kit may have been independently invented by Swedish technician Gillis Lundgren, who had the idea when trying to transport a table in his car.