Bla Station: Fair 2016, 3 44

We’re celebrating our 30th birthday 2016! Over the years we
have focused on making a difference on the market.
Despite our great age, we are still curious, we still have our
passion and we still don’t ask the market what it wants or needs.
We carry out our own business intelligence assessments and
rarely or never rely on anyone else’s trend analysis.
We continue to concentrate on seating such as stools, chairs,
sofas and armchairs, but also on their closest associates, such
as benches and tables of various types.
Sustainability and environmental awareness, new technologies,
new materials and new machinery are important foundations and
building blocks for us. All of this can be achieved within a small
area here in Sweden, making us quite unique as a production
country. We want high quality and a well-thought-out process.
We never take shortcuts.
We always strive to adopt a new approach to form, function,
material and technology. To succeed with this, you have to be
as curious about industry as about young people’s behaviour.
We constantly reassess what we surround ourselves with and
how this affects our lives and opportunities.

Blå Station was established 30 years ago, in 1986, by a
designer who after many successful years had tired of designing
yet another chair and instead wanted to devote himself to
something completely different. But with a recent award in his
hand and too many rounds of golf behind him, it wasn’t possible
to avoid the temptation of doing what he loved best – namely
the challenge of designing at least one more chair...
And when nobody wanted to produce the whole new furniture
series, which he called OBLADO, he decided to become his
own producer. Because then he would be able to decide about
and manufacture the furniture he himself liked and which he felt
deserved a place on the market.
That designer was Börge Lindau, our father.
Mimi & Johan
On our wish list this year, as always; Peace Love & Good Design!
3O