Bimbo turns 25!
Bimbo has been a bestseller and a classic in the Blå Station collection since Peter Brandt came up with his easy-going yet
perfectly exact design 1994. The light stool can be used everywhere, just use the cut-out in the middle to grab Bimbo and shuffle
it around for a temporary seating place or as an aid to stretch for out of reach places. Bimbo is as much a part of the interior
design in use or stacked away in graphically intriguing little towers. The original Bimbo was made of compression moulded birch
wood with veneer in birch and oak. Our 25 years celebration adds two more finishes: walnut and ash. Bimbo was awarded the
Forsnäspriset in the year of its launch, a joint award from the Swedish Institute for Furniture and the Forsnäs factory. It has also won
Guldstolen 2005, the Golden Chair, by the Swedish Association of Architects, for best classic.and so much softer with distinctive
armrests and cosy cushions.
Peter Brandt | 1994
Design is hardly about simplicity for Peter Brandt, the best
solution has to work in many different ways. At first glance,
Bimbo is a practical well-designed stool, and obviously the
result of a careful study of how to bend the raw material
properly. But Bimbo also radiates its own lightness, just grab
me and carry me around for whatever purpose. And while
stacked up, it’s almost a sculpture in its own right. ”I’m no
mathematician, but I’m striving for a certain grammar in my
creations, Bimbo is cut out to almost resemble individuals
which you can stack together. It’s sturdy, and it’s smart, and
the mix of colours create stunning effects.” Peter Brandt, who
is Danish by birth but has been living in Stockholm for a long
time, originally studied architecture in Copenhagen, and
design at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design in
Stockholm. For 15 years he has worked worked mainly as
an architect at the office of Thomas Ericsson. He nevertheless
contributes with outdoor furniture in both wood and cast iron
for municipalities, as well as for private semi-public gardens.
Do you dream about a special design project? I’d really like
to work with new light solutions now that LED really works.
There are so many possibilities with such a small light source,
not least the possibility to integrate lights directly in the
architecture of the office without any armatures.
What are you reading just now? I just finished Yuval Noah
Harari’s Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and Hans
Rosling’s Factfullness, right now I really enjoy the Swedish
cartoonist Nina Hemmingsson’s På A svarar jag hej då.
BIMBO
