Surprising… Unexpected… Unique…
These words probably characterize Blå Station furniture most precisely.
Blå Station is a family-owned company founded in 1986 by renowned Swedish furniture designer Börge Lindau. The idea for creating Blå Station was the designer’s desire to produce furniture that he liked and which, in his opinion, deserved a place on the market.
It all started in 1986 from a few furniture prototypes placed in a former sewing factory in Åhus on the southeast coast of Sweden. And in the beginning, before the company’s own production started, empty echoing rooms were filled with art exhibits and jazz concerts. It was fun and the place became known as “a Station” – which was a very fitting name. Because at a station there´s always something going on – a constant flow of change.
Blå Station’s founder, designer Börge Lindau, used the signature BLÅ on his drawings – the B and the L being the initials of his first and last name and the Å representing Åhus where he had settled. This is how the company name came about.
Curiosity is Blå Station fuel in the process of searching not for the already known and established, but for the unexpected, yet-to-be discovered. That’s why, it’s not enough that a product has never been shown before. For it to be considered new, it must be able to demonstrate a new attitude towards shape, function, material or the industrial production process. New furniture should be better at something and offer an alternative to what is already available.
Blå Staton finds inspiration in the interiors that surround us – how they are built and how they work. How do we interact in the public space? Has today´s society added new demands? Has our way of socializing changed? There are many questions that inspire to think differently.
To meet today´s demands and desires Blå Station believes it is necessary to have an open and innovative mind, a child´s curiosity as well as a heart that rejects shortcuts and apathy.
TO BE AND TO DO… TOBEDO!
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