About Blå Station

"You’ll find Blå Station in the little seaside town of Åhus on the Swedish south-east coast, where the sea is forever restless. Just like us. Maybe the fact that we’ve chosen Åhus as our home is of no importance. Maybe it’s the most important thing of all. Because for Blå Station, Åhus is the difference between existing and not existing. Let us explain...

Blå Station was set up in 1986 by a designer eager to return to his roots after many years of success out in the big wide world. That designer was Börge Lindau, one half of the design team Lindau & Lindekrantz - and our father.
The letters B-L-Å in Blå Station stand for B as in Börge, L as in Lindau and Å as in Åhus. The Station bit came because we needed a place to station ourselves. And, as you can now understand, if Blå Station hadn’t been stationed in Åhus, it wouldn’t be Blå Station.

Did you know that a blade of lyme grass growing on the sand dunes forms a perfect circle when it is playing in the wind? Börge knew it. He saw it and used it as inspiration for a series of furniture based on a round ring of compression moulded, layer-glued birch that first saw the light of day some time towards the end of 1985. In those days he was a freelancing designer in search of a more profound source of motivation to inspire him to make yet another chair. After all, there were already so many chairs in the world - and good one’s too. The answer to his quest was a platform of his own, his own production, his own Station in life. We joined him right from the start.

Life is all about the choices you make - about the differene between what you do and what you choose to leave undone. We have chosen to manufacture the kind of furniture we ourselves like. The kind of furniture we feel deserves a place in the market.

Motivated by the pleasure of what we do and driven by our own restless curiosity, we continue to develop new products. And, for us, being new means demonstrating an new attitude to form, function, materials or processes. We endeavour to utilise the unique properties of every material.

For many years our language of design has been intimately associated with circles, birch and stainless steel - Börge’s chosen idiom. Today the expressions, materials and shapes have evolved from close cooperation with new young designers, new industries. New hands holding new pens, drawing new shapes on new sheets of paper. But the philosophy behind it all remains the same. We believe that to meet the demands and desires of today you need an innovative frame of mind, a child’s curiosity - and a heart that refuses to take the easy way out.

As Börge himself said, “An idea is never better than its result.”

To Be and To Do. ToBeDo!

That’s the difference."

Mimi Lindau Rikardsson & Johan Lindau