Did you know that a blade of lyme grass growing on the sand dunes forms a perfect circle when it’s playing in the wind? Börge Lindau, our father, did. He saw it and used it as a source of inspiration. Was it just simple curiosity? The desire to explore the technical possibilities around a round ring of compression-moulded birchwood veneer?

Later on Börge had difficulty in making up his mind. Should a small round seat have three or four legs? Or just one? Must a seat have a back to lean against? And how many legs? Three? Or four? How high above the ground do people like to sit? On three legs, or four? With a back to lean against, or not? And so on, and so on….Börge just couldn’t make up his mind… was reluctant to exclude any option… So it turned into a whole little family of stools and chairs… OBLADO.

At the time of Blå Stations 25th anniversary Cate and Nelson designed the B25 and B26 Ottoman. With allusions to Börge’s earlier designs and the Oblado Family it is even produced with the very same tool from 1986.