21 Jun Blå Station: 25 in 2011

One of our Swedish manufacturers Blå Station turns 25 years young this year, so they commissioned up-and-coming design duo Cate & Nelson to design a product to mark the special occasion.

Cate & Nelson’s brief was to base this product on the language of design that characterised Blå Station in its earliest days – the round birch-wood ring and natural tanned leather from Tärnsjö Tannery. The result is the B25 easy chair in compression-moulded birch with a surface of ash veneer. The seat is upholstered in polyether foam and down and comes with fabric or leather covers.

The allusions to Blå Station founder Börge Lindau’s Oblado series are unmistakable. He first manufactured the iconic round ring in birch in 1986 – and the very same tool has now been used for B25. The covered back assumes its intended shape once it has been fitted in place in the ring, in the same way as the backrest on Hövding chair.

The B25 also builds on the idea of furnishings as members of a family – creating not just a single item of furniture, but a small series, a group of furnishings or a family based on the same idea and using the same basic components.

B25 is the perfect solution for lounges, libraries and hotels, where the chair offers a secluded place in which to relax. Other members of the B25 family include an ottoman and a table.