The design team Lindau & Lindekrantz received the Nordic Design Award in 1984 for a furniture series called Duett, created for the furniture company Lammhults. The diploma itself was a perforated chair seat mounted in a yellow frame against a black background.
The award triggered something unexpected in Börge Lindau — who had sworn never again in his life to design “just another chair.” Instead, he went home and obsessively began sketching an entirely new furniture series called OBLADO.
The name itself has a story of its own. Together with his son, he developed not only a collection of prototype furniture, but also the entire framework around it: tooling investments, component pricing, suppliers, and production calculations — all to make life easier for the intended manufacturer. The first presentation took place in late autumn 1985 for Lammhults design producer, with whom Börge had worked closely for more than twenty years.
The company’s CEO loved the Oblado series, but only wanted to select a few favori
