Around since 1997, this Midwest-based company started by three college friends continues to find success as they push their line (and design) to completely new places, such as this years addition of a task chair, which we saw for the first time at ICFF. The interest level in their work seems to be at a high - every time we passed by their booth at the show it was packed....as was their industry party on Saturday night.
Congrats, Blu Dot!
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Wow, that new office chair is awesome.
I have mixed feelings about Blu Dot. Their designs are outstanding - I don't think there's even one piece I dislike the look of.
Having owned their Dodu bed, however, I can say that the construction of some items is simply awful. It was the most expensive and most fragile piece of furniture I have owned.
Completely agree with ChristopherB. I have the strut dining table (in dark olive) and while I know it's a huge risk whenever you get anything with high shine - the top surface of my dining table has scratches and marks that won't come off and appeared way too easily for my liking. The top is MDF with a polyurethane finish. Don't get me wrong - it looks great - but even after being really careful, I saw a ton of streaks and marks on the top when you look at it.
I like em. We have an old Paperclip desk of theirs that is still going strong (that said, I don't expect my furniture to stay in perfect condition).
ditto on the strut for being easily scratched and more. we have a large one and some of the varnish lifted when we left a spray bottle of simple green on top of it for three hours. i don't understand why it's not powder coated / enameled all the way around – rather than just the legs.