Blu Dot

Blu Dot is an American furniture company founded in 1997 in Minneapolis by three college friends, two architects and a sculptor, who could not find modern furniture they liked at prices they could afford and started sketching their own on a roll of butcher paper in a 300-square-foot space.

Everything is developed in-house: the design team sketches, builds scale models, prototypes and tests each piece, and no designer’s name is attached to a product because the collection is treated as a group effort. The range covers sofas, chairs, tables, storage, beds and lighting, with durable materials such as powder-coated steel and performance fabrics, many pieces BIFMA-rated for contract use and all covered by a five-year warranty. Blu Dot received the Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in product design in 2018.