PATRULL bathtub mat, green, 33x90 cm

Making everyday life safer and better, for the little ones

UNESCO proclaimed 1979 as the International Year of the Child, and in the same year IKEA launched a new child safety programme under the name PATRULL. It was a series of products that would make life at home safer for children. PATRULL was about preventing everything from scratches and bruises to more serious accidents.

In the 1990s, a stool was developed by designers Knut Hagberg and Marianne Hagberg, alongside experts in plastics at IKEA. The stool entered the IKEA range in March 1998 and was named PATRULL. It was stabler and more durable than the previous stools, and the integrated anti-slip dots and feet prevented the stool from moving on the floor, and the child from slipping. The PATRULL stool was awarded Excellent Swedish Design in 1998, and premiered in the 2000 IKEA catalogue. Now, the updated version is still being sold, under the name BOLMEN.
See the BOLMEN Series