Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby

Stools, lamps and chairs by Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby

Both born in 1969, Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby studied together at the Royal College of Art in London and established Barber Osgerby in 1996. In 1998 the "Loop table", their first piece, was shown by Cappellini in Milan. Featured widely the table is now in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum in New York and the V&A in London, along with their "Flight Stool" and most recent addition, a landmark commission for one of Britain’s modernist masterpieces – The De La Warr Pavilion. The De La Warr Pavilion chair, designed for both inside and outside the Pavilion, was launched to critical acclaim in Milan 2006.

Barber Osgerby has been developing collections of distinctive designs for leading manufacturers such as Vitra, Magis, Authentics, ClassiCon, Isokon Plus and Stella McCartney. Among the many prestigious accolades won by Barber Osgerby there is to named especially the nomination for the Compasso d’Oro in 2004 or the award as best Furniture Designers of the year in 2005 by the Blueprint magazine.

Projects:

    2011 “Tip Ton” chair

Exhibitions:

    2011 Brit Insurance Design Awards Exhibition, Design Museum, London
    2010 Barber Osgerby Open Studio, London Design Festival
    2009 Super Contemporary, Design Museum, London
    2009 European Design Since 1985: Shaping the New Century, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
    2008 Designs of the Year, Design Museum, London
    2008 Design Britain, NEC, Birmingham
    2007 Nature Design, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich
    2006 Defining Space, The Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea
    2005 Colour by Numbers, The Blue Gallery, London
    2005 Au doigt et a la baguette – 40 designers dessinent la baguette de chef d’orchestre, Mudac, Lausanne
    2004 Jerwood Applied Arts Prize for Furniture Exhibition, Crafts Council of Great Britain.
    2003 Habiter, Tuilerie Gardens, Paris
    2003 Somewhere Totally Else, Design Museum, London
    2002 Au Vestiare, Une Histoire de Cintres, Musee de la Mode et du Textil, Paris
    2002 Spot On Exhibition, Haute Definition, Paris
    2002 LOSA (London – South Africa), Sotheby’s, London
    2001 Home Sweet Home, exhibition touring Europe and Australia with The British Council
    2001 Contemporary Decorative Arts Exhibition, Sotheby’s, London
    2001 Great Expectations, exhibtion touring USA, Asia & Pacific with The British Council
    2001 The Evolution of British Design, Tempio de Adriano, Rome and National Gallery, Prague
    2000 Creative Britain – Stars of the Millennium, British European Design Group, Berlin, Milan and Rome
    2000 100 Pieces of Modern Design, curated by Jasper Morrison at the Museum für angewandte Künste, Cologne
    1999 Barber Osgerby Show, Zona Zurich and Zona Bern, Switzerland
    1999 Childsplay, Twentytwentyone & The British Council, London & touring Germany, Taiwan, Venezuela
    1999 Living Rooms (installation design with J. Morrison, M. Newson, M. Young & M. Marriott), Atlantis Gallery, London
    1998 Tectonic, Twentytwentyone, London
    1997 Modern Furniture

Awards:

    2007: Elle Decoration Magazine: Designer of the Year
    2007: Royal Designers for Industry
    2005: Blueprint Magazine: Furniture Designer of the Year
    2004: Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts
    1998: ICFF Editors’ Award: Best New Designer