Place Your Ad Here Autos & Other Vehicles Property, Housing & Businesses for Sale Events & Garage SalesBarber Osgerby: lessons from design's Dynamic Duo Thursday 30 January 2014 13:00 GMT Jay Osgerby and Ed Barber are the award-winning design duo behind products ranging from the 2012 Olympic torch to the Tip Ton chair for Vitra, first created for schools. Their work includes the pricey - such as their marble Tobi Ishi table for B&B Italia, and a limited-edition handmade aluminium Iris table for Established & Sons - and the practical, such as the aluminium and steel chair designed for the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill, or their plywood Loop table. Their approach embraces industrial design, architecture and art. The pair, now in their early forties, met while studying architecture at the Royal College of Art and set up their architectural practice in 1996. They started designing furniture for their architectural projects, and the Loop table, their first success, was designed in Barber's then home in the brutalist Trellick Tower in Westbourne Park.

Their numerous accolades include the Jerwood furniture award in 2004 and the Design Museum's Design of the Year 2012, for the Olympic torch. They were both awarded the OBE last year, and their Shoreditch studio is expanding to cope with new projects, such as more furniture for Vitra and B&B Italia, to be launched in Milan. Barber lives with his partner in Bayswater, and Osgerby lives with his wife and three children in Brockley. While they have dallied with design art pieces, including their show, Ascent, at the West End's Haunch of Venison gallery, their hearts lie in more accessible design and, above all, what Barber describes as "the wonder of making". Osgerby's childhood fascination with making things, combined with a technical curiosity, has become an integral part of their design process, while playing with materials and methods is key to their success. "We draw and don't use computers. We make objects in our workshop. That way you get to understand what you are designing and how it will function and how it looks."

In their new exhibition In the Making at the Design Museum, they want "to show how an object comes from being a raw material to being something you own, and how along the way an object can have lots of different moments of beauty or intrigue or fascination, well before it is finished," explains Osgerby. tall directors chair outdoor"We want to show how things are put together, constructed and built and made by very brilliant people, and that things aren't just commodities that you order online. rocking chair for twinsWe want to unveil some of the secrets of the objects for people who never have chance to visit the manufacturer."office chair for hip pain The show reveals the birth of all kinds of everyday items, from the £2 coin they designed to commemorate the Tube's 150th anniversary, to a light bulb, by way of a sofa. gas lift chair not working

The 20-plus objects are all shown at a moment in their production. Barber says: "Often the half-made object is as beautiful, if not more so, than the finished product. We are displaying them on flocked plinths as if they were precious jewellery." Osgerby brandishes a willow cleft for a cricket bat and says: "It's like looking at a child and wondering what it will be when it grows up."best ergonomic chair brands It isn't just the objects they want to show, it's how those objects demonstrate the processes behind their manufacture, from the mundane stamping and pressing of a fork blank, or extruding of an engineering brick, to the craft skills of glass blowing a halogen bulb, and the digital skill of laser cutting the Olympic torch. hay about a chair 3dsOne of the most intriguing pieces on show is a Tip Ton chair stopped halfway through the injection moulding process.dining chair covers ikea australia

The duo are on a mission to make manufacturing exciting, to make visitors appreciate the ideas and skills behind the objects they use daily, to inspire them to be involved in making and, hopefully, to inspire a new generation of designers. In The Making: The exhibition is open daily, from now until May 3, 10am to 5.45pm at Design Museum, Shad Thames Street, SE1. throne chairs for sale in canadaAdmission £12.40 adult, £9.30 student. wooden rocking chair modelsMembers and under-sixes go free. ) Tip Ton polypropylene stacking chair; Follow us on Twitter @HomesProperty, Facebook and InstagramEddie Tipton allegedly used his position as a lotter security director to hatch an elaborate plot resulting in a $14.3 winning ticket for himself. That apparently was not the case in December 2010, when Eddie Raymond Tipton, who was information security director of the Multi-State Lottery Association, allegedly got way too lucky with a winning Hot Lotto ticket.

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