Barber Osgerby
Biography:
Edward Barber, born in Shrewsbury in 1969, and Jay Osgerby, born in Oxford in 1969; studied architecture and interior design together at the Royal College of Art in London. They founded their own architecture and design studio – Barber Osgerby – in 1996. Since then, they have worked together at the interface of industrial design, furniture design and architecture.
Projects:
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
