Barber Osgerby

[5] Barber and Osgerby have developed collections for B&B Italia, Flos, Vitra, Magis, Cappellini, Swarovski, Venini and Established & Sons, and Knoll among others.

They have also designed works for private commissions, and for public spaces such as the De La Warr Pavilion, The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), and the Portsmouth Cathedral.

[14] This informed both the small architectural projects they focused on at the time [15] and their first furniture piece, the Loop Table, originally designed for the lobby of a restaurant but subsequently manufactured by Isokon.

[17] Much of Barber and Osgerby's early work involved the shaping of sheet material such as perspex and plywood,[18] influenced by the white card that they had used frequently in architectural model making.

[25] In 2005 Barber and Osgerby moved on from wood, fulfilling a commission to design a new chair for the newly restored modernist De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill-on-Sea.

[28] The De La Warr Chair was subsequently put into production by Established & Sons who also produced Barber Osgerby's aluminium Zero-In table as part of their launch collection in 2005.

[30] Similarly, though now employing aerospace engineering techniques, Barber Osgerby's Iris tables for Established & Sons in 2008 were milled in sections from solid aluminum, anodized and joined with hidden bolts and tightened using magnets.

In 2009, Barber and Osgerby launched their first major commission for Murano glassmakers Venini: Lantern Marine, a limited edition collection of large vases composed of coloured interlocking components.

[41] Barber & Osgerby's range of work expanded further to encompass an ongoing collaboration on porcelain tile with Mutina[42] started from 2013; the AXOR One shower control for Hansgrohe in 2015; the Pilot chair for Knoll in 2015; the Olio range of tableware from Royal Doulton[43] that was introduced in 2015 and updated in 2021; the Pacific office chair for Knoll, and the Tibbo family of outdoor furniture for Dedon both in 2016; the Bellhop series of lamps for Flos from 2017, including the Bellhop floor in 2021 and a limited edition with Supreme[44] in 2020; and the On & On family of recyclable stacking chairs for Emeco in 2019.