Edward Barber, Jay Osgerby

Biography

Integrity, substance and modernity. Looking at the thread running through Edward Barber's and Jay Osgerby's work, you find a free spirit of experimentation, combined with a high level of context and advanced technology.

Ed Barber and Jay Osgerby, both born in 1969, studied architecture together at the Royal College of Art in London and established BarberOsgerby in London in 1996. They hit the design press in their early 20s with their table Loop, represented in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Over the past ten years BarberOsgerby has worked across a wide range of disciplines. These include the two hangers displayed in Levi's 9,000 shops around the world, a bottle for the new Coca-Cola drink "Ipsei" – and an extremely beautiful, modern church pew for St.Thomas Cathedral in Portsmouth. Not to mention Stella McCartney's first store in Manhattan and the innovative easy chair Glove for Swedese. Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have both been awarded the title Royal Designer for Industry (RDI).