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bodleian library at oxford gets a designer chair. barber and osgerby.

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bodleian library at oxford gets a designer chair. barber and osgerby.

Nov 1, 2013 | lifestyle, people |
bodleian library at oxford gets a designer chair. barber and osgerby.
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The Bodleian Library at Oxford, which hails back to the Renaissance, was often filled with scholars wearing gowns of the sort today seen only in graduation ceremonies. The furniture tended to match. But a recent design competition, attracting about a hundred entries, has produced a new chair to outfit the library, combining tradition and practicality. The brief asked for a chair that avoids noises, of course. The winner by studio Barber Osgerby (Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby) in collaboration with Isokon Plus, which will build it, was shaped to make long days comfortable and also to avoid squeaking if a tired or restless scholar leans back on it.
It is part of a renovation of the library and replaces a chair designed in 1935. The chair is three legged, a bit round and monk-like in appearance. “The winning three-legged oak chair drew on extensive local knowledge of the library and its cultural setting,” reports Co.Design. The upright spine is said to play off the spines of books on shelves. [ bodleian library ] [ bodleian competition ]

phil13-bando-chair3photo> jamie smith

phil13-bando-chair1winning design chosen from a shortlist of three by a panel of judges and readers from the bodleian libraries | photo > jamie smith

phil13-bando-chair4the shortlisted entries with their predecessors at the v&a museum until 17 november | photo> ben bisek

the short-list, partnerships—Amanda Levete and Herman Miller, Barber Osgerby and Isokon Plus, and Matthew Hilton and SCP Ltd

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Phil Patton is a contributing editor at Departures and Esquire magazines, a contributing writer at Wired and an automotive design writer for The New York Times. He was a regular contributor to The New York Times House and Home section and, in 1998, originated the “Public Eye” column. He has written many books including: Made in USA: The Secret History of the Things That Made America (Grove-Weidenfeld, 1992), which was named a New York Times notable book of the year; Bug: The Strange Mutations of the World's Most Famous Automobile (Simon & Schuster, 2002); Michael Graves Designs: The Art of the Everyday Object (Melcher, 2004); and Dreamland: Travels Inside the Secret World of Roswell and Area 51 (Villard, 1998). He has also written for Art in America, ARTnews, Connoisseur, Geo, Harper’s Bazaar, Men’s Journal, The New Republic, New York Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Rolling Stone, Smithsonian, Travel + Leisure, Traveler, The Village Voice and Vogue. Patton was Editorial Consultant on the Guggenheim Museum’s “Motorcycle” show in 1998 and Consulting Curator for the “Different Roads” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in 1999. In 2000 he was consultant and contributor for “On the Job: Design and the American Office” at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.

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