In the lead-up to the 2012 London Olympic Games, Barber & Osgerby were tasked with designing the official Olympic Torch, which was carried across the UK for 70 days leading up to the opening ceremony.
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To celebrate the 150th anniversary of the London Underground in 2012, Barber & Osgerby were asked to design a commemorative £2 coin. Their version shows a train emerging from the darkness of a tube tunnel.
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Barber & Osgerby's "Double Space for BMW -- Precision and Poetry in Motion" exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, part of the 2014 London Design Festival, showcased the more playful and fantastical side of the duo's work. Two large reflective silver elements were suspended from the ceiling of the V&A's Raphael Gallery, creating entirely new visual experiences of the architecture as they rotated through a series of choreographed movements.
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Barber & Osgerby's Olio 2015 collection of tableware combines wood, ceramic, and stainless steel elements to form a 40-piece collection for Royal Doulton.
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The designers' first project took the shape of the Loop table, which was subsequently acquired by both the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London for their permanent collections.
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The lightweight, stackable Top Ton Chair (produced by Vitra) has become one of Barber & Osgerby's most recognizable designs.
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The designers created the versatile Tobi Ishi table (for B&B Italia) in 2012, doing away with the traditional concept of a table being centered on a symmetrical central base.
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This year, Barber & Osgerby installed a weathervane-like structure at London's Somerset House as part of the inaugural London Design Biennale.
