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Artist/Maker	Barber Osgerby Associates (designers)
Place of origin	London (made)

These designs are preliminary working sketches for the stool known as the 'Flight' stool, by the London-based firm of designers, Barber Osgerby Associates. The stool is designed to be made from a continous sheet of plywood. These sketches were drawn quickly to express ideas about the form of the furniture.

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Categories	Designs Furniture
Object type	Design
Materials and techniques	Hand-drawn with black roller-ball pen and ink on tracing paper Roller-Ball Pen Ink Tracing Paper Drawing
Brief description	Preliminary working sketches for the "Flight" stool, Barber Osgerby Associates, London, 1998
Physical description	Preliminary working sketches for the "Flight" stool and related furniture (intended to be made out of continuous sheets of plywood). The sketches are in pencil on a rectangular sheet of tracing paper. The sheet is torn at the top and bottom from a larger sheet of paper.
Dimensions	Height: 35.2cm Width: 29.9cm
Marks and inscriptions	'BOA / BARBER OSGERBY ASSOCIATES / T01819607928 / F01819648248' (In ink printed on front middle on right side.)
Credit line	Given by Barber Osgerby Associates
Production	Attribution note: Design for furniture intended to be made out of a continuous sheet of plywood.
Subject depicted	Stool
Summary	These designs are preliminary working sketches for the stool known as the 'Flight' stool, by the London-based firm of designers, Barber Osgerby Associates. The stool is designed to be made from a continous sheet of plywood. These sketches were drawn quickly to express ideas about the form of the furniture.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.189-2000

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Record created	April 25, 2003
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O80205/design-barber-osgerby-associates/

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