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Design

1998 (made)
Artist/Maker
Barber Osgerby Associates (designers)
Place of origin
London (made)

These designs are twelve preliminary working sketches, showing a variety of views, for the stool known as the 'Flight' stool and related furniture including a table, two chairs, and a table and two benches. The furniture is designed to be made out of continous sheets of plywood. A working sketch is a drawing often made rapidly to express the designer's first thoughts about the shape of an object, and in this case from a variety of viewpoints. The designs were by the firm of designers, Barber Osgerby Associates, based in London.

Object details

Categories
Designs
Furniture
Object type
Design
Materials and techniques
Hand-drawn with black roller-ball pen and ink on tracing paper
Ink
Tracing Paper
Drawing
Brief description
Preliminary working sketches for the "Flight" stool, Barber Osgerby Associates, London, 1998
Physical description
Preliminary working sketches (12) for the "Flight" stool and related furniture (intended to be made out of continuous sheets of plywood). The sketches are in roller-ball pen and black ink on a long, rectangular sheet of tracing paper. The shape of the sheet of tracing paper has been torn to shape. The sketches are of various views of the "Flight" stool and a table and two chairs and a table and two benches.
Dimensions
  • Height: 30cm
  • Width: 73.5cm
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Logo on back / S / S040' (In pen and black ink on the top left sketch.)
  • 'Berg' (In pen and black ink, in handwriting, on the left sketch in the middle lot of sketches.)
  • 'Ali insert. Stool.' (In pen and black ink in handwriting on second sketch in the middle lot of sketches.)
  • 'BOA / BARBER OSGERBY ASSOCIATES' (Printed in printing ink benath the sketches on the bottom centre of the sheet of paper.)
Credit line
Given by Barber Osgerby Associates
Subjects depicted
Stool
Chairs
Table
Benches
Summary
These designs are twelve preliminary working sketches, showing a variety of views, for the stool known as the 'Flight' stool and related furniture including a table, two chairs, and a table and two benches. The furniture is designed to be made out of continous sheets of plywood. A working sketch is a drawing often made rapidly to express the designer's first thoughts about the shape of an object, and in this case from a variety of viewpoints. The designs were by the firm of designers, Barber Osgerby Associates, based in London.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.190-2000

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Record createdApril 25, 2003
Record URL
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