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The New Review: Critics: Design: Can you tell what it is yet?: Curated by design duo Barber Osgerby, In the Making freeze-frames the production process of everyday objects: In the Making Design Museum, London SE1; Wed to 4 May
2014
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The chamfers and tapers of the Tip Ton chair by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby are doing all these things, but it is not obvious which is doing what. Instead these variations are unified into an elegant, robust object of a single substance and colour. They serve the chair's most important idea, which is that it can half-rock, which enables a sitting position, a sort of forward-leaning perch, which is both good for the back and (again) the circulation of blood. If children like to tilt their chairs, it is not just to annoy, but also because it is good for them - it makes them more alert - and the Tip Ton chair makes a virtue of this fact. Although it sells healthily to individual buyers in shops such as John Lewis, the chair is mainly intended for schools. They started in [Barber Osgerby]'s flat in the Trellick Tower, the concrete monolith designed by Erno Goldfinger, which is famous for its changes from being progressive council housing, to tabloid-derided \"vertical slum\", to gentrified and sought-after design classic. Now they run an office of 60 people behind an anonymous door in Shoreditch, their premises expanding like a subterranean watercourse into the basements and spare spaces of adjoining buildings. Captions: Unfinished items from the In the Making exhibition at the Design Museum (clockwise from top left): a French horn; an optical lens, using Swarovski glass; a Coke can; and part of a football boot. Below: Barber Osgerby's Tip Ton chair, designed with schoolchildren in mind. Photographs by Gyorgy Korossy
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Guardian News & Media Limited
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