Icon DGM Furniture Design of the Year

Barber Osgerby won the prestigious Design Guild Mark prize at the Icon Awards last night, for the best furniture design.

The Awards are Icon Magazine’s annual celebration of the best in architecture and design from Britain and across the world.

There are 11 categories, covering all aspects of the industry – from high-profile buildings to emerging talents, from interiors to exhibitions – it also has a special focus on socially responsible and ethical projects.

The Furniture Makers’ Company Design Guild Mark prize was won by Barber Osgerby for their Library Chair for the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

The three-legged oak chair was winner of the highly coveted Bodleian Libraries Chair Competition and is a contemporary response to the brief which combines a strong sense of craft heritage, sculptural form and complex reader requirements.

Manufactured by Isokon Plus in the UK, the chair uses European oak and leather from a British tannery. This is only the third new chair developed specifically for the Bodleian since 1756, and joins an illustrious group of historic chairs that have supported readers over centuries.

Master Paul von der Heyde presented the Design Guild Mark prize and said: “I was pleased to present the prize for Furniture Design of the Year and delighted to award it to such an excellent winner.”

For more about the chair go to barberosgerby.com

For more about the Icon Awards go to iconmagazineawards.com

For more about the Bodleian Library Chair Competition go to bodleian.ox.ac.uk

To enter for the Design Guild Mark Awards 2015 see our page here.