Barber & Osgerby: Tobi-Ishi

The two British designers develop a new table for B&B Italia: a dark monolith with a top covered with concrete grout.

British designers Edward Barber & Jay Osgerby, who designed the 2012 Olympic Torch, have teamed up with B&B Italia for the first time to design a table-sculpture inspired by the smooth dark stones used for ornamental purposes in Japanese gardens.

This dark, round monolith (a form long absent from the B&B catalogue) has a wooden top completely covered with concrete grout, an almost liquid mix normally employed in construction to fix claddings or waterproof roofs. The adopted technique – the concrete is spread by hand all over the surface – adds an artisan touch to an industrial product and the shape of table base – made of Baydur structural polyurethane foam – seems to change when viewed from different angles.



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Tobi-Ishi table by Barber & Osgerby for B&BItalia
Tobi-Ishi table by Barber & Osgerby for B&BItalia
Tobi-Ishi table by Barber & Osgerby for B&BItalia
Tobi-Ishi table by Barber & Osgerby for B&BItalia
Tobi-Ishi table by Barber & Osgerby for B&BItalia
Tobi-Ishi table by Barber & Osgerby for B&BItalia

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