Very rarely do people buy office chairs simply for the look of them—this type of seating belongs more to the office supplies department than it does furniture design. "Office chairs look like machines. They always look slightly aggressive. It's a bit like car design these days... [the chairs are] overtly saying, 'this is what I do, this is what I can deliver, these functions,'" says Edward Barber, partner of Jay Osgerby who together make up the design studio Barber & Osgerby.
The duo have just debuted their first task chair in collaboration with Vitra, and hope its simple yet functional silhouette can help diversify world of office chairs by providing something more sleek to the design-saavy crowd. The team notes, "we were just trying to do something that looked completely different."
