Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have won the coveted Bodleian Libraries Chair Competition. The duo beat stiff competition from Matthew Hilton and Amanda Levete to win with its three-legged oak chair that echoes the spines of books on shelves. The winning design – only the third specially commissioned by Bodleian since 1756 – will be produced by Isokon and will find its home in the iconic 1930s Sir Giles Gilbert Scott Weston Library, which is being remodelled by architects Wilkinson Eyre.

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