Pull up a chair, your chair, in the Bodleian
A chair design competition has been launched by the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, to find a new icon for the Weston Library, formerly known as the New Bodleian Library.
The building, designed by Sir Giles Gilbert Scott in the Thirties, is being completely refurbished by Wilkinson Eyre Architects and is due for completion in late 2014. The Bodleian Libraries, the integrated library service of Oxford University and comprising 40 libraries in all, wants to commission a new chair design that will become an important part of the newly refurbished library building's interior scheme. The competition calls on British-based designers to team up with a British manufacturer and submit design credentials for the first stage of the competition.
Competition judges will include director of the V&A Professor Martin Roth; Kenneth Grange, leading industrial designer; Jeremy Myerson, director and professor of design at the Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design; Alice Rawsthorn, design critic and author and Jim Eyre of Wilkinson Eyre Architects. Teaching staff and a student or library reader will also be on the judging panel.
bodleian.ox.ac.uk/chaircomp
