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ESTABLISHED & SONS Mega-clients have hounded Edward Bar- ber and Jay Osgerby almost since the day they founded their eponymous stu- dio; Giulio Cappellini signed on the Lon- don-based duo after glimpsing the Loop Table in 1997. BarberOsgerby's collabo- ration with Established & Sons also has been lengthy and symbiotic. The coffee table Zero-In helped launch the avant- garde brand in 2005. Established's pro- duction of the limited-edition Iris tables in 2008 marked a sea change in Bar- berOsgerby's method, from shaping sheet material to a color-based ap- proach to experimentation. Today the de- signers concentrate more on research and practical innovation, and Estab- lished & Sons continues to support its hometown hero regardless of focus. BarberOsgerby's Iris1300. INDUSTRY GALLERY Tom Price's design oeuvre is characterized by nicely resolved folded and swooping forms. His artistic work is left to chance. Its hallmark is the Meltdown Series, in which the London-based talent heats a shape former and presses it into a pile of polypropylene tubes or cable ties or discarded fleece. "I tend to use commonplace utilitarian plastic products in order to challenge our preconceptions and present these mundane artifacts in un- familiar ways," he says, adding that Industry Gallery's presentation of Melt- down at Design On/Site should spark discussion about our control over creativity and craftsmanship. Christien Meindertsma in collaboration with t.e. col- lection's Oak Inside cabinet. PRIVEEKOLLEKTIE Christien Meindertsma is a one-woman 20/20 episode, delving beyond obfuscation to learn where our goods come from. Her book Checked Baggage documents 3,267 items confiscated at Schiphol Airport after 9/11, and Pig 05049 examines the many reincarnations of a single raw material. The Rotterdam-based designer applies this curiosity to her products. The limited edition home furnishings series Oak Inside—commissioned for Priveekollektie in collaboration with t.e. collection—simultaneously reveals and reinvents centuries-old Hindeloopen crafts: A chair pattern is rede- ployed as the chair's own ladder back and the chemical in- teraction between iron and oak yields "painted" tables and case goods. Wearing fabrication on its sleeve, Oak Inside refutes the idea of blind consumption. 62 CULTURED Tom Price's Meltdown Chair: Bronze #1.