Terence Woodgate and John Barnard create sculptural furniture from carbon fibre

Industrial designer Terence Woodgate has teamed up with John Barnard, an automotive engineer best known for his pioneering work with carbon fibre, to create a new design collection that bridges the divide between craft and technology.

Woodgate’s career has been characterised by a minimalist, ascetic approach, influenced in part by the pared-back work of artists and sculptors like Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin and Donald Judd. Parlaying these influences into products, lighting and his own sculptural objects, Woodgate’s client list includes Cappellini, Established & Sons, Moroso, SCP, Objekten, and Izé.

This new collaboration, Lightness of Form, sprang from another source of inspiration, the work of racing car designer John Barnard. Barnard began working in motorsport in the late 1960s and in 1972 he joined McLaren for the first time, leaving after three years to work in the American IndyCar race series. Back in the UK in 1980, he once again went to work for McLaren, by now led by the legendary Ron Dennis.