Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, the duo behind the London 2012 Olympic torch, have designed a series of furniture with cast aluminium legs that can be finished in red, white or black paint.

The range includes two and three seat sofas, an armchair and ottomans, available in a selection of fabrics including leather, as well as side tables and a stool. They are on display at Knoll's stand C01-D02, Pavilion 20 at the Milan Fairgrounds in Rho, and in the brand's showroom located at Piazza Bertarelli 2.

The sofas feature in our round up of the best products at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile.

Knoll is also presenting a collection of rotating, sliding and motorised furniture by architect Rem Koolhaas at the Prada exhibition space in Milan - see all our coverage of Milan 2013 here and our map of events taking place across the city here.

As BarberOsgerby, the designers have previously designed limited edition stripy tables for Established & Sons and a tilting chair for Vitra.

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A Tube train will appear on the back of Britain's £2 coins next year, designed by British studio BarberOsgerby for the Royal Mint to celebrate the 150th anniversary of London Underground.

Above: a sketch for the final design of the coin by BarberOsgerby

The coin by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby depicts a Tube train emerging from a tunnel and has a patterned edge inspired by the dotted lines on the Tube map.

Above: a sketch for the coin's edge by BarberOsgerby

The designers, who received international acclaim with their "cheese grater" design for the Olympic Torch this year, said the £2 coin was the "perfect choice" to commemorate the Tube. "Its form is naturally reminiscent of the Roundel that is the universal logo of the London Underground," they explained.

Above: a sketch for the coin by BarberOsgerby

The designers chose to depict the 1967 Victoria line train due to its aesthetic simplicity and easily recognisable outline.

Above: a sketch for the coin by BarberOsgerby

Another commemorative £2 coin has also been created for the Royal Mint by British designer and engraver Edwina Ellis, depicting the roundel logo with an edge inscription that reads "mind the gap", as Tube passengers are regularly reminded.

Above: a sketch for the coin by BarberOsgerby

We've published lots of BarberOsgerby projects on Dezeen, including the award-winning Olympic Torch design, which they talked about in a movie filmed by Dezeen, and a tilting chair for design brand Vitra – see all our stories about BarberOsgerby.

We've also published a circuit board radio based on the Tube map and a revamped Tube map designed to be more geographically accurate.

Here's some more information from the Royal Mint:

The Royal Mint celebrates the 150th anniversary of the London Underground with two £2 coins

2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the London Underground and to celebrate, The Royal Mint has struck two £2 coins designed by internationally acclaimed designers.

Each of the new £2 coin designs encapsulates elements of the architecture, poster art, logo and map of the London Underground to create two impressive coins in honour of the world’s first underground railway. These UK coins will be highly desirable to millions of London tourists, Londoners who travel the Underground every day as well as design and transport fans and UK £2 coin collectors. They will also appear in circulation in 2013 so people will be able to collect them from their change in the New Year.

The ‘train’ coin, designed by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby who designed the world-famous London 2012 Olympic Torch, depicts the front of the familiar Tube train emerging from a tunnel and carries an unusual patterned edge inspired by Harry Beck’s iconic Tube map.

Commenting on their design, Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby said, "We are honoured to be part of the celebrations of the 150th anniversary of the London Underground. As well as being the oldest underground railway in the world, as an organisation it has been highly progressive, commissioning pioneering engineering, architecture and art.

The £2 coin was the perfect choice; its form is naturally reminiscent of the Roundel that is the universal logo of the London Underground.”

The coin depicts an approaching train with the outer ring of the coin used graphically to suggest the tunnel wall. The rails traverse the outer ring, contradicting conventions of a concentric frame, while a line references the ‘exergue’ in classical coins.

When considering symbolic representations of the London Underground, the designers found that an image of the front of a train appearing from the darkness of a tunnel represents what many people consider to be the ‘face’ of the London Underground.

The train referenced in the artwork is the 1967 Victoria line train, chosen for two reasons: the designers’ affinity to the aesthetic simplicity it represents; and the wide recognition of this train due to the iconic status it has gained over the years.

A subtle graphic detail inset around the coin edge represents the London Underground line with a number of stations, the last of which conceals the initials ‘B’ and ‘O’ as the Barber Osgerby signature.

The Tube emerging from the tunnel symbolically celebrates the Underground’s transition between the past and the future.

The ‘roundel’ coin, which has been created by British designer Edwina Ellis, whose graphic work includes the design of the Bridge series of four UK £1 coins, bears the London Underground roundel logo which first appeared on Underground station platforms in 1908 – in 1916 Edward Johnson added the official Underground typeface to the bar. The coin features an edge inscription heralding the famous advice: MIND THE GAP.

Speaking about her coin design, Edwina Ellis said, “I shuffled various elements from a treasure trove of graphics, imagery and engineering that forms one of the oldest extant corporate identities. Edward Johnson's 1916 lettering and his 1920 bulls-eye logo still represent the Underground.”

The obverse of both UK £2 coins features the current portrait of Her Majesty The Queen by Ian Rank-Broadley FRBS.

The 150th Anniversary of the London Underground 2013 UK £2 Two-Coin Set, struck to Brilliant Uncirculated quality, is displayed in a beautiful presentation folder that includes a large fold-out full-colour poster specially designed with ‘Tales from the Tube’, facts from each of the London Underground lines; maps and corresponding UK coinage that shows its evolution over the last 150 years.

The 150th Anniversary of the London Underground 2013 UK Brilliant Uncirculated £2 Two-Coin Set, precious metal versions and the 14-Coin Collection are available from The Royal Mint’s website www.royalmint.com.

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Each of the one-off benches is made from a different material and produced in collaboration with a company specialising in that material. After being on display for the festival they'll be auctioned off and the money fed back to fund next year's London Design Festival commissions.

Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, the designers of the Olympic torch, made a marble bench with holes bored through (above) in collaboration with Italian studio Tor Art. They were inspired by shrapnel marks left in the V&A museum's western facade after the Second World War. "It's something that always fascinated me and Ed on the way from South Kensington tube up to the Royal College when we were students, and so when this project came up we thought it was a nice way to reference that," explained Jay Osgerby at the opening.

AL_A, the architecture practice led by Amanda Levete, worked with Barcelona ceramics company Ceramica Cumella to come up with a bench (above) made of overlapping tiles, glazed with colours inspired by the museum's ceramics collections. AL_A is also designing a new subterranean gallery for the museum.

British designer Alexander Taylor made a bench from mirror-polished stainless steel cylinders (above) with steel specialists Caparo. He explained that making perfect cylinders in steel is tricky because "the material is extruded with an oval profile so it has to be cut and put back together again."

Italian designer Martino Gamper built a wooden bench (above) from slanted planks of thermally modified hardwood, treated to improve its stability and resistance to decay. The angled stripes of red oak, maple, ash, yellow birch and tulipwood provided by the American Hardwood Export Council create an "optical illusion" and "somehow give the impression of animation" said Gamper, adding that the modular system can be extended to any length.

British designer Jasper Morrison collaborated with concrete specialists lowinfo to create a concrete bench (above) with narrow runnels along the seat that allow rain water to drain away despite the seat being curved for comfort, while German designer Konstantin Grcic worked with Italian company Bisazza on a glass mosaic bench (below).

Portugese designer Fernando Brizio created a cork bench in the shape of a pig's foot (below) with Amorim Cork.

British designer Felix de Pass produced a cream-coloured sheet-steel bench (below) with perforations that help water drain away and disperse heat from the sun. It's an adaptation of his bench that's already in production with Established & Sons.

Sam Hecht and Kim Colin from Industrial Facility worked with Corian, a material often used for kitchen worktops, to create two benches (below) that mimic the marble plinths found inside the museum.

Sadly the final bench in the collection, created by Italian designer Luca Nichetto and glass manufacturer Nardo Vetro, was broken in transit.

Other installations at the V&A during the London Design Festival include Keiichi Matsuda's data visualisation and chairs by Nendo scattered around the museum.

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The London 2012 Olympics are well underway and every day this week we'll award medals to design and architecture created for the games, starting with the three most popular stories. The Olympic Torch by BarberOsgerby takes the gold, with over 40,000 pageviews. Watch BarberOsgerby talk about their design in our movie interview here.

The silver medal goes to the Olympic Stadium (above) with over 38,000 pageviews. You can explore all the buildings in the Olympic Park in our interactive aerial photo here.

Coming in third with a bronze medal is a motorway floating on the River Thames (above) to ease congestion in the city, cunningly unveiled on 1 April with almost 30,000 pageviews.

That's it for today - we'll be back tomorrow with another round of medallists!

Meanwhile see all our coverage of London 2012 Olympic design here.

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Also in the movie, co-founder of Clerkenwell Design Week Daren Newton talks about the atmospheric venues, focussing on a former merchant’s warehouse, a Victorian underground prison and a church crypt.

You can watch the full interview with BarberOsgerby on designing the Olympic torch here and look out for movies with Lovegrove, Jaguar, Erwan Bouroullec, Mischer'Traxler and more on Dezeen soon.

Clerkenwell Design Week took place from 22-24 May. See all our stories about the event in our special category.

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