Remarkable Mentors: Jere Osgood

Osgood’s affect—gentle, very soft-spoken, and extremely reserved—was the opposite of Frid’s. But his steel and his self-confidence were just as strong. While absorbing much from Frid’s instruction, Osgood remained true to his own vision, and over the years his furniture came to embody more and more audacious experiments with form, structure, and joinery.