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Product catalogue 2024
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John Pawson CBE has spent over thirty years
making rigorously simple architecture that speaks
of the fundamentals but is also modest in character.
His body of work spans a broad range of scales
and typologies, from private houses, sacred
commissions, galleries, museums, hotels, ballet sets,
yacht interiors and a bridge across a lake. As Alvar
Aalto’s bronze door handle has been characterised
as the ‘handshake of a building’, so a sense of
engaging with the essence of a philosophy of space
through everything the eye sees or the hand touches
is a defining aspect of Pawson’s work. His method
is to approach buildings and design commissions in
precisely the same manner, on the basis that ‘it’s all
architecture’. Whether at the scale of a monastery,
a house, a saucepan or a ballet, everything is
traceable back to a consistent set of preoccupations
with mass, volume, surface, proportion, junction,
geometry, repetition, light and ritual. In this way,
even something as modest as a fork can become a
vehicle for much broader ideas about how we live
and what we value.
John Pawson
Designs for
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