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John Pawson

John Pawson, Jil Sander Store, Omotesandō, Tokyo, Japan

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John Pawson
Jil Sander Store
Omotesandō, Tokyo, Japan
2017 – 2018

The design for the store on Omotesandō uses refined geometry to sculpt space, shape patterns of movement and create atmosphere. Gestures are pared to a minimum, with the emphasis falling on a series of immersive sensory encounters with natural materials and elements of borrowed landscape — most powerfully in the play of light on timber, stone and steel, and through the branches and foliage of a mature tree.

Project Team:
Shingo Ozawa, Verde Buliani, Marta Vitorio, Max Gleeson

Photography:
Nacasa & Partners

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A Shade of Pale by John Pawson

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A Shade of Pale
The Store X
London
2018

This installation of the unabridged image sequence of Spectrum in an iconic brutalist building in central London was conceived as part of a group show curated by Carrie Scott.

As in the book, the photographs are a uniform size and suspended at eye level in double-sided pairs, using a hanging system developed for minimum visual distraction.

The intention is the creation of an immersive experience that uses the entirety of the gallery space, where the chromatic spectrum is legible from both ends of the room.

Project Team
Max Gleeson, Marta Vitorio, Nicholas Barba

Exhibition Photography
Max Gleeson

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John Pawson Barbican Apartment

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Barbican Apartment
Barbican, London
2017 – 2019

The layout of this apartment in the heart of the City of London was previously fragmented into a series of separate elements, including four bedrooms. The architectural reimagining of the space began with the idea of paring away everything to a state of emptiness and using three axes from the underlying structure to shape the new geometry of the now one-bedroomed accommodation. A free-standing timber volume inserted within the core of the cleared floor plan houses a work area and also becomes the medium for quietly ordering all other elements of the programme. Five objects that the clients brought into the project — three paintings, a grandfather clock and a figure of the Buddha — serve as waypoints within the spatial narrative, alongside framed, elevated views out into the urban skyline.

Project team
Maria Bello, Chris Masson

Photography
Gilbert McCarragher

John Pawson

John Pawson: Anatomy of Minimum

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John Pawson: Anatomy of Minimum
Phaidon Press
2019

A powerful new monograph showcasing the defining elements and architectural anatomy at the very heart of Pawson’s work.

This monograph, the latest volume in Phaidon’s documentation of John Pawson’s stellar career, hones in on the essential details that mark his distinctive architectural and aesthetic style. It groups a selection of his recent works into domestic projects, including his own house in rural England; extended sacred spaces; and repurposed structures, such as London’s Design Museum. Throughout its pages, this book explores Pawson’s unique approach to proportion and light and his precise language of windows, doors, and walls.

Author
Alison Morris

Commissioning Editor
Virginia McLeod

Project Editor
Sophie Hodgkin

Production Controller
Sarah Kramer

Design
Nicholas Barba, Maria Bello, Max Gleeson

Format: Hardback
Size: 290 x 250 mm (11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in)
Pages: 240 pp
Illustrations: 340 illustrations
ISBN: 9780714874845

Phaidon

John Pawson Home Farm

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John Pawson
Home Farm
Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
2013 – 2019

Over the course of more than thirty years, a body of work has accumulated based on the objective of making simple spaces, with just what is required and nothing more, where the eye feels as comfortable as the body. At the heart of everything has been the idea of refining by removing, meticulously paring away until what is left cannot be improved by further reduction: sensual space, where the primary experience is of the quality of light, materials and proportions. During these three decades, every project has represented a manifesto of the thinking, but nowhere is this truer than at Home Farm in Oxfordshire, where architect and client are one.

Project Team
Guy Dickinson, Stefan Dold, Matthew Bailey, Stephen Baty, Ivo Carew, Max Gleeson, Olivia Haylor, Harikleia Karamali, Nora Szuts, Douglas Tuck, Tom Whittaker

Photography
Gilbert McCarragher

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Palmgren House, John Pawson

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Palmgren House
Drevviken, Sweden
2006 – 2013

John Pawson

This house on the shore of Lake Drevviken takes the form of a simple box, with an enclosed courtyard at the back and a terrace to the front. Uncompromisingly contemporary, the architecture is nonetheless a quiet presence in the landscape. In winter, when the lake freezes over and the site is blanketed in snow, the pale volume is all but invisible.
In summer, viewed from across the water, the elevations are fragmented by foliage. Inside the house is designed to be as open as possible to views over the lake, with spaces framed in simple surfaces and in a pale tonal palette.

Project Team
Shingo Ozawa, Seamus Kowarzik

Photography
Åke E:son Lindman