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John Pawson

Shang Xia . Shenzhen

John Pawson . photos: © Shang Xia

Located in the Chinese city of Shenzhen, immediately north of Hong Kong, this project for Shang Xia is split between two sites within the same shopping complex, encompassing a store for clothing and accessories and a café serving tea and cakes, which also sells homewares. Continue reading John Pawson

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John Pawson

Philippines House

John Pawson . photos: © Harry Crowder

This project locates a tranquil domestic universe within the archetype of the hortus conclusus or enclosed garden.
The architecture is conceived as a cloister-like arrangement of spaces whose character is shaped by the spatial themes of scale, axis, rhythm and repetition, with particular emphasis falling on the geometries of the square and rectangle, which recur throughout the design, expressed in different weights of line. Continue reading John Pawson

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John Pawson

The Mass . 2023

John Pawson . photos: © Keishin Horikoshi / SS

The programme of this first exhibition of Pawson’s photographic work in Japan is divided between three indoor galleries and an outdoor area. Two galleries offer a visual encounter with sequences of chromatically ordered images drawn from Spectrum, while a second space contains diptychs of editioned Spectrum prints, hung alongside photographs from the series Home, where the subject of Pawson’s lens is his own domestic environments. Continue reading John Pawson