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John Pawson . photos: © Salvatori

The Span tables and benches for Salvatori are conceived as a family of simple, functional pieces for inside and outside use, fabricated in a palette of Carrara marble, sandstone and cherry wood. The character of the collection derives from details of proportion and from the precise manner in which horizontal and vertical, curved and angled, smooth and textured elements combine. The design thinking originated in the specific context of a 17th century farmhouse and its associated agricultural structures in Oxfordshire, subjects of a major renovation and remodeling project. Continue reading John Pawson

John Pawson

The church of St Moritz has been through many changes since its foundation nearly
a thousand years ago. Devastating fires, changes in liturgical practice, aesthetic evolution and wartime bombing have each left their mark on the fabric of the building. The purpose of this latest intervention has been to retune the existing architecture, from aesthetic, functional and liturgical perspectives, with considerations of
sacred atmosphere always at the heart of the project. The work has involved the meticulous paring away of selected elements of the church’s complex fabric and the relocation of certain artefacts,
to achieve a clearer visual field. Drawing on existing forms and elements of vocabulary, an architectural language has evolved that
is recognisable in subtle ways as something new, yet has no jarring foreign elements. Continue reading John Pawson

John Pawson . photos: © Max Gleeson

Driving the brief for the project was the requirement that these premises in Milan be at once a gallery for bread, a stage for bakers and a gathering place for customers, with its various spaces simultaneously susceptible to the very different disciplines of curation and choreography. Continue reading John Pawson

John Pawson . photos: © Max Gleeson

Observed from the pine-fringed bay, Armonia is designed to read as a graphically simple composition of slender white horizontal lines, framing full-height glass and bronze finished elements that quietly animate the elevations with rhythm and pattern. The goal of the design was to create a series of apartments where the sense of place is strong and expressed in a series of intimate relationships with the sea, the mountains, the surrounding gardens and the brilliance of the Aegean light. Continue reading John Pawson