John Pawson Spectrum

John Pawson

Spectrum

John Pawson Spectrum

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New York, New York State, USAApril 2013

009

Kodai-ji, Kyoto, JapanOctober 2015

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Doha, QatarJune 2012

055

Madrid, SpainFebruary 2013

Namunyak, KenyaMarch 2013

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Petra, JordanSeptember 2010

077

Jaffa, IsraelApril 2013

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Berlin, GermanyJune 2013

125

143

Marfa, Texas, USAApril 2014

144

Marfa, Texas, USAApril 2014

El Calafate, ArgentinaFebruary 2017

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London, UKDecember 2016

167

London, UKSeptember 2015

206

Little Milton, Oxfordshire, UKAugust 2015

207

225

Chastleton, Oxfordshire, UKOctober 2014

226

Kew, London, UKOctober 2016

Knokke, BelgiumMarch 2013

275

Notting Hill, London, UKMay 2013

276

299

Bendinat, Mallorca, SpainMay 2016

300

Tel Aviv, IsraelMarch 2017

Binding:Hardback

Format:245 × 210 mm9 5/8 × 8 1/4 inches

Extent:352pp

Number of images:320 col ills

Word count:c.2000 words

ISBN 978 0 7148 6350 4

John Pawson is well known as a minimalist architect, whose body of work includes a Cistercian monastery in Bohemia and the new Design Museum in London. One key to his success is his remarkable sensibility: in a life spent almost constantly on the move, he is always looking for patterns, details, textures, and spatial arrangements that can inform his work. Since acquiring a digital camera and an iPhone, Pawson has amassed over 200,000 snapshots. His architecture might be known for its limited colour palette – primarily white – but his photographs tell another story, one of endless colour. Spectrum takes you on a multi-coloured journey across the world through a carefully curated sequence of 320 images. Whites lead into yellows, oranges, reds, purples, blues, greens, browns, greys, black… It’s a riot of colour from one of the most unlikely sources. Spectrum will amaze those who think they know John Pawson.

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