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Written by Natalia Rachlin, CNN
The London-based artist and artist John Pawson has continued championed a minimalist artful that forgoes childishness in favor of accurate silhouettes and detached details. Be it in his buildings, furniture, or altar (and alike in his claimed wardrobe), Pawson best generally opts for aloof shades or variations on white, his signature palette advertence that he's no acquaintance to blush -- or so we all thought.
Pawson is best accepted for his ample portfolio of residential work, alongside boutique interiors for the brand of Calvin Klein and Christopher Kane. One of his best contempo projects complex a complete redesign of the London Commonwealth Institute's interiors, which reopened aftermost November as the new home of the Architectonics Museum.
Earlier this month, it was appear that Pawson will architectonics the trophies for the 2017 Fashion Awards. His architectonics -- a annular Swarovski clear totem with a shock of blush threaded through the centermost -- offers a adumbration of his nuanced accord to color. "Spectrum," meanwhile, absolutely exposes his rather painterly access to pigment.
From an eerie, lavender-colored absorption of St. Paul's Cathedral in London and the arenaceous blush agreement of an Art Deco façade in Miami, Florida, to a misty, ablaze dejected acropolis angle abreast Chianti, Italy, the photographs are absolutely sequenced according to hue. With the whites, beiges and ablaze grays up front, affecting atramentous captures at the back, and all the ablaze $.25 in between, the book agilely covers the abounding spectrum of color.
"The alignment that underlies the bright adjustment of these images embodies basal truths about my preferences and alive methods," Pawson explains in the book's introduction. "I am artlessly fatigued to tasks involving cataloging, alteration and ambience in adjustment and absorbed in how these processes can be fabricated adorning adventures in their own right. I am absorbed in the abstraction of a absolute act of curation."
With a advanced arrangement of content, Pawson's additional book of claimed photography (the first, "A Beheld Inventory," was appear in 2012) offers a active annual of his eye for pattern, arrangement and composition, not to acknowledgment his able compassionate of ablaze -- an aspect he additionally explores consistently and astutely in his architectural work.
"The affiliation amid photography and architectonics is an affectionate one. They are anniversary 'deeds of light'," writes Pawson, commendation the 19th aeon German biographer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who is additionally referenced in the book's epigraph.
"I am an artist afore anything. At the aforementioned time the act of demography photographs is of the aspect of how I work. I accept an absolutely beheld anamnesis and a able aptitude for application images to annal my thoughts and experiences. Where others ability account or accomplish notes, my reflex is to ability for a lens. Anniversary of the photographs actuality -- called from a accumulating abstinent in hundreds of bags -- represents one such moment of extensive for the lens."
