notes & works

JOHN PAWSON

Cannelle Cake Shop

Lake Crossing

Pawson House 1999

Calvin Klein Store Paris
all images from www.johnpawson.com

"The only universal measure is whether the space feels comfortable and right to the people who use it. Minimalism - or, as the sculptor Donald Judd preferred to put it, the simple expression of complex thought - is only one valid response of an aesthetically diverse society, answering the needs of particular individuals and provoking debate in society at large about how we choose to live and how we expect architecture to support these choices.

I believe we have to get away from the idea of minimalism as a style and instead understand it as a way of thinking about space: its proportions, its surfaces, and the fall of light. The vision is comprehensive and seamless, a quality of space rather than forms; places, not things."

"Minimalism is not an architecture of self-denial, deprivation or absence: it is defined not by what is not there, but by the rightness of what is there and by the richness with which this is experienced."

..."the glory lies not in the act of removal, but in the experience of what is left. Profound - and pleasurable - experience is located in ordinary experience: in the taking of a shower or the preparation of food."

John Pawson from www.guardian.co.uk

HELLA JONGERIOUS

Big White Pot and Red White Vase
image from wabnitzeditions.com

Souvenir Delfts Blue B-Set
image from jongeriuslab.com

"I'm designer who uses a lot of ingredients to get to a product.
not only form, but also history, tradition and contemporary inspiration.
and I like to mix craft with industry"
Hella Jongerius from Designboom

NAOTO FUKASAWA

cell phone
image from sfgate.com courtesy of Phaidon

Plusminuszero Humidifier
image from thisnext.com


"Good design means not leaving traces of the design, and not overworking the design."

"People shouldn't really have to think about an object when they are using it. Not having to think about it makes the relationship between a person and an object run more smoothly."

(The principle of) "Design dissolves in behavior is about finding products beautiful not simply because of the way they look, but from the experience of interacting with them."

*all quotes Naoto Fukasawa from
Szita, Jane. "Without a Trace." Dwell Sept. 2006: 134-140