British architect John Pawson CBE, who founded

his firm of the same name in 1981, is often hailed

as the father of modern architectural minimalism.

Although a title he would most likely poke fun at,

for almost forty years Pawson has championed

nothingness as the most straightforward form of

beauty.

During his lustrous career, simplicity as a

philosophy is something he has explored in retail

designs for Jil Sander, Calvin Klein, Christofer Kane

and in various monasteries, churches, musea,

residential projects, hotels and now a complete

contemporary bathroom collection for COCOON.

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JOHN

PAWSON

British architect