Spatial clarity

摘要

The Design Museum's exhibition, John Pawson: Plain Space, begins at home, with Pawson's own house. When his first house was published in 1994, it felt radical in its material and spatial clarity. Going beyond banishing skirtings and cornices, the project hollowed out its Victorian host, inhabiting the shell with restructured spaces of whiteness. Domesticating the visual language of the gallery, the interiors described a version of modernism turned in on itself, a hermetic space of luxuriant sparseness.