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John Pawson’s architecture is about a total vision of an environment. The design of a range of household objects was the next logical step in creating harmonious living spaces in which nothing jars.

In this inaugural collection for when objects work we find the bowl, a perfect and seamless hemisphere. The striking sculptural quality of the piece derives from its simplicity of form, monumental scale and its ability to sit obliquely to the surface on which it is set.

Sand collected directly from Belgium's North Sea coast, entirely invisible but no less fundamental, moves freely within the double-skinned hemisphere, effectively internalizing the function of a base and allowing the bowl to sit in any position on a surface.

John Pawson was born in 1949 in Halifax, Yorkshire. After a period in the family textile business he left for Japan, spending several years teaching English at the business University of Nagoya. Towards the end of his time there he moved to Tokyo, where he visited the studio of Japanese architect
and designer Shiro Kuramata. Following his return to England, he enrolled at the Architecture Association in London, leaving to establish his own practice in 1981.

From the outset the work has focused on ways of approaching fundamental problems of space, proportion, light and materials, rather than on developing a set of stylistic mannerisms - themes he also explored in his book Minimum, first published in 1996, which examines the notion of simplicity in art, architecture and design across a variety of historical and cultural contexts.

John Pawson eschews decorative distractions in favor of pristine settings that seem almost monastic in their spatial and chromatic restraint. Enrichment, when it comes, often takes a utilitarian form - kitchen counters topped with four-inch-thick slabs of marble, floors of wide-plank rift oak from Denmark. The title of the monograph coinciding with his 2010 exhibition at London’s Design Museum, says it all - John Pawson: Plain Space (Phaidon).

Early commissions included homes for the writer Bruce Chatwin, opera director Pierre Audi and collector Doris Lockhart Saatchi, together with art galleries in London, Dublin and New York. Whilst private houses have remained a consistent strand of the work, subsequent projects have spanned a wide range of scales and building typologies, ranging from Calvin Klein Collection’s flagship store in Manhattan and airport lounges for Cathay Pacific in Hong Kong, to a condominium for Ian Schrager on New York’s Gramercy Park, the interior of a 50-metre yacht and sets for new ballets at London’s Royal Opera House and the Opéra Bastille in Paris.

Over the years John Pawson has accrued extensive experience of the particular challenges of working within environments of historic, landscape and ecological significance, key examples including the Sackler Crossing - a walkway over the lake at London’s Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew - the Cistercian monastery of Our Lady of Nový Dvůr in Bohemia and the former Commonwealth Institute in London, scheduled to open as a new permanent home for the Design Museum in 2015.

Source: www.johnpawson.com

When objects work is the vision of its director Beatrice de Lafontaine. The Belgian company produces and distributes exclusive objects designed by leading designers and architects whose work shares a preoccupation with basic forms, immaculate function and a timeless idiom.

William Morris famously observed that one should "have nothing in your house which you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful". From its first collection shown at the Milan Furniture Fair in 2001, when objects work has pursued the principle that everyday objects can be useful whilst having aesthetic features.

In this manner they've commissioned designers to explore the theme of decorative art as superlative domestic equipment in the fullest and most challenging ways possible and to develop innovative manufacturing solutions where necessary. Most of the objects are hand-made with authentic materials & traditional craftsmanship.

Bowl

Bowl in lacquered steel or brass black bronzed or copper, invisible sand moves freely within the double-skinned hemisphere allowing the bowl to sit in any position on a surface

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Diameter 35cm

Made in Belgium

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