John Pawson

The work of Gwendolyn and Guillane Kershbaumer was introduced to the office by Terence Conran and the sisters have since been designing a series of objects, hand-crafted in wood, that will be exhibited in the V&A in September, as part of this year’s London Design Festival. Rather than a specific item of furniture for a specific project, the starting point for the commission was the idea of exploring the surfaces and objects you touch and use everyday, each action representing a moment in the life of a room — switching on a light, opening a door, hanging a shirt on a hook, taking a book down from a shelf. Some of these are very small physical elements in themselves, but they come together to make the atmosphere of a space.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photography
John Pawson, Catherine Pawson