{"id":195654,"date":"2026-05-06T17:30:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T16:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=195654"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:47:38","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T10:47:38","slug":"a-manifesto-for-simplicity-the-best-powerful-design-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/?p=195654","title":{"rendered":"A Manifesto For Simplicity : The Best Powerful Design Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-783b86916c3b7a8459c1590872043199 wp-block-paragraph\">In today\u2019s world, where our lives are often filled with constant noise and clutter, the work of&nbsp;Architect John Pawson&nbsp;offers a much-needed breath of fresh air. Known as a pioneer of modern <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/pure-rebirth-of-minimalism\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/pure-rebirth-of-minimalism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>minimalism<\/strong><\/a>, A Manifesto For Simplicity: The Best Powerful Design Art. Pawson\u2019s approach is about much more than just &#8216;less is more.&#8217; To him, minimalism is a way to achieve&nbsp;total clarity&nbsp;by focusing only on what is essential. By using natural light, simple geometric shapes, and high-quality materials, he creates spaces that feel both peaceful and powerful. This is an article from the Fundamental Love printed Issue of .Cent guest-edited by Kevin Carrigan, A\/W2009<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-9dcea66857ecfb04b7dcd7f5c5e15d91 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\"><strong>Calvin Klein Shops<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-c450bc7bea5438a6df0212a92ce962ce wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\">When Kevin Carrigan of CK Calvin Klein guest-edited .Cent, one of his big influences across his creative practice, was the architect John Pawson, who had collaborated with the brand on many projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-69ac207b8d04c66636f683677675cc70 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\"><strong>John Pawson Architect <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-96a635df14b63220066e6f2b42931d8e wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\">John Pawson shows us that a room does not need many objects to feel complete; instead, it needs&nbsp;balance and proportion. In this article, we explore how Pawson\u2019s unique style helps us slow down and appreciate the true beauty of the space around us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8e2db99b4706265d404dc9bd51b147b6 wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Minimalism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3b71aed797afa7e9ddfd07088ca20520 wp-block-paragraph\">&#8216;<strong><em>John Parson&#8217;s architecture is who he is. He has said that &#8220;it&#8217;s a physical expression of a way of being. The form does not follow a particular fashion; it follows a particular life.&#8221; His aesthetic and vision of simplicity is very connected with the house of Calvin Klein, and my own vision of design&#8217;.&nbsp;<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-63a6219ade541770197e2f8625022b7a wp-block-paragraph\">Kevin Carrigan<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Barcelona_Pavilion.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Barcelona_Pavilion.jpg?resize=580%2C435&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-196145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Barcelona_Pavilion.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Barcelona_Pavilion.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Barcelona_Pavilion.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-41874c89fc0f81353a3d8e344c9b8079 wp-block-paragraph\">Early Minimal Architecture  Barcelona Pavilion by &nbsp;Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Image <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/User:John_Fader\">John Fader<\/a>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3785724ef8efc6f12b1c9e481cddd06b wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\"><strong>Architectural Designs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-519445fbefc18336544dda73f5624a6c wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\"><em>John Pawson: <\/em>When people look at my house, they say it is very beautiful but how can I live like that? To me, the thinking is all the wrong way round. The whole point is that this is how I live, so this is what my house needs to be like. The architecture is the physical expression of a way of being. The form does not follow a particular <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/category\/fashion\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/category\/fashion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>fashion<\/strong><\/a>; it follows a particular life. The life my sort of architecture follows is not one which feels right for everybody. I am passionate about my work, but I am not out to make converts. Minimalism is the simple expression of complex thought, but one valid response of an aesthetically diverse society. It can also provoke debate in society about how we choose to live and how we expect <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/category\/architecture\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/category\/architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>architecture <\/strong><\/a>to support these choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a359e1391d364e4e87df69116fd87593 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\"><strong>Minimalism and light<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-79d8838c887e7ea6711b8e57c0da7a5b wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\">I think we have to get away from the idea of minimalism as a <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/category\/art\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/category\/art\/\">style<\/a> and instead understand it as a way of thinking about space. Its proportions, surfaces and the fall of light. The vision is comprehensive and seamless, a quality of space rather than forms, places not things. This is why, in its fullest and most satisfying expression, it is not something that you can readily acquire. A perfect hemispherical basin carved out of a solid block of Carrara marble may be an exquisite object, but in isolation, it is no more than that: a beautiful basin. It is the totality of the environment of which it is a part that signifies. Minimum is maximum in drag&#8217;, writes Rem Koolhaas. A consciously inflammatory comment where simplicity is translated into a decorative effect. Drag implies spectacle. Theatre is not the principle on which everything else is hung.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3323.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3323.jpeg?resize=500%2C333&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-196129\" style=\"width:594px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3323.jpeg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3323.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e7b39d0568706520ff13da686c469ddd wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\">Novy Dvur Monastery (2004) by  John Pawson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-3847a01a8bf4d3cd840bd744b4a2d68c wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\">In the Czech Republic, this project demonstrates how beautifully proportioned lines can sit within a rural setting. Inside the chapel, light seems to emerge from nowhere, creating a deep sense of peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-fccc3ae7c87ac65d117c2e65bf207f2a wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\"><strong>Living for minimalism <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-8b59dcc808c90b776533aa5b27441c21 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\">I think it is important, too, to understand that minimalism is not a manifesto for living spartanly. This is a recurrent misunderstanding which springs in part from its association with movements where renunciation of one sort or another is a central theme. I think it is important, too, to understand that minimalism is not a manifesto for living spartanly. It is unusual for a discussion of architectural simplicity not to include some reference to Zen Buddhism, the Cistercian Order or the Shakers. One may respond to the aesthetic expressions and indeed share many of the needs which these movements have sought to address. Indeed, without adopting particular codes of behaviour, one can want a place where it is possible to be still, without necessarily wanting to pray in it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-ca18939969b2bbc7a28600a6c805b9cf wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\"><strong>The real definition of minimalism<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a49862d3159f1e0c37b104041e6b9d16 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\">Minimalism is not an <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/category\/architecture\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/category\/architecture\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">architecture<\/a><\/strong> of self-denial, deprivation or absence. In other words, it is defined not by what is not there but by the rightness of what is and the richness with which this is experienced. This is what Calvin Klein instinctively understood when he asked me to design the Manhattan store. What he had himself already perfected through the medium of fashion. This is about making the best possible contexts for the things which matter in life, paring back the accretions of surface and behaviour to what is essential. Although the glory lies in the experience of what is going on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-db4b30dd003dc85d81cb828da2281d89 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\">A profound and pleasurable experience is located in ordinary experience: in the taking of a shower or the preparation of <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/category\/food-drink\/\" id=\"https:\/\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/category\/food-drink\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">food<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-37f23c812e8e9ce887cbab3a3f7f3165 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\">People tend to focus on the idea of removal. That it is all somehow a case of throwing out the furniture and painting the walls white. Real comfort is not about a large sofa. However, in my view, many things which look as though they should be comfortable aren&#8217;t at all. Everything is at ease, where nothing jars or distracts. This emphasis on a quality of experience is important. Some people seem to have an idea that the only role the individual has in such spaces is the capacity to contaminate. In the sort of work which interests me, the antithesis is true: the individual is always at its heart.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-38a8eaa2cfcabdd23de12457599cf383 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\"><strong>Finding Profound Pleasure in the Ordinary<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0ec8748a4959795b5c77db26dc35fa34 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\">We are living through a period of rapid change, which we fuel with our hunger for the latest new thing. It is overrated. Additionally, we are preoccupied with ideas of the future while the present feels new and engaging. In architecture, this translates into rolling programs of refurbishment. We change everything and nothing. Furthermore, if our interest in the future is really the desire for a present which satisfies us, can we develop perpetually interesting forms which exist outside the forces of time and fashion? This, I believe, is what the aesthetic of simplicity offers. Perhaps I am an evangelist after all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-38880a089a17d750158e386e3cd25402 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\">John Pawson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a54116c6d005b8923129573aef7ff126 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#18417b\"><em>Paul Smith<\/em>: Adolf Loos said &#8216;Less is More&#8217;. Whereas no one living today can express that better than John Pawson. He is a specialist in the understanding of the way the scaler crosses. A walkway over the lake at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2006). Accordingly, this walkway is across the water, which means that the reflection you get is so pleasing on the eye. The vertical bronze colored hand rails take the eye to view the lake and its surroundings in an uncluttered way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-aca58ffd4b48f73893dc86ac5ecb3567 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#18417b\">Paul Smith<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-duotone-unset-1\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3327.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"428\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3327.jpeg?resize=580%2C428&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-196132\" style=\"width:573px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3327.jpeg?resize=1024%2C755&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3327.jpeg?resize=300%2C221&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3327.jpeg?resize=768%2C567&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3327.jpeg?resize=1200%2C885&amp;ssl=1 1200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/staging.centmagazine.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/IMG_3327.jpeg?w=1254&amp;ssl=1 1254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-431bd3d915eafa066de9f4c434b69984 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#150c4f\">The Sackler Crossing (2006) by  John Pawson<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-cd93e9c14b4771d342a74d842cff8fe8 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#18417b\">&nbsp;This walkway at the Royal Botanic Gardens skims the surface of the water. Its minimal distance from the lake creates a beautiful reflection. The bronze-colored handrails guide the eye across the lake. It offering an uncluttered view of the surroundings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-a133d9bb9b4b11515e7087156bee2326 wp-block-paragraph\">Find out about John Pawson here <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johnpawson.com\/\" id=\"https:\/\/www.johnpawson.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">JohnPawson.com<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e4ef7d20be7942b357918fb391e67e82 wp-block-paragraph\">Kevin Carrigan, Former Creative Director, CK Calvin Klein, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-36d14f09261e2c785c9aa318d1e9abf0 wp-block-paragraph\">John Fader, Photograph  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right has-secondary-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-e69e35bfa0103dac43ba4a53a1ac8a4a wp-block-paragraph\">Paul Smith, Fashion Designer at<a 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