SMALL: LARGE: XL: Biography John Pawson was born in 1949 in Halifax, Yorkshire. After a period in the family textile business he lived for a number of years in Japan, moving to Tokyo towards the end of his stay, 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 Pawson’s work has focused on ways of approaching fundamental problems of space, proportion, light and materials - themes he also explored in his book Minimum, which examines the notion of simplicity in art, architecture and design across a variety of historical and cultural contexts. Concept Pawson’s design sets one hand-made glass cylinder within another, the outer cylinder aring into a re ned disc lip at its lower edge. The lamp casts light downwards, but its clear body also glows along its entir length. COMPONENT MATERIAL COLOUR / FINISH SHAPE HAND MADE GLASS CRYSTAL HOLDER ALUMINIUM LIGHT FITTING S/L/XL: Direct Emission PACKAGING WEIGHT AND DIMENSIONS NICKEL (METAL FINISH) BLACK SMALL LARGE XL