John Pawson

‘I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black’ Henri Matisse

‘Life is one long decay, no? There's a lot of beauty in it. Like the patina in an old city’ Urs Fischer

‘...the deep insistent red of things time-worn beyond memory…’ John C. Van Dyke, The Desert (1901)

Eternal impermanence

'The tones of grey, pale turquoise and pink will prevail’ Christian Dior

Triptych

Frozen Air

‘Every perception of colour is an illusion’ Josef Albers

A grid of nine squares

Red Earth