• The Whitescale palette is developed by Jown Pawson for Scandinavian colour and design house, Blēo.
    Whitescale by John Pawson
    Whitescale is a meticulously calibrated gradient of whites, based on specific vegetable and mineral colour references. The 13-colour palette reflects John Pawson’s enduring preoccupation with creating the optimum conditions for the play of light and shadow.

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    • JO PA 01 Salt by John Pawson
      Salt — a paint colour developed by John Pawson for Blēo
      from 40,00 kr
    • JO PA 02 Marble by John Pawson
      Marble — a paint colour developed by John Pawson for Blēo
      from 40,00 kr
    • JO PA 03 Chalk by John Pawson
      Chalk — a paint colour developed by John Pawson for Blēo
      from 40,00 kr
    • JO PA 04 Cotton by John Pawson
      Cotton — a paint colour developed by John Pawson for Blēo
      from 40,00 kr
    • JO PA 05 Flour by John Pawson
      Flour — a paint colour developed by John Pawson for Blēo
      from 40,00 kr
    • JO PA 06 Milk by John Pawson
      JO PA 06 Milk by John Pawson
      from 40,00 kr
    • JO PA 07 Vellum by John Pawson
      Vellum — a paint colour developed by John Pawson for Blēo
      from 40,00 kr
    • JO PA 08 Almond by John Pawson
      Almond — a paint colour developed by John Pawson for Blēo
      from 40,00 kr
    • JO PA 09 Limestone by John Pawson
      Limestone — a paint colour developed by John Pawson for Blēo
      from 40,00 kr
    • JO PA 10 Silver Birch by John Pawson
      Silver Birch — a paint colour developed by John Pawson for Blēo
      from 40,00 kr
    • JO PA 11 Cashmere by John Pawson
      JO PA 11 Cashmere by John Pawson
      from 40,00 kr
    • JO PA 12 China Clay by John Pawson
      JO PA 12 China Clay by John Pawson
      from 40,00 kr
    • JO PA 13 Gypsum by John Pawson
      Gypsum — a paint colour developed by John Pawson for Blēo
      from 40,00 kr
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    Portrait of designer John Pawson for Scandinavian colour and design house, Blēo.

    John Pawson CBE (Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Design and Architecture) has spent over thirty years making rigorously simple architecture that speaks of the fundamentals but is also modest in character. Alvar Aalto’s bronze door handle has been described as the ‘handshake of a building’. Similarly, Pawson’s own work engages with the essence and philosophy of space through everything the eye sees or the hand touches. Whether at the scale of a monastery, a house, a saucepan or a ballet, everything is traceable back to a consistent set of preoccupations with mass, volume, surface, proportion, junction, geometry, repetition, light and ritual—architecture. In this way, even something as modest as a fork can become a vehicle for much broader ideas about how we live and what we value.