John Pawson has spent over thirty years making rigorously simple architecture that speaks of the fundamentals but is also modest in character.

Whether at the scale of a monastery, a house or a saucepan, everything is traceable back to a consistent set of preoccupations with mass, volume, surface, proportion, junction, geometry, repetition, light and ritual.

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.