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John Pawson’s career as an architect and designer spans a variety of sizes and programs: from bowls to bridges, and monasteries to Calvin Klein stores. In addition to his acclaimed design work, he is the author of Phaidon’s successful Minimum, a book that paired images and captions to illustrate the notion of simplicity in a beautiful and inspirational manner. Visual Inventory presents some of the images from Pawson’s personal collection of over 200,000 digital snapshots. The book opens with an essay explaining the importance of photography as a tool for Pawson’s work, and the images are set one per page with illuminating captions. Covering a huge range of subjects, the photographs form a remarkle body of reference material. Some of the images illustrate a particular idea out form, material or space; others reflect the author’s interest in returning repeatedly to certain subjects, capturing the changes brought by different weather, light conditions, seasons and patterns of use. Each image has been chosen for the book because it is useful, offering a lesson in visual thinking. None of the photographs in the book have been cropped or altered; it is the selection, arrangement and captioning of the images that make this book unique, valule and attractive to any architect, designer, artist or student who wants to see the world around them with a stronger eye.

“As personal as it is visually arresting, this is a work of thoughtful scrutiny from one of architecture’s living legends.” – Architectural Digest.com

“. . .a monumental visual diary and soursebook.” – Life + Times

“Few of us share Pawson’s sublime austerity. It’s revelatory that he is inspired by such a wide variety of perceptions.” – Interior Design

“. . .an inspiring new book. . .” – The Huffington Post

“. . .a surprisingly maximalist wonder cabinet of visual bric-a-brac. . .This is a global seeing adventure with a master tour guide.” – Town and Country

“This unique opportunity to look alongside a designer famed for his remarkable eye is one of the best lessons in visual thinking you could hope to buy.” – The Imagist.com

“. . .the 320-page tome provides a rich glimpse into Pawson’s creative world. . .A journey through the details, textures, spatial qualities and even coincidental arrangements that have informed his designs through the years.” – Wallpaper.com

“A great visual book for leafing through for inspiration.” – Selectism.com

“Even designers. . .will find inspiration and delight as they browse this elegant anthology.” – FORM

John Pawson is well known as a minimalist architect, whose body of work includes a new Cistercian monastery in Bohemia and Calvin Klein’s first flagship store in New York. One key to his success is his remarkable sensibility: in a life spent almost constantly on the move, he is always looking for patterns, details, textures, spatial arrangements and coincidental moments that can inform his work as an architect and designer. Since acquiring a digital camera, Pawson has amassed over 200,000 snapshots. The anthology of nearly 300 images in this book has been carefully culled from this massive visual diary, and each picture is paired with an illuminating caption.