introducing the pawson furnishings assortment
Dinesen, Denmark’s main producer of handcrafted wood flooring and merchandise, has introduced a bespoke furnishings assortment with long-term collaborator and revered British architect John Pawson. The Pawson Furnishings Assortment is a brand new excessive level in a 30-year-long relationship, with fifth-generation Hans Peter Dinesen taking on the corporate right this moment. As he tells designboom, the furnishings collection marks his ‘first direct collaboration with John and his workplace‘. In response to the duo, the idea behind the design distills the ethos of the Danish phrase Umage, which suggests going past what is predicted or thought of doable, because it expands this sense of development that Dinesen and Pawson deliver to their work. The gathering will likely be introduced in 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen in June, in Dinesen’s showroom, which will likely be remodeled into an condo designed by the architect and furnished with the brand new items.
Pawson Furnishings Assortment | picture © Claus Troelsgaard | @claustroelsgaard
impressed by the 1992 furnishings collection with DINESEN
The roots of the Pawson Furnishings Assortment for Dinesen might be traced again to the unique furnishings assortment John Pawson created with Dinesen in 1992, solely for Pawson Home, London. John found the corporate whereas designing his personal house in Notting Hill and ordered Douglas Fir planks for the flooring. In two immediately defining gestures, the planks had been laid uncut, in a single piece, from the entrance of the home to the again, and boards of corresponding width had been utilized to manufacture a desk and stools. Pawson’s imaginative and prescient noticed the ground develop into a vital architectural component, giving the area a way of path. ‘The structure is dependent upon inserting issues nicely within it and having the best issues to place in. You possibly can negate an area by doing the mistaken factor within the mistaken place,‘ the architect shares with designboom.
picture © Claus Troelsgaard
The bespoke furnishings for Pawson Home additional championed Dinesen’s joinery in new and sudden methods. The Pawson assortment relies on the span of a Dinesen floorboard, whose pared-back kinds consequently seem like lifted straight out of the ground. It contains The Eating Sequence, which encompasses a eating desk, bench, and stool, a design that John Pawson drew again in 1992. This design has been up to date, including a shadow hole element. The highest and legs of the eating desk are fabricated from two boards. Whereas the shadow hole between every pair of boards was left open in Pawson’s authentic design, this new iteration quietly expresses the hole utilizing a special number of timber — combining Douglas Fir planks with a slender insert of Dinesen Oak. ‘The furnishings may be very elemental. It’s kind of taken to the best type. It appears as if it’s all logical and pre-designed,’ John Pawson tells us. Stools and benches are produced from a single Douglas Fir board with a strong central backbone.
Hans Peter Dinesen (left) and John Pawson (proper) | picture © designboom
The Lounge Assortment is a brand new complementary addition to the unique Eating Sequence, produced from Stable Douglas wooden. It features a lounge chair, lounge desk, couch, and daybed. Expert native cupboard makers constructed the wood body in Denmark, upholstering it with textiles from the Danish firm Kvadrat. The sofa and armchair categorical the boards on the aspect elevation, whereas the cushions proceed the theme of assembled and layered components. The daybed and low desk are conceived as decrease variations of the eating desk. As every bit of furnishings is at the moment made to order, the top buyer can select the specified cloth from the Kvadrat upholstery library. ‘To seek out the best materials is an extended course of that units some form of limitation by way of scale. We simply wish to guarantee that each piece is nicely made and could have as lengthy a life as doable. We additionally must see how the world responds to the furnishings,’ Hans Peter clarifies.
Pawson Furnishings Assortment distills the ethos of the Danish phrase Umage | picture © Claus Troelsgaard
a take a look at dinesen and pawson’s shared historical past
The 1992 fee was in contrast to something Dinesen had beforehand delivered, and its success ignited a lifelong friendship and enterprise partnership between fourth-generation Thomas Dinesen and John Pawson that has remained robust to this present day. Since Thomas stepped down in 2021, his son Hans Peter has taken the reins to proceed the household’s reference to Pawson for this new furnishings launch. Past the 1992 fee and Pawson Furnishings Assortment, the three-decade-long collaboration between John Pawson and Dinesen contains tasks of various scale and sort, together with personal properties, exhibitions, museums, retail, and chapels.
Thomas Dinesen and John Pawson | picture courtesy Dinesen
Between 2017 and 2018, the architect constructed a wood hapel in southern Germany utilizing 61 Douglas Fir logs. Positioned on the outskirts of Unterliezheim, a Bavarian village, the construction is meant to be encountered as a discovered object — moderately than a traditional work of structure. Dinesen, who labored carefully with six native forest house owners, fastidiously sourced and picked up the chapel’s logs. The Douglas Fir lends the inside a heat and tactile high quality. On the identical time, the chapel’s sturdy and uncooked exterior look will proceed to evolve, and climate will change over time, turning into a part of the forest it inhabits.
picture © felix friedmann
One other memorable challenge is Pawson’s 2016 reworking of London’s Design Museum interiors. Contained in the museum — which shaped his first main public work — a collection of calm, atmospheric areas are articulated round an atrium comprising 2,700 sq. meters of Dinesen Oak planks that add to the architectural expertise of the dramatic constructing. Sightlines are oriented in the direction of the construction’s hyperbolic paraboloid roof, which spans the size of the constructing, rising on the 2 opposing corners to create an overhead manta ray-like construction. To ease circulation, galleries, studying areas, the café, and the occasions area are organized across the central atrium.
interiors of the Design Museum in London | picture courtesy Dinesen
Shifting on to retail, Pawson and Dinesen joined forces to finish the redesign of the Jil Sander flagship retailer in Paris. Set in a traditionally listed constructing amid the French capital, the architect has, in collaboration with Jil Sander artistic administrators Lucie and Luke Meier, created a sublime inside that feels grand and heat on the identical time — with a fantastic chevron flooring and sculptural staircase in Dinesen Ash tying collectively the totally different rooms. The area encompasses a rounded room, a gallery entrance, a welcoming area, a podium within the center, and benches alongside the aspect partitions. The corridor turns into a stage for exhibitions and sources of inspiration.
