John Pawson is the king of reductive design. “His work, which ranges from the high Zen Cathay Pacific lounge in the Hong Kong airport to the groovy chic of the Wakenabe and Wagamama restaurants in London, is so reduced to the essential, it ventures beyond the old Mies van der Rohe saw ‘less is more’ into a kind of New Age sacred space.” – The Globe and Mail (Canada)