Home Farm is John Pawson's self-designed minimalist second home in the Cotswolds, England, featuring three kitchens but no clutter.
John Pawson, a British designer known for his minimalism, converted the farming complex that dates from 1610 into a family retreat in the English countryside.

His signature minimalist style, displayed in projects including the recent renovation of a Barbican flat and the new Design Museum venue in London, is an extension of his own personal taste, he told Dezeen.
"I think of myself when I'm designing houses for other people," he said. "I guess people come to me because maybe they like what I do."

The collection of buildings included a farm house and barn with a cottage and stables. John Pawson converted the buildings by joining the barn to the farm house to create a home that's over 45 metres long. "It was bringing the spaces back to what they would have been and then seeing how to occupy it," he said.

With the house being so long, he decided to install a kitchen at each end of the building along  with a third kitchen in the separate guest house.
John Pawson's wife, Catherine Pawson, is a keen cook and together they are writing a cookbook based around Home Farm.

During the summer they mainly use the kitchen in the barn end, which is nearer the orchard and the pond if they want to take the food outside.
In the winter they use the smaller, cosier kitchen in the farmhouse end, although both feature fireplaces. Th...