I met Paik Sun Kim on the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Hakgojae Gallery in Seoul, for which we created the prototype of one of his washbasin mixer designs. This gave me an opportunity to learn more about his work and I literally fell in love with the lightness and poetry of his architecture. Paik Sun Kim studied Oriental painting at university and painting is a driving force in the way he depicts his projects with barely sketched strokes, but with bold lines, lots of white and a few strokes of black. His architecture, like his objects, is a harmonious synthesis of oriental philosophy and modern aesthetics, of art and nature. We were delighted to work with him and the AK/25 is the product that emerged from the development of that first prototype, a project that fascinated us so much with its essentiality, purity and modernity.

I met Paik Sun Kim on the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Hakgojae Gallery in Seoul, for which we created the prototype of one of his washbasin mixer designs. This gave me an opportunity to learn more about his work and I literally fell in love with the lightness and poetry of his architecture. Paik Sun Kim studied Oriental painting at university and painting is a driving force in the way he depicts his projects with barely sketched strokes, but with bold lines, lots of white and a few strokes of black. His architecture, like his objects, is a harmonious synthesis of oriental philosophy and modern aesthetics, of art and nature. We were delighted to work with him and the AK/25 is the product that emerged from the development of that first prototype, a project that fascinated us so much with its essentiality, purity and modernity.