Most of us are heavily influenced by our surounding environment. Our interpretation and use of clothing, language, mannerisms, food, accommodation, transport, personal grooming, laws, customs, behaviour, emotion, cultures, beliefs, are all strongly linked to our environment. We very much respect two international luminaries - British architect, John Pawson and Romanian sculptor, Constantan Brancusi. Pawson is best known for bringing together much of the modern architectural movement under the catch all name of "Minimalism".
Brancusi's works revolved around the concept of "the evolutionary search for pure form".

Minimalism can be described as the "omission of the inessential". Perreaux has traditionally embraced the term from an electronic design purpose only, however minimalism has grown in significance to us as and now plays an important role in the way our new products are styled.
Our values at Perreaux are not new; many people worldwide have practiced them for centuries. British architect John Pawson embodies much of this in his work and went on to write a book called "Minimum". Importantly, his work brought together under a single umbrella the concept of the minimalist and it's wider implications.
John Pawson writes: "The Minimum can be defined as the perfection that an object achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. It is the result of the omission of the inessentials".

MINAMALIST ELECTRONICS

We wish to maximise the quality of your listening pleasure by keeping the componentry and signal path as uncluttered, short and clean possible. All components in the signal path, even those of the highest quality have an effect on the signal, thereby altering the quality of the reproduction in some way. Our aim is to recreate in its entirety, the original performance by not adding or subtracting anything, irrespective of the source.

MINAMALIST USER INTERFACE

We carefully study the user interface and par down the number of buttons and associated clutter leaving just the essential and no more. How tempting it has been over the years to loose sight of our core values as technology or trends have made it possible. That is one of the reasons why our older products still have such a high resale value today. The user interface has and always will remain simple, free from adornments, clean and uncluttered.

MINIMALIST AESTHETICS

Our products appeal to those who seek the ultimate in audio exclusivity, namely the perfect blend of "form and function". "Form and function" are both tough masters. That's why our amplifier heat sinks are not hidden, but instead feature prominently in all our designs. We make no excuses for producing some of the most distinctive high-end audio products on the planet. We let ?form and function? blend together in perfect harmony. This surely is the essence of true minimalist utilization.

MINIMALISM IN A WIDER CONTEXT

John Pawson writes:

"Clearly simplicity has dimensions to it that go beyond the purely aesthetic: it can be seen as the reflection of some innate, inner quality, or the pursuit of philosophical or literary insight into the nature of harmony, reason, and truth".

Constantin Brancusi (1876 - 1957), was a Romanian sculptor who trained initially as a carpenter and stonemason. He settled in Paris in 1904. He wished to make simple work and began an evolutionary search for pure form. While never entirely rejecting the natural world, Brancusi undoubtedly succeeds in conveying a sense of gravity by reducing his work to a few basic elements.
Paradoxically, this process also tends to highlight the complexity of thought that has gone into its making. Witness the studied serenity and distilled eroticism of Sleeping Muse, as shown below. During his later years, he polished the surface of his earlier works. Monumental, subtle and intimate, Brancusi's sculptures are rightly now considered to be the work of a modern master.

The new Perreaux "Radiance" series, as pictured above, has been heavily influenced in as much as the aesthetic design and user interface represent "the omission of the inessential" (John Pawson) and an "evolutionary search for pure form" (Constantin Brancusi).