In a career spanning four decades, Zaha Hadid’s pioneering vision redefined architecture and design for the 21st century and captured imaginations across the globe. Collaborating with iconic brands to create exquisite one-off, as well as limited-edition pieces, Hadid’s works are within some of the world’s most respected museum collections and have been showcased in acclaimed retrospective exhibitions worldwide.
The Zaha Hadid Edition celebrates these remarkable collaborations with exquisite pieces that convey Zaha Hadid Design’s virtuosity with fluid geometries and the immaculate craftsmanship of their manufacture.Curated for Design Shanghai, the Zaha Hadid Edition includes renowned pieces for Lalique, David Gill, Sawaya and Moroni, ROVE, Wiener Silber and Citco.
Creating the “Zaha Hadid” label for her signature design collection, Hadid reinterpreted the relationships inherent within her architecture. “My product designs and architecture have always been connected; some of our earliest projects were designs for products and interiors. These design pieces are very important to me and my team.
They inspire our creativity by providing an opportunity to express our ideas through different scales and through different media; an essential part of our on-going design investigation,” Hadid had explained during her retrospective exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, New York.
With her extensive archive of sketches, paintings and drawings of Hadid’s own hand that have been meticulously compiled over the past 40 years, her team continue the work instigated by Hadid.
As the world celebrates Zaha Hadid’s remarkable legacy, the Zaha Hadid Edition and Collection convey the unrivalled innovation that so defined her work. Designed with Hadid’s unwavering belief in the power of invention in a diversity of materials, both traditional and contemporary, each piece is unmistakably Zaha.
Outstanding new pieces for 2017 continue the fluid lines and subtle, organic geometries that define the Zaha Hadid Collection.The Duo salt and pepper grinders are signature Hadid; their twisting, interlocking forms in stainless steel echo the integration and coherence within her architecture.
New vases and bowls continue the evolution of the Serenity and Braid collections—an effortless manipulation of the beauty within natural forms—crafted and finished to perfection; while additions to the Beam dinnerware set and range of Sketch glasses convey the intricate detail and composition of Hadid’s revolutionary paintings. Source and images Courtesy of Zaha Hadid Design.