Long before she became the first woman to win architecture’s coveted Pritzker Prize in 2004, Zaha Hadid began her explorations into spatial intervention with the redesign of her bedroom as a child in Baghdad. Throughout her career, Hadid’s works strove for a total harmony between landscape, exterior and interior space. Before her untimely death, Hadid produced numerous furniture collections – as well as housewares, garments, jewelry and even a car – in the sinuous style that became her trademark. Via Phillips
The sofa is part of the large Wave Collection, which was presented to the public in the Milan nightclub ‘Studio 54’. It was one of the most avant-garde projects of its time, produced by the Italian company Edra, only 3 or 4 were made. The company’s then-creative director Massimo Morozzi was also an architect.. Via Dorotheum.
Hadid’s ‘Moraine’ sofa was commissioned by the Italian company Sawaya & Moroni in 2000. Conceived originally as part of a suite of furniture inspired by glacial formations, the ‘Moraine’ breaks new ground in its radical curvilinear asymmetrical form, a piece of furniture that is both sculpture and seating, abstract and functional. The sofa’s moulded, free-form shape also gives physical expression to the digital design technology that has played, and will continue to play, a seminal role in Hadid’s highly creative design process. Examples of the sofa are held in corporate, private and institutional collections throughout the word including die Neue Pinakothek Museum, Munich and the Donna Karan headquarters in New York.
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