Seamless furniture collection
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大型建築スケールで自らの独特の作風を実現してしまう建築家Zaha Hadid
彼女独特の作風は一目見ただけでわかるほどアイデンティティが確立されていますがファニチャーデザイナーとしても優秀ですね。
More Zaha: here are some renderings of Zaha Hadid’s Nekton stools plus more photos of her Seamless furniture collection, which was created for a selling exhibition held at Philips de Pury & Company in New York last December.
The range - which, besides the four interlocking Nekton stools, includes shelving designs called Serif (shown below); a lounge chair called Gyre; a chaise called Crest and a cabinet called Swash - will be exhibited in Milan this April by Established & Sons.
The rhythm of folds, niches, recesses and protrusions follows a coherent formal logic. With the formal dynamic of a fluid mass, we are able to emphasize the continuous nature of the design and the smooth evolution between otherwise disparate elements.
The evolutionary lineage of the pieces is easily discernable through re-visitation of past projects such as Z-Scape (2000), Ice Storm (2003), Aqua Table (2005), the Hotel Puerta America interiors (2005) and Elastika (2006). Seamless represents the culmination of this morphological series and a new beginning in terms adding new surface sensations.
The design language explored within this collection of pieces emphasizes the usage of complex curvelinearity, seamlessness and the smooth transition between elements. A formal integration of diverse forms allows individual furniture pieces to be considered within the overall mass of the ensemble.
Whilst individual elements are nevertheless morphologically affiliated, they can be read not only as a whole, but as loose fragments that drift around the scene as if captured in a magnetic field.
The pieces, initially morphologically conceived, are shaped further by typological, functional and ergonomic considerations. However these further determinations remain secondary and precariously dependent on the overriding formal language of the collection. A margin of strangeness invites a stimulation that has evolved between the morphogenetic logic and adaptations with regard to functional affordances.
The Seamless collection embodies the organic design paradigm and evolving architectural language of Zaha Hadid Architects. The New York exhibition at Phillips de Pury & Company will be our first integrated collection and a prefect continuation of the Zaha Hadid retrospective at the Guggenheim.”
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