Zaha Hadid left an indelible mark on the architectural world, transforming the look of contemporary architecture with her striking abstract and modernist designs. Fluid forms and Constructivist aesthetics — such as bold colors and softly angular edges — are the keynotes of her buildings and her furniture. Hadid’s work is the essence of energy and drama.
Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid studied at the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London and made that city her home for much of her life. Hadid’s design sensibility was formed more by art than architecture. In college, she was first inspired by the Russian avant-garde school of artists. The influence of painters such as Wassily Kandinsky and Kazimir Malevich is apparent in Hadid’s early work, in which she created abstract paintings and drawings to convey her ideas. The distortion of geometric shapes is a particularly prominent and recurring theme in her work. Hadid founded her firm in 1980, from which she launched architectural triumphs like the MAXXI Museum in Rome and the Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art at Cincinnati's Contemporary Arts Center.
Hadid’s furniture and sculptures provide her admirers with the chance to bring the beauty and drama of her architecture into their homes. These designs are true centerpieces that fill even staid rooms with fluidity and rhythm. The organic forms of her designs bring a sweeping sense of movement to stationary objects. The furniture exhibits a kind of playfulness and creates a relationship with the user. Hadid transformed furniture into fine art.
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Slamp Avia Large Pendant Light in White Fade by Zaha Hadid
By Slamp, Zaha Hadid
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Zaha Hadid’s visionary, fluid, and dynamic luminous architectural objects bring the designer’s revolutionary and iconic semantics to any domestic or public space, inspiring harmony b...
Other
SLAMP Avia Small Pendant Light in White by Zaha Hadid
By Slamp, Zaha Hadid
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Zaha Hadid’s visionary, fluid, and dynamic luminous architectural objects bring the designer’s revolutionary and iconic semantics to any domestic or public space, inspiring harmony b...
Other
Slamp Avia Extra Large Pendant Light in White Fade by Zaha Hadid
By Slamp, Zaha Hadid
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Zaha Hadid’s visionary, fluid, and dynamic luminous architectural objects bring the designer’s revolutionary and iconic semantics to any domestic or public space, inspiring harmony b...
Other
SLAMP Aria Medium Pendant in Transparent by Zaha Hadid
By Zaha Hadid, Slamp
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Zaha Hadid’s luminous architecture is visionary, fluid and dynamic, infusing the revolutionary and iconic semantics of the celebrated architect into domestic and public interiors; th...
Other
SLAMP Aria Large Pendant in Transparent by Zaha Hadid
By Zaha Hadid, Slamp
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Zaha Hadid’s luminous architecture is visionary, fluid and dynamic, infusing the revolutionary and iconic semantics of the celebrated architect into domestic and public interiors; th...
Other
SLAMP Aria Small Pendant in Transparent by Zaha Hadid
By Slamp, Zaha Hadid
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Zaha Hadid’s luminous architecture is visionary, fluid and dynamic, infusing the revolutionary and iconic semantics of the celebrated architect into domestic and public interiors; th...
Other
Aria Gold Pendant by Zaha Hadid for Slamp
Located in Houston, TX
Zaha Hadid’s luminous architecture is visionary, fluid and dynamic, infusing the revolutionary and iconic semantics of the celebrated architect into domestic and public interiors; th...
Other
Lasvit Eve Pendant in Clear Matt Glass by Zaha Hadid
By Zaha Hadid
Located in Boston, MA
Composed of fifteen glass pieces arranged in one intriguing ensemble, Eve is a chandelier that combines traditional glassmaking techniques with parametric design. Informed by Hadid’s...
Glass
LUMA Pendant lamp by Zaha Hadid for Wonderglass
By Zaha Hadid, WonderGlass
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Luma’s tubular sculptural anatomy elegantly transforms into a flared luminaire. Subtly diffused light is achieved via expert material manipulation. Each individual piece of glass has...
Metal
Sculptural "Serene" Pendant Light, White Plaster, Handmade by Benediko
Located in Freiburg im Breisgau, DE
Serene is a hand-sculpted plaster pendant light, conceived as both a functional light fixture and a refined sculptural object. Its sweeping, biomorphic silhouette emerges from a soli...
Metal
Normann Copenhagen Superpose White Pendant Lamp by Frederik Kurzweg
By Normann Copenhagen
Located in New York, NY
The Superpose lamp shines a soft light outwards and a direct light downwards while its perforated pattern casts lively shadows on its surroundings. Let the lamp stand out above a table, use it as mood lighting in a corner or as an impressive ceiling lamp. Regardless of the context, Superpose continually seduces the viewer with new impressions...
Steel
Contemporary Pendant Lamp ‘Blade 270’ by Zieta
By Oskar Zieta, Zieta
Located in Paris, IDF
Pendant Lamp 'Blade 270' Stainless steel (polished) by Zieta Stainless steel (inox) W. 270 H. 12cm D. 6cm The lamps use LED and OLED lights, with a separate US-certified charger t...
Stainless Steel
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