Jumat, 09 Desember 2011

Seamless Collection, London, UK

The Seamless collection of furniture, featured in a 2006 London exhibition for Phillips de Pury & Company and Established & Sons, represents a dialogue of complex curvilinear geometries and detailed ergonomic research, through which Zaha Hadid sought to reinvent the balance between furniture and space.

Crest Bench, Photography © Jack Coble

The collection’s evolutionary lineage is easily discernable, with clear connections to earlier projects such as Z-Scape (2000), Ice Storm (2003), Aqua Table (2005), the Hotel Puerta America interiors (2005) and Elastika (2006).

The design language explored throughout the collection emphasizes the usage of complex curvilinearity, 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. 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.