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Zaha Hadid 扎哈．哈迪德
Tea and coffee set 泡茶及咖啡用具
designed 1995–1996
The architect Zaha Hadid designed this tea and coffee set in the mid-1990s. It was fabricated by the Italian design company Sawaya & Moroni, who commissioned furniture and domestic accessories from various international design practices. The sculptural object splits into four parts, for tea, coffee, milk, and sugar. The vessels are defined by non-orthogonal forms with integrated handles and lids. The set is an elegant example of Hadid’s aesthetic, which ranges in scale from shoes and cutlery to towers and urban master plans. Like her buildings, the smooth surfaces and organic geometries of the tea and coffee set produce a fluid abstraction and dynamic spatial conditions. The manner in which the four components break apart into angular volumes is reminiscent of Hadid’s drawings, paintings, and early architecture, exploding compositions influenced by Russian constructivism. Digital software helped Hadid model complex shapes and study the interaction of solids and voids. Although her firm experiments with advanced computer-aided manufacturing techniques, this tea and coffee set was handcrafted by silversmiths.
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