Zaha Hadid - Design New York Thursday, June 8, 2023 | Phillips

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  • “There are 360 degrees, so why stick to one?”
    —Zaha Hadid
     

    Zaha Hadid’s Seamless furniture collection constituted the Iraqi-born, London-based architect’s first stand-alone collection of furniture, with previous designs having been created only for site-specific projects. An extension of her architectural practice’s exploration into a world of “seamless fluidity,” her office described the venture as “a built manifesto towards the potential for a new language of design and architecture, which is driven by the latest in digital design processes and the most cutting edge manufacturing techniques.” The limited-edition series comprised five different furniture designs – a chair, a chaise, a set of stools, and shelves – all of which exhibit Hadid’s forward-thinking design language of curvilinearity and seamlessness.

     

    Another Gyre chaise from the edition is in the permanent collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

    • Provenance

      Phillips de Pury & Company, New York
      Acquired from the above
      Wright, Chicago, “Important Design,” May 18, 2008, lot 206
      Acquired from the above by the present owner

    • Literature

      Zaha Hadid: Seamless, exh. cat., Phillips de Pury & Company, New York, 2006, n.p.
      The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, New York, Fall 2008, p. 55

Property from a Private New York Collection

97

"Gyre" lounge chair, from the "Seamless" series

2006
Polyester resin, polyurethane lacquer.
25 1/4 x 94 x 72 in. (64.1 x 238.8 x 182.9 cm)
Produced by Established & Sons, London. Number 6 from the edition of 12. Underside with two brass roundels impressed Designed by/Zaha Hadid/Seamless/2006/Gyre 6 /12 and Established/& Sons/British Made.

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Estimate
$12,000 - 18,000 

Sold for $38,100

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New York Auction 8 June 2023