Zaha Hadid was an Iraqi-born British architect known for her radical deconstructivist designs.

In 2004
she became the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize.

At the age of 63, Zaha has won every prize going and her collaborations beyond architecture have
stretched to extreme jewelry and improbable footwear (a pair of shoes that look like metallic
whirlwinds). During her life, she designed different things for famous people such as a handbag for
Fendi, vases for Lalique and a perfume bottle for Donna Karan.

Zaha Hadid, an interior design lover, has released in 2014 her own luxury homeware line. From wasp-
waisted candle holders to mutant life looking aqua platters worth thousands of British pounds, the
objects are the result of the practice’s ongoing pursuit of fluid geometries and experimental organic
structures. Across the collection, the ghosts of Hadid’s buildings begin to emerge. The closer you look,
the more they start from particular families, a mutant genealogy of creatures at different stages of
evolution.

Wandy Mulia, an architect who worked on the design of the Radia stools says about Zaha’s designs that
“it’s a challenge trying to adapt the structural language of a building into something the size of a piece of
furniture.”

It makes you wonder if the extreme formal language of Planet Zaha isn’t better suited to the tabletop,
where there is less to go wrong, freed from the critical realities of context and function. Perhaps these
sweeping sinews are more appropriate for the privacy of the devoted fan’s living room, rather than
imposed on the skyline for all to endure.