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year 2005
material plastic
source title The Furniture Machine: Furniture Since 1990
info The sweeping planes and shard-like character of much of her architecture has led Hadid to be described as a deconstructionist. Latterly compound curves entered her vocabulary as computers have infiltrated her design process. Reduced to the scale or furniture, her forms were highly refined miniature landscapes that looked honed by wind and weather. She called them ‘Z-scapes’, but in this context they are undoubtedly Blobjects. At 4 metres (13ft) long, her Aqua table was equally monumental. Its three legs, made of laminated polyurethane resin, were like pendulous blisters suspended below the plane of the translucent blue green silicone table top, through which their internal shadowy voids were half detected like the depths of the ocean. The folding of surfaces into volumes related the table to Hadid’s architecture, as exemplified by the Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg she was completing at the time.
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year 2005
material plastic
source title The Furniture Machine: Furniture Since 1990
info The sweeping planes and shard-like character of much of her architecture has led Hadid to be described as a deconstructionist. Latterly compound curves entered her vocabulary as computers have infiltrated her design process. Reduced to the scale or furniture, her forms were highly refined miniature landscapes that looked honed by wind and weather. She called them ‘Z-scapes’, but in this context they are undoubtedly Blobjects. At 4 metres (13ft) long, her Aqua table was equally monumental. Its three legs, made of laminated polyurethane resin, were like pendulous blisters suspended below the plane of the translucent blue green silicone table top, through which their internal shadowy voids were half detected like the depths of the ocean. The folding of surfaces into volumes related the table to Hadid’s architecture, as exemplified by the Phaeno Science Centre in Wolfsburg she was completing at the time.
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