This present day, it appears secure to say that furnishings not needs to be categorized as simply furnishings. A lot of what we’ve been seeing is a high quality line that designers toe between artwork and furnishings to create a brand new style of benches, chairs, and even bookshelves. Nevertheless, there could also be nobody else higher certified to blur that boundary than Zaha Hadid Architects. In truth, they could have successfully obliterated that line with Erosion, the agency’s newest assortment designed for Italy-based Neutra Design.
Unveiled at this 12 months’s Milan Design Week 2024, the gathering consists of the Minera desk and Department console. Each are carved from a single block of the Carrara marble, a pure stone prized for its timelessness, magnificence, and sturdiness. Whereas some furnishings collections are anchored to a particular shade or apparent design factor, the 2 items within the Erosion assortment share a extra delicate theme of fluidity, discovered within the sinuous strains and curves of the furnishings.
Minera is an immaculate instance of superior, hyper-precise craftsmanship. Its inside unfavourable house is a nod on the erosion that naturally happens on the earth, a somber actuality made stunning by the desk’s materiality. The quantity eight can be a sub-theme of this piece – the practical sculpture seats as much as eight company and is barely accessible in an unique restricted run of eight items.
Just like the Minera desk, the Department console has its personal tackle balancing lightness with solidity. It options two symmetrical branches rising from the bottom on both aspect that increase to kind the tabletop of the console. The void discovered at its heart challenges the notion of what a desk’s floor is meant to appear like (that’s, a bodily continuity) and amplifies the fragile facets of the design.
ZHA Design: Patrik Schumacher
ZHA Lead Designer: Sebastian Andia
ZHA Design staff: Yutong Xia and Martina Rosati
ZHA Challenge Supervisor: Stefano Paiocchi
Images by Leo Torri Studio.
