Headed to Hong Kong for HK Art Week? Don’t miss M+’s pop-up of Zaha Hadid Design at The M+ Shop inside the museum from Tuesday, 19 March 2024.
M+ x Zaha Hadid Design Special Collection marks the first ever collaboration of Zaha Hadid Design (ZHD) with a Hong Kong cultural institution, and will be available at the pop-up, featuring twelve limited-edition lifestyle pieces inspired by the iconic architectural projects designed for Hong Kong by legendary British-Iraqi architect Zaha Hadid (1950–2016).
The M+ x Zaha Hadid Design Special Collection is inspired by Hadid’s winning entry in the competition in 1983 for The Peak Leisure Club, a luxury recreational and residential complex that was to be built high in the hills overlooking Hong Kong. The proposal, which was her first project to gain widespread recognition, is highly illustrative of the formal experiments that would characterise her work throughout her career. Its complex and shattered forms would become associated with the deconstructivist movement in architecture during the late 1980s. The project is widely regarded as Hadid’s breakthrough project which first earned her international renown and is a pivotal moment in her explorations of painting as a design tool. Eleven paintings of the award-winning project are currently on display in Things, Spaces, Interactions at the East Galleries of M+, alongside prints and plans for the project.
M+ x Zaha Hadid Design Special Collection includes a range of fine China dinnerware in a remastered version of the ZHD classic ‘Beam’ collection, signature silk kimono, luxury carpets, showpiece lenticular posters, collectible enamel pins, and trendsetting T-shirts and tote bags. All products represent the architectural landmark which could have been hovering over the city of Hong Kong, projecting how it would have been experienced from different angles of day and night.
ZHD aims to experiment with and to apply the latest technological and material advancements across different scales and objects. Now helmed by Co-directors Woody Yao and Maha Kutay, ZHD coherently translates and applies Hadid’s ethos to new designs in lighting, furniture, fashion accessories, jewellery, interiors, exhibitions and set design.
The collection is available for purchase at The M+ Shop and online.
About Zaha Hadid Design
Established in 2006 by Zaha Hadid, Zaha Hadid Design (ZHD) operates under the lead of Co-Directors Woody Yao and Maha Kutay who ensure consistency with the Founder’s ethos by continuing to coherently translate and apply Hadid’s methodological approach to any new design. Experimenting, testing and implementing the latest technological and material advancements, ZHD’s portfolio is built on over forty years of research expressed at different scales and typologies encompassing lighting, furniture, fashion accessories, jewellery, interiors, exhibitions, and set design. In 2022, the studio unveiled Zaha Hadid Design: Untold –– an exhibition coinciding with the 10th anniversary of the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University designed by the late Zaha Hadid. The Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at MSU currently holds the largest and most comprehensive permanent collection of works by Zaha Hadid Design in North America, highlighting the impact of the late architect’s legacy also through current projects and collaborations developed by the design studio she founded.
About M+
M+ is a museum dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting visual art, design and architecture, moving image, and Hong Kong visual culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District, it is one of the largest museums of modern and contemporary visual culture in the world, with a bold ambition to establish ourselves as one of the world’s leading cultural institutions. M+ is a new kind of museum that reflects our unique time and place, a museum that builds on Hong Kong’s historic balance of the local and the international to define a distinctive and innovative voice for Asia’s twenty-first century.
