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Georg Jensen’s Posthumous Collaboration with Zaha Hadid
The Danish design house partnered with the renowned architect on a jewelry collection prior to her death in March.
This cuff from the Georg Jensen x Zaha Hadid Collection was inspired by the architect’s world-renowned works.
New York--On Sept. 1, Zaha Hadid, the late Iraqi-British architect famous for works like the Heydar Aliyev Cultural Centre in Azerbaijan, will have another finished project to her name: a jewelry collection with Danish design house Georg Jensen.
The collection was designed prior to Hadid’s death in March and was inspired by her architecture.
The collection consists of five rings and three bangles, produced in sterling silver and black rhodium-plated sterling silver with black diamonds. The pieces range from $600 to $30,000 retail.
Before her death, Hadid said of the collaboration, “Working with Georg Jensen presented an opportunity to express our ideas in different scales and through different media. Our starting point was the many links to nature at Georg Jensen. There is an inherent integrity within the organic structural logic found in nature and we often look at the coherence of natural systems when we work to create environments.
“Our challenge was to translate that into something that can be worn; to reinterpret the rich history and tradition of the Georg Jensen design approach into something new.”
A black rhodium-plated sterling silver cuff with black diamonds
Sterling silver bangle
Black rhodium-plated sterling silver ring with black diamonds
Black rhodium-plated sterling silver ring with black diamonds
Hadid established her namesake architectural firm in London in 1979. In 2004, she was the first woman to be awarded the Pritzker Architecture Prize. She was also the first woman to win the Royal Gold Medal in her own right from the Royal Institute of British Architects on behalf of the British monarch in 2015.
This was the first collaboration between Hadid and Georg Jensen, which has partnered with many designers and artists since its founding in Copenhagen in 1904.
David Chu, Georg Jensen chairman and chief creative officer commented, “There is continuity in Zaha’s collection and, indeed, in her work, that reflects the history of our iconic jewelry design celebrating nature’s seemingly simple-yet-mathematical forms. It is a proud continuation of Georg Jensen’s modernist design signature and a century of collaborating with designers whose vision transforms the way we think.”
The Georg Jensen x Zaha Hadid Collection will be available for purchase Sept. 1 at the Georg Jensen Bleecker Street boutique in New York, as well as at GeorgJensen.com. It will also be available at the company’s Madison Avenue boutique when it opens later this fall.
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