The World Motivation
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
“I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.”
— Zaha Hadid · Furniture
I don't particularly like showing furniture on pedestals, but for whatever reasons you always have to in museums.
Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
When I first came to Guangzhou in 1981, it seemed such a hard and dour place with everyone in Chairman Mao uniforms.
Half of architecture students are women, and you see respected, established female architects all the time.
The commission process in America and England is different. In America, they do it through an interview process, and it's really based on whether they like you or not. I mean, it's nothing to do with whether you do the best scheme or the worst scheme.
It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
A house full of new furniture doesn't mean a whole lot.
I also have intense relationships with furniture... probably because we practically had none when I was growing up.
Many gardens are hijacked by their plants and end up looking like a room overstuffed with furniture.
I don't enjoy living in a white box flooded with light. I like shadows, small spaces, old furniture.