1997, for Sawaya & Moroni, Sterling silver, four parts: a coffee pot (height 26.9 cm), a teapot (height 25.7 cm), a milk jug (height 19.2 cm), a tea caddy (height 9.8 cm), hinged covers, all parts hallmarked: 925 SAWAYA MORONI, with Italian assay marks. (DRAX)

Artist’s Proof P.A. 03/3. Purchased on May 21st 1999.

Unused. All parts in original box.

With accompaining correspondence.

Lit.:
Zaha Hadid: Architektur/Architecture, Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna 2003, p. 172 (another example) - Z. Hadid P. Schumacher-G. Fontana-Giusti, Zaha Hadid Complete Works: Major and Recent Works, New York 2004, p. 14, p. 218/219 (another example) - P. Jodidio, Hadid: The Complete Works 1979-2013, Cologne 2009, p. 518 (another example) - A. Betsky, Zaha Hadid: Complete Works, New York 2009, p. 220 (another example)

Provenienz:
private collection, Austria, since 1999

Fitting into one another, the coffeepot, teapot, and sugar form a whole, similar to a three-dimensional puzzle. The form changes, depending on whether the service is being used or not. In the “presentational mode” it is a compact structure that can easily be carried around. Formally, the shape is based on the idea of combining extremely vertical and extremely horizontal elements and contrasting them with one another. The teapot shows a wide, flat, and organic shape, whereas the coffeepot rises up from this “landscape” like a tower. In the “functional mode”, the objects are turned around and tilted. Each form is facetted in such a way that it can be canted along its axis. Thus the spouts are exposed, which results in an entirely new composition.