2024-12-22T02:49:04-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149937514/the-extra-architectural-ventures-of-zaha-hadid Nicholas Korody 2016-03-31T20:46:00-04:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/6y/6y46ub1u2hgr864h.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p>Zaha Hadid will rightfully go down in history for the tremendous mark she made on architecture. But buildings weren't the only things she designed.</p><p>In fact, for the majority of her career, she worked at smaller scales, whether with painting, furniture design, or some other venture. One of her first realized projects, from 1985, consisted entirely of furniture, shelves, and other additions to a pre-existing International Style home in London at 24 Cathcart Road.</p><p>Her interest in the expanded field of design, including interiors and the objects that fill them, continued throughout her career. For some, this work indicates a crass and unapologetic commercialism. Philip Kennicott, for example,&nbsp;<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/architect-zaha-hadid-always-seemed-unstoppable-but-she-left-a-mixed-legacy/2016/03/31/06bdd5a2-f762-11e5-a3ce-f06b5ba21f33_story.html?postshare=7791459457974495&amp;tid=ss_tw-bottom" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wrote</a> for the Washington Post earlier today, "She spoke the airy language of architectural theory, with all its utopian overtones, but she vigorously branded consumer products from candles to tableware to neckties."</p><p>ln any case, her influence exceeds architecture &ndash; extending to the runway, the showroo...</p>