Zaha Hadid Design offers a Chess Set in a limited number of 100 that echoes the much awarded legendary titular Architect’s inimitable forms. The Field of Towers Chess Set in Silver has the undeniable look of the “Queen of Curves” work and is priced at $15,819 USD per set.
Zaha Hadid Chess Set
Zaha Hadid (1950 – 2016) was the first woman to ever win the prestigious Pritzker Prize for Architecture in 2014. She also received the UK’s most prestigious architectural award, the Stirling Prize, in 2010 and 2011. In 2012, she was made a Dame by Elizabeth II for services to architecture, and in February 2016, the month preceding her death, she became the first woman to be individually awarded the Royal Gold Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects.
It is said that her sweeping, fluid forms changed the geometry of buildings. As technology began creeping its way into design she embraced it but Hadid continued to hand-draw her buildings and make models of them because she didn’t want to limit herself and her designs to only to what the computer could do.
Hadid herself described the essence of her style very simply: “The idea is not to have any 90-degree angles. In the beginning, there was the diagonal. The diagonal comes from the idea of the explosion which “re-forms” the space.”
As you can see, this even applies itself to the Zaha Hadid Field Of Towers Chess Set, which has no 90 degree angles.
The Field of Towers Chess set is handmade of resin and polyurethane. It has a lacquered and polished chess board with a silk-screen printed grid and polished resin pieces. The pieces are neatly stored in the tray which forms the base of the board. Back in 2014, a black crystal version was created in a limited number of 75.
Price per set: $ $15,819 USD
Buy it here
