Where’s Zaha? #5: The Serpentine Gallery
Jul 12th, 2007
Nadja Swarovski, Zaha Hadid, Patrik Schumacher, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Julia Peyton-Jones share a joke yesterday at the opening of Lilas: an installation by Zaha Hadid Architects at the Serpentine Gallery in London. Swarovski (left) sponsored the structure; Peyton-Jones (in hat) is the gallery director and Obrist (white shirt) is the gallery’s international projects director.
The structure is open to the public from today until 21 July. An open air space, 5.5 meters in height, the installation consists of three identical fabric structures or parasols arrayed around a central point.
Fade, a series of chandeliers commissioned by Swarovski Crystal Palace (above) sit alongside the installation, whilst Zaha’s Flow vases for Serralunga (below) cluster around the installation in a presentation of several of Zaha Hadid Architects’ exclusive limited-edition designs for Established & Sons, Kenny Schachter’s Rove Gallery, Zumbotel and Max Protech Gallery.
Above: Flow vases by Hadid
Above: Patrik, Nadja and Zaha with specially commissioned Swarovski chandeliers
Above: Patrik and Zaha in front of Flow vases
Above: Patrik and Zaha on the platform of Lilas. More photos images of the structure over on dezeen.
Above: Nadja, Julia and Zaha sit under the installation parasols
Above: umbrellas… just in case
Photos and story by Caf Fean.
July 23rd, 2007 at 2:17 pm
an intresting show, with things that open up your closed mind and make you think with more fantasy and also make you see the world with different eyes .
July 26th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
BOOO
October 26th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
HOOO