Object Notes

In the 1990s, Italian firm Sawaya & Moroni produced a range of highly inventive silver tableware designed by leading international architects and designers. This tea and coffee service, with its fragmented crystalline structure, represents a contribution by architect Zaha Hadid.

In the 1990s, Italian firm Sawaya & Moroni produced a range of highly inventive silver tableware designed by leading international architects and designers. This tea and coffee service, with its fragmented crystalline structure, represents a contribution by architect Zaha Hadid.

In the 1990s, Italian firm Sawaya & Moroni produced a range of highly inventive silver tableware designed by leading international architects and designers. This tea and coffee service, with its fragmented crystalline structure, represents a contribution by architect Zaha Hadid.

In the fusion of function and form, Zaha Hadid created seating that is both sculpture and furniture.

Glittering with 133 gemstones mounted on stems radiating from a starburst cluster, the Celestial Centerpiece was exhibited as one of the triumphs of the International Silver Company at the 1964 New York World's Fair. Designer Robert J.

Ward Bennett, who designed silver for Tiffany & Co. in the 1960s, created his own line of holloware for a short period in the 1970s and early 1980s.

Ted Muehling's fascination with a porcelain figurine in the window of a pastry shop in Munich in 1998 led him to the Porzellan-Manufaktur Nymphenburg, a small factory founded on the grounds of the Nymphenburg Palace in the 18th century.