Moon Sofa

The first woman to receive the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2004). Born in Baghdad, trained at the Architectural Association in London, Zaha Hadid built a practice grounded in the rejection of the right angle and the embrace of fluid, dynamic form. Her buildings — from the MAXXI in Rome to the Guangzhou Opera House — redefined the limits of what architecture could be. Her design objects applied the same logic: architectural thinking at domestic scale.

The Moon Sofa (2007), manufactured by B&B Italia, is among the most recognised furniture objects of the early 21st century. This example is upholstered in Rubelli — a Venetian textile house founded in 1858, producing fabrics for palaces and private commissions across Europe. The combination of Hadid's radical form with Rubelli's historic craft produces a singular object: two great traditions, one piece.