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The Asymmetric Mirror
Zaha tells of how, as a girl, she grew up surrounded by modernist houses in a garden suburb of Baghdad, her parent’s 1930s house filled with “funky” 1950s furniture.
When her parents refurnished the house they commissioned new furniture from a workshop in Beirut: all angular, modernist and chartreuse in colour. In particular, for Zaha’s room there was a new asymmetrical mirror, with which she was thrilled – sparking a lifelong love of asymmetry. After reorganising her room around her new furnishings, Zaha’s cousin saw the result and asked her to do the same for her bedroom too. Then her aunt asked her to redesign her bedroom and so a career began... I (rgw)
Zaha aged six in Baghdad, 1956. (Photo courtesy Zaha Hadid Architects)
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