Court documents reveal warring executors agreed to rebrand practice - but disagree on motive
The feuding executors of Zaha Hadid鈥檚 estate have agreed that the late architect鈥檚 eponymous practice should stop using her name 鈥� but court papers reveal contradictory reasons for the move.
High Court documents seen by 星空传媒鈥檚 sister title BD show Hadid鈥檚 longstanding collaborator and ZHA principal Patrik Schumacher accepts that he consented to drop the name 鈥淶aha Hadid鈥� from the practice at the request of his three fellow executors 鈥� artist Brian Clarke, Lord Palumbo and Rana Hadid, Hadid鈥檚 niece.
But while they claim the move was to enable him to practice under his own name and to correspond with the end of royalty payments connected with the Zaha Hadid name, Schumacher alleges he only agreed to change the practice name to help the administration of the estate.
The court papers do not mention potential future names for ZHA 鈥� but Companies House lists Schumacher as a director of Studio 9 Employee Trust Ltd, which was incorporated in March last year and has eight directors. They are Schumacher