LINOLEUM

We’ve walked on it in schools, hospitals, airports and flats: linoleum. The recipe for it, entirely renewable resources, hasn’t changed in over a hundred years. With this project, Lina Chi invites us to examine a familiar material by reintroducing the use of linoleum, but this time not as flooring.Through folding and cutting, Lina transforms sheets of linoleum into structurally sound stools, benches and tables, without using adhesives or permanent bindings. The material can easily be reshaped and recycled. Allowing it to curl, fall, bend, and move in its own distinctive way, Lina works from the essence of the material rather than towards the idealization of its properties.

Lina Chi is a designer working experimentally across product and space design through a hands-on approach. She finds curiosity in daily objects which she seeks to renew in contemporary settings. Her research is often translated into objects that carry a technique and a narrative derived from industry experimentation.