Joyce Lin on dissecting, dismantling, and playing with conventions of chair design | Jincy Iype News

Perhaps the most created, manufactured, and used product designs globally, the shapes and materiality of chairs have evolved as civilisations have progressed, from roughly-hewn hand-made stone stools to jewel-encrusted thrones of royals, or the soulless, stainless-steel benches of subway stations. Outwardly, chairs designed by Joyce Lin flout definition, their typical form, and some, even gravity, refusing to be boxed in. On a closer look, they reveal themselves as zany objects of art and sculpture, embodying arbitrarily or in fullness, their function of seating. Through her work, the American-born Taiwanese artist and product designer deconstructs and reforms furniture forms, materials, and archetypes, in her journey as a creator to explore the condition of being a maker in rapidly changing times. Take, for instance, Lin’s…