中文

Lin Fanglu

Winner of the 2021 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize

Lin Fanglu has completed her Master and Bachelor’s degree in Household Product Design at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 2016 and 2012. During her undergraduate studies, she had the privilege to enter No.9 Design Studio of CAFA and work under the supervision of Prof. Jiang Li. In 2011 she participated in the exchange program in Karlsruhe University of Art and Design, Germany, and Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan. Upon her come back to China, Lin Fanglu decided to experience first-hand the traditions and folkways of Chinese ethnic minorities and researched in-depth the disappearing techniques of tie-dyeing from the Bai women community in Yunnan and Dong traditional hand-woven cloth-bright cloth in Guizhou.


Numerous visits to the villages have resulted in new indigo series that have participated in several exhibitions including at the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Art, and the Beijing Exhibition Center. The new series inspired by Dong Minority and created in 2021 have been exhibited at Design Miami/ Podium, Shanghai November 2021.


Fanglu’s works transcend cultures and languages, with a combination of luxury and heritage, and novelty. Energetic and colorful, her works are complex in references to Chinese tradition crafts and history as well as to the art world itself. She transforms traditional forms into contemporary ones to be inherently Chinese, inherently Asian. The beauty rich mixture of shapes respects the past in a playful serenity. 


Her work “Iron Drum Sofa” has been collected by London Zero-Carbon

Pavilion during the Shanghai World Expo in 2010. In 2016 she won both the Young Designer of the Year and the Innovative Brand of the Year at Beijing’s China Building Decoration Association Awards In 2019 she participated in the First Biennale of Natural Dyes, China National Silk Museum.


From 12 November 2020 to 28 February 2021 her work “She Stone” was exhibited at Pompidou Museum in Shanghai for the exhibition “Design and The Wondrous: On the Nature of Ornament”.


In 2021 she became one of the 30 finalists and won the first prize of the prestigious LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize among thousands of applicants from around the world. Her work was collected by LOEWE Foundation and donated to the "Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France.



Winner of the 2021 LOEWE FOUNDATION Craft Prize

Lin Fanglu has completed her Master and Bachelor’s degree in Household Product Design at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 2016 and 2012. During her undergraduate studies, she had the privilege to enter No.9 Design Studio of CAFA and work under the supervision of Prof. Jiang Li. In 2011 she participated in the exchange program in Karlsruhe University of Art and Design, Germany, and Tokyo University of the Arts in Japan. Upon her come back to China, Lin Fanglu decided to experience first-hand the traditions and folkways of Chinese ethnic minorities and researched in-depth the disappearing techniques of tie-dyeing from the Bai women community in Yunnan and Dong traditional hand-woven cloth-bright cloth in Guizhou.


Numerous visits to the villages have resulted in new indigo series that have participated in several exhibitions including at the Art Museum of the Central Academy of Fine Art, and the Beijing Exhibition Center. The new series inspired by Dong Minority and created in 2021 have been exhibited at Design Miami/ Podium, Shanghai November 2021.


Fanglu’s works transcend cultures and languages, with a combination of luxury and heritage, and novelty. Energetic and colorful, her works are complex in references to Chinese tradition crafts and history as well as to the art world itself. She transforms traditional forms into contemporary ones to be inherently Chinese, inherently Asian. The beauty rich mixture of shapes respects the past in a playful serenity. 


Her work “Iron Drum Sofa” has been collected by London Zero-Carbon

Pavilion during the Shanghai World Expo in 2010. In 2016 she won both the Young Designer of the Year and the Innovative Brand of the Year at Beijing’s China Building Decoration Association Awards In 2019 she participated in the First Biennale of Natural Dyes, China National Silk Museum.


From 12 November 2020 to 28 February 2021 her work “She Stone” was exhibited at Pompidou Museum in Shanghai for the exhibition “Design and The Wondrous: On the Nature of Ornament”.


In 2021 she became one of the 30 finalists and won the first prize of the prestigious LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize among thousands of applicants from around the world. Her work was collected by LOEWE Foundation and donated to the "Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France.