Interview with Elyn Lin from China

The desire to create beauty and a sense of accomplishment. I am crazy and even obsessive, when it comes to fashion and design. At the same time, I like to take risks. The exploration of beauty in the design process is very interesting which challenges me to tap my unlimited perception and imagination.

Such an aesthetic adventure is constantly stimulating my desire to explore and go into action to try. Also, the results of such adventure, aka "beautiful" designs, also make me feel very fulfilled and determined to continue on the path of being a designer.

I am the founder/director of MOZ SPACE which is more than a brand showroom in the traditional sense. It is a multi-faceted, curation-style home living aesthetic art space. To me MOZ SPACE carries an understanding of people's emotions: it is an aesthetic link between life and art, giving life a warmth through space.

The store has the world's top aesthetic furniture and art exhibits everywhere. At the same time, it holds events on a regular basis where famous contemporary artists from home and abroad can gather to jointly present diversified art exhibitions, creating a lifestyle that coexists with art.

MOZ SPACE integrates three major segments: design, home, and art. Currently it has three brands: MOZ DESIGN, MOZ CASA and MOZ ART. Through interior design, imported home furnishings, soft furnishings customization and art decoration services, we provide comprehensive, one-stop space decoration services for a high-net-worth clientele.

Adhering to the design concept of giving warmth to space, we customize personalized spaces with "emotional memory" to meet the perfect expectations of high-net-worth individuals for their ideal lives.

Design is not about the external form but about creating a space with emotion especially with us. We focus more on the private house and home segment. Rationality is the foundation of our design. That is, its design technology must be rational, for the form, the sense of space size and proportion; but the core such design presents should be the human emotion, the creation of human and space atmosphere.

I like the design with emotion and vitality, which has the emotional value for both the eyes and the mind. Because it doesn't need any explanation or lecture. It tugs at your heartstrings at the first sight, rather than just showing off technical skills.

A good design has its own life. And such design cannot be achieved without the designer's passion, accumulation and philosophy. Just like my design philosophy: "To create a space with emotion and warmth, like love at first sight between lovers. It is a sense of belonging and the mind's solace."

Modern and stylish, textured, and elegant.

My focus is residence space. I believe that each space has its own unique DNA and temperament that it inherits from its owner. So I often provide suggestions to help the owner express their feelings about life in their home space: their present life, their history and their collections will all find their proper place in my design space.

Determine the business objectives - Preliminarily unlimited private communication like friends - Content conception - Develop design ideas -Visual elements -Determine media of expression -Breaking the balance – Final execution.

Definitely. The traditional Chinese cultural content system has "benevolence" at its core, which is the same philosophy of people-oriented I mentioned earlier. We also focus on harmonizing the inner peace, the harmonious relationship between people, and the smooth relationship between people and nature.

In my design, I embody such philosophy by emphasizing the relationship with “people” and then the relationship with “space”, before I use professional design language to turn ideas into real design. Thanks to the influence of China's profound traditional culture, my design incorporates many different cultural elements from the East and the West.

First of all, I would like to thank the organizers for their recognition. Actually we spent much of our time and efforts on design and clients and we have gained a lot of accolades and reputation among our high-net-worth clients. But this award is a different kind of recognition and motivation for me and our team in the society and it will be a source of design for us to persist and continue to breakthrough and innovate.

It’s vintage classic meets Italian modernity aesthetics. Through rational structural design and a laid-back white space, the contour of the overall architecture is outlined in stark contrast of black and white which also allows the residence owner to express their absolute rational control and desire for the world.

At the same time it gives a simple, pure aesthetic sensation and visual enjoyment. But on top of the black and white, the emergence of retro-romantic green art furniture and artwork harmonizes the absolute cold space, so that the home presents a warmth, a coziness and ease. It’s a blending of art into life.

In this soft furnishing case for a minimal and rational space, we were not bound up in fetters of traditional ways to go with minimal furniture. Instead we use classic and modern mix and match style to inject a different vitality. In terms of furniture selection, we did not want to use those common furniture and art pieces on the market. There wasn’t a lot, but we hoped that each piece was meaningful and classic, and each piece of furniture was a work of art in itself.

We needed to create a luxurious yet subtle, unconventional interior full of textures and a sharp collision with interior soft furnishings against the backdrop of a minimalist hard furnishing style.

To achieve such results we used a lot of discontinued furniture of designer brands such as Kenzo sofa, Cerruti chair, as well as custom-made artworks and art carpets directly from the artists, all to give the space a unique taste and temperament.

It's more of a sense of recognition and motivation. It’s like a loud cheer on my way to create good design.

Being in this industry allows me to constantly improve my capacity to find beauty and my sensitivity to my surroundings.I have been able to connect with property owners from all walks of life who have made great achievements in their fields, as well as my excellent business partners who are at the forefront of art and fashion trends, I have also built a personal relationship with them. It is nice to meet such a group of people who can resonate with me.The industry has been pushing me to keep learning, to keep my curiosity, to challenge myself to recreate to make unique and out-of-the-box design aesthetics which has overthrown the traditions. Also I get to share this beauty to my friends who like me, which gives me a sense of joy and fulfillment.

The long history as well the culture I think.

I guess it will be designs with vitality that’s close to the raw nature. This kind of design will be purer. It will link people and nature, thus improving people's health in both soul and body, and the overall ecological balance of living.

Try to live a life of purpose, to perceive all the beautiful things around you. Design comes from real life and real life is the source of good design. Like I said, design is alive. There is no other shortcut to get such vitality. The only way is to live your life so that you can draw inspiration from it when you design and output and process it continuously.

In addition to following fashion, art, and design information websites, I hope you can go out more often to explore some excellent architectural spaces with your own eyes, and communicate and interact with different industry groups which will be sources of ideas for your future design.

We are working to release a line of lifestyle products in collaboration with artists from different industries and fields.

It's rather a group of people than any particular individual. Those who are gentle, kind, and appreciate the beauty of life. They are the reason I can understand the rapidly changing world, new emotions and people's inner world with the greatest kindness and turn all these perceptions into the design of one of my new spaces.

Love and persistence. My love for life and my dedication to my passion are the reason I have come so far. I wouldn’t say words of wisdom. This is just what I’ve been believing: there is only one ending in life, but the process can be varied, and it all depends on yourself. So stay sincere and enthusiastic, and live your life to the fullest.