Form + Field Principal and Founder Christine Lin shares her path to interior design, some favorite music, the chairs she'll own forever + more in this week's Friday Five.

Christine Lin is the principal and founder of Form + Field, an interior design firm promoting joy and well-being through empathetic and creatively integrated interiors. A multi-disciplinary creative with degrees in architecture, engineering, and business from MIT and UC Berkeley, Christine cultivates every project as a partnership. “This is so cliché, but I first got into architecture when I discovered Frank Lloyd Wright in high school. I immediately made my parents drive me four hours to go visit his iconic Fallingwater House in western Pennsylvania. It introduced me to the concept of “Gesamtkunstwerk” ? “total work of art” ? which has stayed with me ever since.” Christine Lin
“It never occurred to me that interior design could be a career until I started working on my husband’s (then boyfriend’s) surf house in Santa Cruz,” Christine shared. “It was built in the 1970s and needed a full remodel and furnishings. I volunteered to design and manage the entire project because I thought it’d be a fun side project and, honestly, nothing more. At the time, I was a product manager at a tech startup, and the project not only took up all of my free time but also began intruding into my workday because that’s how much I loved doin...