GoodWeave

Spotlight On: Delinear Inc.

San Francisco, California

Chris Baisa, founder of San Francisco-based Delinear Inc., launched his rug division after 15 years of successful home furnishing design. Aligning production standards in Nepal with his personal values, Chris joined the GoodWeave^® certification program to ensure that no child labor was used to produce his modern hand-knotted rugs.

Chris has long been inspired and driven by the history, philosophies and processes involved in design. For 15 years he produced hand-crafted home furnishings for retail stores and private clients. With an intense love of modern design and a desire to create new designs true to the ideals of the past, Chris founded Delinear in 1995.

Under the Delinear name, Chris has designed several furniture collections for Mike Furniture Store; the "On Land" collection of hand-knotted Tibetan rugs for elson & company; the "Toledo" lighting collection for Seascape; the "Moran" dining table and bench for the LIMN Design Collection; and the now-classic "Gridloc" table design for Pure Design of Canada.

Spring 2003 marked the launch of the Delinear hand-knotted rug collection, which reflects the same devotion to timeless aesthetics, attention to detail and classic beauty.

Articles about Chris have appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, Dwell and Taschen’s California Interiors. His "Gridloc" table is featured in the San Francisco MOMA and his "Passage" rug design was named one of the 20 best designs of 2000 by Interior Design.

To learn more, visit www.delinear.com.