We just lately discovered in regards to the work of Danish paint firm Linolie & Pigment from architects Mentze Ottenstein, who utilized the model’s Aqualinum paint on the interiors of their Dinesen nation home renovation. With a concentrate on linseed paint and coloured wooden oils, Linolie & Pigment is ripe to be used on historic surfaces and in restoration initiatives.
In reality, founder Thor Grabow took half in his first restoration challenge on the age of 17 when his dad and mom restored their outdated farm in Blirup, a city south of Aarhus in Denmark. Thor was allowed to take part within the course of, shadowing restoration architect Nikolaj Hyllestad and studying the custom of limewash and linseed oil. It was then that Thor visited a paint manufacturing facility, the place he witnessed the method of dusty pigment and oil being reworked right into a richly coloured paint. “I used to be greater than fascinated, and solely in a manner that an outspoken 17-year-old can provide you with, I requested straight if I might purchase the manufacturing facility when it sometime went on sale,” he explains. After he studied as a constructing designer and labored in a restoration workplace, that day got here: Thor purchased the colour manufacturing and arrange Linolie & Pigment, changing into a favourite supply of architects in Scandinavia and past.
