because the LINE came first (did you vote??!!)

I believe that all shapes, all surfaces and lines and shading, all
aspects of design evoke emotions by associations—with traditional
shapes of our own culture, with the proportions, surfaces of the human
body, with shapes and movements in nature...[It is] in our—the
designers'—power to talk to and play with the emotional responses of
our audiences, just as musicians do.
Eva Zeisel, 2000

by M for Materialist