Chinese-style furniture
Chinese style furniture is famous for its carving, especially in the carving to the text, palindrome, full volume for the meaning, trapezoid, phoenix feet, cat feet, geometric form;The material is mainly precious wood, and the decoration is mainly carved lacquer, inlay and paste.Direct color painting, from the line, the most common.
In the long river of history that Chinese classical furniture develops, ever formed 4 kinds of most important design style obviously.
1. Chu Style Furniture (Zhou Dynasty to Southern and Northern Dynasties)
2. Song style furniture (Sui, Tang, Yuan and early Ming)
3. Ming style furniture period (mid-Ming Dynasty to early Qing Dynasty)
4. Qing style furniture period (after the middle of the Qing Dynasty)
Ming - style furniture shape linear concise, straight and light.Because the color and lustre grain of lumber itself is beautiful, so bright type furniture applies Xiu paint rarely, rub only transparent wax to be able to show the simple sense of lumber itself and natural beauty adequately namely.The production process is fine and reasonable, all with precise and ingenious tenon and mortise joint parts, the large plate is embedded in the frame groove by saving the edge method, solid and firm, can adapt to the change of cold, hot, dry and wet.
Ming style furniture decoration to plain surface, local decorated with a small area of lacquer carving or through carving, with numerous lining Jane, simple but not thrifty, exquisite but not overelaborate.Furniture lines male neck and fluent.Of furniture whole long, wide and tall, whole and local, local and local tradeoff proportion is very appropriate.The shape is thick and thick, the form is various.
Clear type furniture is on modelling with the style of furniture of bright type is completely different, behave to go up in modelling massiness above all, the overall dimension of furniture wants wider than furniture of bright type, want big, with this corresponding, aspect dimension, component also increases subsequently with material.Its main characteristic is, the modelling is solemn, the carving is heavy, the volume is wide, the bearing is magnificent, separated from the Song Dynasty, Ming Dynasty furniture beautiful and practical honest temperament, formed the Qing Dynasty furniture style.Decorative patterns are often used to symbolize the flowers and plants, figures, birds and animals, such as good luck, more children and more blessings, longevity and official prosperity.
6. Nordic furniture
Human life consciousness, the furniture of high quality material, make the northern European furniture in taste people have high evaluation of word of mouth, emphasis on creating warm color of the home is the key of the boreal Europe furniture style, therefore beech, woven cloth, mottled tonal ceramics, straw as the main material, boreal Europe furniture presents diversity and environmental protection concept.
Nordic Europe includes Denmark, Finland, Norway, Sweden, etc. Scandinavia is the main country.Boreal Europe furniture on the one hand, based on the main features of its organic modelling and light feeling, the other side is rooted in its beautiful qualitative feeling, and high-tech production techniques, the Nordic designers understand "mature modelling is the perfect type of", hence to fruity has natural and abstract sculpture feeling with models, known as the main furniture model possessing it.
At the same time the Nordic designers think "to display the material properties to the utmost, is the first processing of any perfect design", so they use smart techniques, from wood, cane, all the furniture such as textiles, metal material in the special texture of calculating the most perfect combination and performance, and give a person a kind of very natural, rich, comfortable, friendly visual and tactile sense.
7. Southern European-style furniture
Furniture of southern Europe type is given priority to with Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, because it is the nation that Latin department and same environment, furniture of reason southern Europe each country all has its common characteristic.
Before the era to the ancient Egyptian style as the main trace object, the type is rough, the structure is simple, in the beginning of the century to the Roman furniture as a major feature, the style of the use of a very rigorous rectangular structure, the use of copper, imitation of natural object modeling;Medieval furniture features imitation Roman and Byzantine styles;Furniture of southern Europe type is given priority to with Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, because it is the nation that Latin department and same environment, furniture of reason southern Europe each country all has its common characteristic.
In the fourteenth century, the so-called Gothic style was adopted, still imitating the simple and rigid style of the Middle Ages.In the fifteenth century, the style of the Renaissance originated from the ancient simple style, and in the seventeenth century, it entered into the brilliant baroque style, using curves of materials and taking the romantic spirit as the type design.
The 18th century is the emergence of rococo style, modeling with rocks and clam shells and other curves as decorative features, the end of the 18th century neoclassical style is popular again, the 19th century does not have a certain style and special type, the 20th century modern furniture in the style of simple streamline as the theme, and emphasis on the Functionalism.
Romanesque period and Gothic period between the development in Italy and western Europe, imitation of the Romanesque style of furniture with animal head and claw as the main decoration, its main characteristics are plain.The characteristic of Spain and Portuguese furniture is the leather that uses embossing, engraving, dyeing, bronzing to wait for processing, serve as furniture shop to act the role of.
The furniture of southern Europe belongs to the mainstream furniture in the western furniture, and the development clue is very obvious, basically taking the religious and court furniture as the mainstream, and then gradually infiltrating and dispersing to the countryside;Furniture belonging to palace furniture from original Egyptian, later Rococo;Gothic furniture and later Ballot furniture began in religious churches.
8. Southeast Asian-style furniture
Strictly speaking, Southeast Asian furniture, or Southeast Asian style furniture, does not belong to an innovative mainstream furniture. It is a kind of furniture products developed on the basis of integrating local culture and foreign culture, just like Korean furniture and Japanese furniture.
Southeast Asia furniture is being designed gradually the traditional culture of the modern concept of shirt-sleeve west and Asia, pass different material and tonal collocation, make the southeast Asia furniture design on retaining its own characteristics, generation more the change of rich and colorful, especially in southeast Asia furniture with Chinese characteristics, pay attention to details of design, more and more get the welcome of people.
Southeast Asia furniture more cases should be called the household style belongs to furniture, home textiles, home act the role ofing "mix build" common culture, a blend of bedroom atmosphere, its one of the most obvious feature is mix build, is a bit in the central plains "stewed food, the flavor of the northeast" one-pot ", all kinds of soft, hard, wood, stone, cany, textile products are stirred up together, only natural and comfortable;Because be such, southeast Asia style household gets rhythm especially fast urban gens love.
Southeast Asia furniture is being designed gradually the traditional culture of the modern concept of shirt-sleeve west and Asia, pass different material and tonal collocation, make the southeast Asia furniture design on retaining its own characteristics, generation more the change of rich and colorful, especially in southeast Asia furniture with Chinese characteristics, pay attention to details of design, more and more get the welcome of people.Southeast Asia furniture also has its originality in the application on material.Most Southeast Asian furniture uses two kinds of above different material to mix and braided and become.The width, narrowness, depth and depth of the materials between rattan and wood, rattan and bamboo form an interesting contrast. The mixed application of various weaving techniques makes the furniture work become a handmade artwork, and every detail is worth savoring.
9. Modern style furniture
About modern furniture, we will not talk more, because these products are inherited and developed on the basis of classical furniture, mainstream furniture, expression forms are myriad, it is difficult to explain one by one;We look at modern furniture as long as the grasp of a few:
1. Which mainstream furniture is this kind of furniture developed from?
2. What kind of living atmosphere and culture these furniture will bring to consumers?
3, where is the focus of these furniture, is the atmosphere, is the function, is the highlight, how to locate.