Abstract

In recent years, the scales and works for local Chinese original furniture designs have been rapidly increasing. This article elaborated the inner requirement for modern families to local furniture designs. And by comparing circle chairs of “Moreless”, “Fnji”, “pusu”, “Lost&Found” and “LEXTO” with those made in Ming Dynasty, deeply analysis the modifying ways of modern local furniture design to the circle chairs with Ming style, such as tenon structure, matierals and so on. It aimed at increasing peoples’ understanding for local furniture designs, improving peoples’ attention for local original furniture design. Finally, this article supplied reference for the development of the local furniture design.

Highlights

  • More and more Chinese furniture designers escape the dominant ideology of Western design, using traditional heritage combined with the trend of Western ways instead, creating boutique furniture design

  • Ming-style furniture with its concise shape, well-structured, fine workmanship, decorated properly, simplified affordable, hard wood, texture and elegant temperament characteristics and vulgarity known to the world [1]

  • Foreign furniture design industry is projected to look for reference Ming-style chair and further development, such as Hans

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Introduction

More and more Chinese furniture designers escape the dominant ideology of Western design, using traditional heritage combined with the trend of Western ways instead, creating boutique furniture design. Ming-style furniture with its concise shape, well-structured, fine workmanship, decorated properly, simplified affordable, hard wood, texture and elegant temperament characteristics and vulgarity known to the world [1]. In the history of all kinds of furniture in the world, Only in China beautiful round-backed armchair can be found [2], it presents a unique oriental feeling, full of traditional cultural qualities of the Chinese nation. Domestic independent design has made considerable progress in recent years, “Moreless”, “Fnji”, “pusu”, “Lost&Found”and “LEXTO” and other original brand in China to the Ming-style chair inspired design variety of modern chair, this paper analyze the shape, structure, pattern, materials, we hope these native design ideas generates inspiration for the future of furniture design

Contemporary local furniture design
The evolution of Ming furniture
Simplified Shapes
Simplifies the Tenon and Modern Technology Combine
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