The cultural origin of European solid wood

Nordic style furniture

Nordic furniture is known for its simplicity, with a strong post-modernist features, focusing on smooth line design, represents a fashion, return to nature, reverence for the original wood flavor, plus modern, practical, exquisite art design style, is reflecting the modern urbanites into the new era of a certain orientation and melody.

The Scandinavians have a special talent for modeling. Danish design in the furniture kingdom can be called a classic; Swedes are good at making modern; Finns Xiang moving natural inspiration; Norwegians advocate heavy and rustic. They have their ****ty side in style, but also reflects different personalities.

Danish design

In the world of wooden furniture design, the world's first Danish design is the most classical." Danish design" seems to be a special term, as Newton's laws and Archimedes' principles, with unquestionable authority.

The essence of Danish design is human-centered. If you design a chair or a sofa, Danish design not only pursues the beauty of its shape, but also pays more attention to the structure of the human body, paying attention to how its curves reach a perfect combination with the human body when in contact. It breaks through the rigid concept of craftsmanship and technology, and melts into the human subject consciousness, thus becoming full of rationality. Known as the father of Danish furniture design Clint, like a painter, in order to study the practical function of the seat, he would draw a variety of human body sketches before the design, in the proportion and size of the perfect, and the use of skills to play the characteristics of the material to the extreme, so as to create a beautiful artifacts.

■ Swedish modern furniture

Nordic countries of furniture production, have their own design style, and the Swedish style is characterized by elegance and modern.

Sweden's modern wind, had made the Mattson chair best-selling. This designers named Mattson chair trend, once scouring Southeast Asia. Unlike Danish furniture, the Swedish style does not emphasize the personality, and pay more attention to the craftsmanship and marketability of the higher mass furniture research and development. Swedish furniture will occasionally be influenced by the Danish style, the use of teak, rosewood and other valuable materials to produce high-level furniture, but traditionally, the Swedes prefer to use the country's abundant pine, birch as the material for the production of white wood furniture. Design style, the pursuit of more convenient stacked cascade structure, bright lines, simplify the flow, in order to produce modern and popular, and as a result of the condensation of the modern style of Swedish furniture.

■ Finnish modeling talent

The Finnish style pursued by Finnish artists and designers, is the spirit of nature out of the water into the design work, so that it Xiang moving a kind of artistic wisdom and inspiration from nature.

To the 60's, the Finns began to enter a kind of introspection, gradually the design style precipitation for the plain, practical, and closely integrated with the life, more in-depth use of existing domestic materials, expanding the consumer base, expanding the scale of production, and gradually formed the modern characteristics of Finnish furniture. They emphasize the charm of the design at the same time, committed to the research and development of new materials, and finally produced a sophisticated shape, color and lustre of elegant plastic furniture, refreshing.

■ Norwegian furniture personality

Norwegian furniture personality is like the Norwegian mountains and mysterious fjords, everywhere permeated with heavy and simple, rich Nordic temperament. Norwegian furniture design is ingenious and original. It is in the molding plywood and metal use, often giving people an unexpected unique effect, and play a role in strengthening the style.

Norwegian furniture style is roughly divided into two categories, a type of design for export purposes, in the choice of materials and technology design are very careful, elegant and noble quality, for the furniture in the best works. The other category is advocating natural, simple, with the rich flavor of the Nordic countryside, very folk art style.

Looking at the furniture manufacturing in the four Nordic countries, is indeed a unique landscape in the world furniture kingdom. This Nordic wind quickly blowing around the world, which is no accident. Nowadays, even a lot of domestic families have begun to favor the original atmosphere of the Nordic furniture, which represents a fashion, return to nature, respect for the flavor of the original wood, plus modern, practical, exquisite artistic design style, is reflecting the modern city people into the new era of a certain orientation and melody.