What are the styles and characteristics of American furniture?

American style is the decoration style from America. American furniture, as its name implies, comes from American furniture. American furniture is the most typical representative of colonial style furniture. So what styles do American furniture have? What are the characteristics of American furniture? Bian Xiao will show you around today.

First, the style classification of American furniture

The styles of American furniture can be divided into three categories: classical, neoclassical and pastoral.

1, classical. Americans advocate antique, so classical style, also known as American style, has always occupied a major position in American furniture. This style of furniture, with its tall and heavy shape, delicate details and original and natural colors, gives people a feeling of being expensive but not revealing. Old age is also a major feature of classical style.

2. Neoclassicism. Neoclassical style from simple to complex, from whole to part, exquisite workmanship, carved with gold, are impressive. On the one hand, it retains the general style of materials and colors, and still strongly feels the traditional historical traces and rich cultural heritage. At the same time, it abandons the overly complicated texture and decoration and simplifies the lines. Neoclassical style combines nostalgic romantic feelings with modern people's needs for life, which is compatible with luxury, elegance and fashion, and embodies personalized aesthetic views and cultural tastes in the post-industrial era.

3. rural areas. American rural style, also known as American country style, belongs to a natural style. American country style advocates returning to nature, and strives to show carefree, comfortable and natural pastoral life interest in indoor environment, and often adopts simple texture of natural wood, stone, rattan, bamboo and other materials. Ingeniously set up indoor greening to create a natural and elegant atmosphere.

Second, the characteristics of American furniture

1, mostly made of solid wood. In the selection of materials, American furniture rarely uses new furniture materials, and most of them use solid wood. Common American furniture woods are peach, cherry, maple and pine. According to the data, peach blossom wood and cherry wood are very precious wood, because it takes decades or even hundreds of years for them to grow into usable wood. This kind of carefully selected precious wood has laid a good foundation for American style, and its careful coating and carving on the surface reflect the uniqueness of American furniture.

2, advocating classical charm. In design, American furniture often has gorgeous maple piping, walnut mosaic lines, knob-shaped handles, and furniture legs that imitate animal shapes. These classic shapes reveal their unique classical charm invisibly. In terms of color, American furniture abandons bright and bright colors and uses more calm colors such as dark brown, which also caters to the classical charm of American style.

3, strong practicality. Another important feature of American furniture is its strong practicality. All kinds of novel and convenient furniture shapes make American life more comfortable. With the passage of time, those wooden American furniture, although leaving some old traces of use, still play its greatest use function as before.

4. Pay attention to monochrome. American furniture rarely uses too many colors, but prefers to use a single color. In the whole home environment, the uniform and low-key colors make American furniture less flashy and more calm. At this point, the exquisite dripping water reflects the extravagance of American furniture.