What are the basic characteristics of modern interior design

Modern design emerged in the 1920s and became popular in Europe and the United States. "Modern design" flourished as a design credo until the 1970s. Under the influence of modernism, the "internationalist style" developed from architectural design reached its peak in the late 1950s, monopolizing the entire architectural world. However, the cold, monotonous and impersonal design concepts of the modernist style made many young architects and designers tired of it and eager to find and discover a new way of expression. Starting from the Pop design in the 1960s, designers from various countries began various attempts of anti-modernist design, using American popular culture to transform the modernist design, and post-modernist design thus opened the curtain. 1966, American architect and theorist Robert Venturi published the book "Complexity and Contradictions in Architecture", in which he firstly affirmed the importance of modernism in the history of design. Modernism in the history of design made a great contribution, but also put forward the modernist style design concept of ugly, banal and uniform, seriously hindering and restricting the designers to play the talent, and led to the public appreciation of the monotonous and boring interest. At the same time, he also pointed out that modernism has completed its historical mission in a particular period, and in the new period seems outdated. Although Robert Venturi did not explicitly put forward the law of post-modernist design, he showed a strong interest in the "chaotic style, ambiguous meaning, symbolic and metaphorical architectural style", and put forward the theory that design creation must have "chaotic vitality". The book has been influential in the world. This influential work produced a great shock in the young generation of architects, and became the monologue of postmodernist aesthetic ideals, the manifesto of the change of modern architecture and interior design, leading to a comprehensive challenge to the international modernist style in the design world, and guiding the direction of the development of postmodern design. 1977, the British architectural critic Jenks published his book The Language of Postmodernist Architecture, which laid the foundation for the development of postmodernist design. that laid the cornerstone of postmodernist design theory. He strongly advocated the polysemy, duality, and multiple alternative cultural values of postmodernist architecture and interior design, moving toward metaphors, metaphors, vernaculars, and new ambiguous spaces. Postmodernist design is not a design style with a clear purpose, but a design trend and concept that revises modernism in form. A whole set of thought system and design method about architecture was firstly proposed, which determines that postmodernism style is firstly manifested in architectural design, and then influence to other fields. Its way One is that postmodernism has become a trend of development, a symbol of fashion, and postmodernist architects are the representatives of this fashion, and at the same time cross the boundaries of the design field, and become designers in other design fields. Secondly, architects considered product design to be a part of architectural design, and likewise invested great enthusiasm in it, thus leading to the development of postmodernist gung-ho design in other design fields. Interior design gained full freedom of expression in this period, full of individualistic colors and bold fantasy components. Many architects and interior designers engaged in the dual practice of architecture and interior, so the design concepts of avant-garde architects began to have an impact on interior design, and gradually became clear. Post-modernist interior design concepts completely abandoned the seriousness and simplicity of modernism, often with a historical metaphor, full of a large number of decorative details, deliberately create an ambiguous, confusing mood, emphasizing the connection with the space, the use of non-traditional colors, the contradictory nature of which often makes people bored, and this boredom is the typical post-modernism on the modernism of the past 50 years. mentality. Postmodernism interior design concept is mainly manifested in the following characteristics: a. Emphasis on the form of metaphors, symbols and cultural and historical decorativism. Post-modernist interior design uses numerous metaphorical visual symbols in the works, emphasizes the historical and cultural, affirms the symbolic role of decoration for the visual, decoration is back in interior design, decorative consciousness and techniques have a new expansion, light, shadow and architectural components constitute a permeable space, became an important means of large decorative. Post-modern design movement of decorative for the integration of a variety of styles to provide a diverse environment, so that different styles coexist, to this **** enjoy the relationship close to the meaning of the occupants and habits. Second, the eclectic stance that advocates the fusion of old and new, and compatibility. Post-modernist design is not simply to restore the historical style, but to look into the vast historical buildings abandoned by the modernist movement, recognizing the continuity of history, purposeful and conscious selection of classical architecture in the representative, meaningful things, the historical style to take a mixture of splicing, separation, simplification, deformation, deconstruction, synthesis, etc., the use of new materials, new construction methods and structural The construction method is used to create a new form language and design concept. Third, strengthen the ambiguity and playfulness of the design means. Post-modernist interior designers use split and analytical techniques to break down and decompose the existing form, intention pattern and mode, resulting in a certain degree of ambiguity and polysemy, the cold, rational characteristics of modernist design rebel against a flirtation with the means used in the details of the design to emphasize the irrational factors to achieve a design of relaxation and tolerance. The concept of postmodernism does not have a precise definition so far, which is determined by the multiplicity and complexity of postmodernism. Uncertainty is one of the fundamental characteristics of postmodernism, and the concept has multiple meanings. The spiritual impact of postmodernism on contemporary people is all-encompassing, and at the level of the theory of thinking, it is possible to recognize the critical spirit of postmodernism and the heterogeneous and diverse cultural intentions, and the postmodernist interior design can only obtain its own regulations and concepts in the midst of its "different things". Modernism and postmodernism is not clearly defined and strict demarcation, the latter will be the concept of modernism to be re-selected and assessed, so that part of its redevelopment in the new historical conditions, postmodernism space, metaphysics and metaphors, etc., but also contains the style and appearance of modernism, so it is also known as the "radical eclecticism ". The development direction of modern interior design is an academic subject worth exploring, in the design of diversified today, interior design has produced more new styles, but it is certain that the current is still in the period of postmodernism. Analyzing the concept of postmodernist interior design is one of the academic ways of exploring the search for classic design principles and the constant questioning of history. Bibliography: ① Folkmar Burdens: Toward Postmodernism, Peking University Press, Beijing, 1991. / ② Wang Shouzhi: The History of World Modern Architecture, China Architecture Industry Press, Beijing, 1999. / ③ Yin Dingbang: An Introduction to Design, Hunan Science and Technology Publishing House, Changsha, 1999.