What is new Chinese furniture?

The academic circles of new Chinese furniture call it modern Chinese furniture. As far as its style characteristics are concerned, modern Chinese furniture should be furniture with China cultural connotation and China cultural charm created under modern conditions. Specifically, it is to "absorb the essence of national traditional art, take China's excellent traditional furniture as the blueprint, skillfully combine the cultural characteristics of the Chinese nation with the trend of the times, and at the same time coordinate with the living environment, life and working style of modern China, and absorb traditional serious modeling and cultural symbols in modeling, so that it has both elegant and exquisite artistic effects of classical furniture and simple style of modern international furniture, and integrates the aesthetic taste of the East with the artistic taste of the West."

Modern Chinese furniture has two meanings: first, it must be modern, inherit and carry forward the traditional style and cultural connotation of China, meet the needs of modern lifestyle and meet the requirements of modern aesthetics. Classical furniture left over from history, or restored traditional furniture, or artistic decorative furniture transformed from ancient wood. Does not belong to the category of modern Chinese furniture; Secondly, the furniture must be Chinese-style, designed by exploring and innovating the traditional furniture style. The so-called "Chinese style" is not limited to the traditional modeling style of furniture. It can be an important element of traditional furniture modeling, an organic combination of several furniture modeling, and it can also seek modeling elements from other traditional modeling objects, such as China traditional architecture, ceramic utensils, etc., and even mix western traditional or modern modeling elements. But one thing is certain, its theme is China, and China is rich in culture.

However, it needs to be clear that, unlike other furniture styles in the history of furniture, modern Chinese furniture has not yet formed a fixed shape and style characteristics, and its significance has also developed and changed with the changes of society and aesthetic consciousness. First of all, the background of China's times determines that "modernity" is still a persistent, dynamic and changeable concept. Even in the field of design, it is quite different from the "modernity" and "postmodernism" experienced by the west, and it is difficult to determine its evaluation and measurement standards. Secondly, the extension and connotation of the concept of "Chinese style" and its extensiveness and richness will form different understandings from different time angles such as tradition, modernity and future. It should be said that modern Chinese furniture is an exploration and innovation to inherit the traditional furniture culture in China, so as to meet the current specific social needs in China. It describes a furniture style, but it is not a summary of a furniture style, but an advocacy and exploration of a furniture style.