Chinese Furniture

The composition of Chinese furniture is mainly reflected in the simple and smooth lines, the internal design of sophisticated traditional furniture or modern furniture combined with classical furniture, mostly in dark colors, the flavor of the book is strong. Ancient Chinese furniture experienced a period of rapid development in the Song and Ming Dynasties. In modern times, people's concepts, habits and the use of furniture have changed a lot, the development of furniture must also adapt to the changing needs. New Chinese furniture is the recent rise of furniture design styles, is inherited from the classical elements of contemporary Chinese furniture, which is aimed at the characteristics of contemporary life and contemporary aesthetic requirements, is a contemporary furniture with Chinese oriental charm.

Song furniture

Song aesthetics achievements and status in the evolution of Chinese culture, whether compared to the Han and Tang dynasties of the power of the world, or the Ming and Qing dynasties of the splendor of the Song culture can be called the golden age of China's academic history, the unprecedented achievements, more dominated the next thousand years of the development of national culture.

The Song Dynasty is an important period of development in the history of China's furniture, but also the Chinese people's way of living from the floor to sit down to sit on the important period. Ancestors thousands of years of living style, experienced the two Han's Buddhist influence, Wei Jin North and South Dynasties of the integration of nationalities, as well as the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties of the frequent emergence of high type of furniture, the old custom of sitting on the ground has been a fundamental impact. High-type sitting furniture along with the custom of sitting with feet hanging down, the influence gradually deepened and expanded. On the other hand, due to the economic development of the Song dynasty, urban prosperity, brought the officials and nobles, rich merchants competing to create homes, build gardens of the world. The prosperity of the furniture industry, naturally came into being. From the end of the Northern Song Dynasty to the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, the high type of furniture development, drop foot sitting has completely replaced the floor sitting. The great change in the way of living in Chinese history, to this point has been completely completed. Today we re-examine the source of the Song Dynasty aesthetics of life, in addition to the Song Dynasty should be further to understand the main body of the formation of ideas from the flamboyance of the empty and turn into a clear and quiet, contains the Taoist, Shih's Neo-Confucianism and inherited from the Chinese culture of Taoist lineage, has long been through the millennium of the Song Dynasty painting and calligraphy and the art of the content from the different artifacts conveyed in the content.

Ming furniture

The end of the sixteenth century to the beginning of the seventeenth century, the Ming Dynasty, at the time of the prosperity of the culture of the city, although social unrest in the north at that time, but far away from the smoke in the south, but in the construction of homes, gardens, palaces, and furniture as the main indoor daily necessities and furnishings, the demand for a great deal of increase in the design of Su furniture and furniture produced by the level of production of the Canton style at this time reached its peak, and also created the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty. At the same time, it also created the splendor of the Ming Dynasty furniture. In particular, the construction of private gardens in Suzhou, private gardens is a cultural and social place for the literati, and many owners of private gardens, themselves are literati artists, in this unique natural environment and cultural atmosphere, the literati aesthetic concepts involved in the design of the garden furniture, determining the design style of Ming furniture.

From the Ming furniture, one can feel a natural elegance and simplicity of the design concept, in the construction, it adopts mortise and tenon structure, according to different parts of the design of different mortise and tenon, without the use of nails and glue. In the selection of materials, like natural high-quality wood, because it is exquisite and delicate texture, color and lustre deep and elegant, to the furniture infused with cultural connotations, such as the color orange, bright, natural and beautiful wood grain Huanghuali furniture, by the Ming Dynasty literati Qing squint and respect, Huanghuali furniture given simple and pure, simple and bright artistic endowment and beautiful form, so that the furniture contains a simple literati atmosphere. And rosewood tone deep, color sex cold, because of the suitable fine carving decoration craft, so more can cater to some talk about field, advocate luxury, the pursuit of rich and noble people's favor, but it is far away from the aesthetic interest of the furniture with HuangHuaLi.

From the choice of wood can be seen on the two different cultural state, which also become a special furniture cultural phenomenon. In the decoration, the ancients will be the things of nature and the good will of mankind combined with rich imagination and beautiful symbolism will be people happy with the auspicious objects, auspicious patterns throughout the furniture design, China advocates modest and good manners, honest and dignified code of conduct, in the modeling, the Ming style furniture modeling thick Sinjian, smooth lines, moderate proportions, stable and generous. In a sense, with the Ming style chair rest, perhaps not the best way, but it is in the ritual, social, ethical, but even more than the function of rest, the Ming style chair for the user, seems to care more about a cultural comfort.

Modern Chinese furniture, although still using rosewood, dendritic wood, ironwood and other precious wood, in the carving, painting and other aspects of the traditional handmade crafts are still used, but with the traditional antique furniture has been very different. Modern Chinese furniture is not only the principle of ergonomics organically integrated into the traditional modeling, but also brings together some of the fashion trend of Chinese and foreign furniture elements, but also to take into account the actual needs of modern people's lives, so that the appearance of this Chinese furniture, although simple and ancient, while the modern furniture of the various functions have been equipped with a full range of people's lives can be convenient and comfortable needs. Modern Chinese furniture, has developed into a series of family, not only the traditional circle chair, case, embroidery pier, flower table is still available everywhere, and modern families use the TV stand, telephone table, sofa, bookcases, etc. can be found in the Chinese furniture.

With the rise of China's great power, as well as the Olympic Games, the World Expo, "Chinese elements" began to be used in large quantities, and swept the major international fashion stage. In the face of those who filled the eye of the complex and gorgeous Chinese "characteristics" and the repeated use of Chinese elements in various products, so that people gradually produce aesthetic fatigue. We can not help but ask, these are the inheritance of five thousand years of cultural accumulation of things?

As a leading enterprise of Chinese furniture, Haodian Kobo, which has always taken "to be an enterprise of Chinese furniture segregation and continuity" as its cultural philosophy, has brought us new works that are eye-catching. The previous design style of Haodian Workshop favored modern Chinese style with a little neo-classical feeling, while the "Chinatown" themed furniture launched this time focuses on a group of Oriental people living in the West, using their traditional perspectives to express the Western culture, Western fashion and Western simplicity. This is not only a continuation of the post-modernist style of the previously launched "Phoenix Legend" series, which integrates Chinese elements into the current life and home mode, but more importantly, it utilizes the essence of Chinese sentiment and culture to recreate Western fashion, injecting more and more pure Chinese souls into the design of modern furniture. /commentdetail.aspx?id=103088397&projectid=80200&c=39

Another brand of Haodian Workshop, China Concept Series Furniture, applies the excellent traditional essence of the Chinese nation to the furniture, and transforms and integrates it with the aesthetic standard of modern people, absorbing the traditional elements and combining them with modern aesthetics. It absorbs the traditional elements and combines them with modern aesthetics, which is simple and generous, and also has the beautiful temperament of ancient rhyme, which combines the ideas of Zen culture, Taoist culture, Confucian culture, tea culture, porcelain culture and so on, and gives the furniture a cultural value and taste of life. Haodian furniture in China modern Chinese furniture style on the road, broke out of a road of their own, will be in the future, and continue to create more, more original classic furniture, to meet the market.

Chinese concept furniture cohesion of oriental art and nature's classic elements; inheritance of the vast and profound traditional Chinese culture; sends the "Ode to elegance" of the oriental cultural qualities; respect for the broad and far-reaching Chinese classicism; draw on the whole world, the whole of mankind the essence of the culture and art of all nationalities; the integration of traditional and modern craftsmanship; give Chinese concept furniture more soulful deep cultural connotation! /commentdetail.aspx?id=98644510&projectid=80200&c=125

Phoenix Legend Golden Teak Furniture is made of top quality golden teak and excellent materials, and is based on the theme of the traditional Chinese bird, "phoenix". As the theme, the symbol of the phoenix is mysterious, auspicious and noble, the designer, based on the deep understanding of the traditional oriental life and culture, takes the "phoenix" as the main line of the god bird in Chinese traditional culture, repeatedly deliberates and streamlines the most representative elements such as phoenix tail pattern and phoenix feather pattern, and embellishes them in the products, highlighting the extraordinary artistic value and unique taste. value and unique taste, everywhere reflecting the owner's status of honor and unique taste.

Phoenix pattern: the tail of the phoenix is the most ornamental representative part of the phoenix, its unrestrained and stretching demeanor is unique, in the ornamental more than the first, so the pure handmade crafts carefully carved - phoenix tail pattern, the gold teak material for the real, through the phoenix of the atmosphere of the charm, carved, local embellishments, pattern Vivid and smooth, highlighting the product's extraordinary artistic value and unique cultural tastes.

Phoenix feather pattern: the phoenix colorful, golden feathers all over the body, its floating and stretching demeanor vivid and smooth, the designer as a carrier, and then to the natural and delicate hand-carved craft as a means of expression, uniform and meticulous, silk into the buckle, durable, interpretation of the distinctive phoenix totem culture.

Phoenix Legend furniture is crafted from the finest teak wood. Teak is a rare and noble wood, known as the "king of all trees", in Myanmar, Indonesia is regarded as a national treasure. Because of its beautiful grain, elegant and durable color, water resistance, fire resistance, corrosion resistance and not easy to change shape and cracking characteristics, used in the field of furniture, teak wood is especially suitable for the manufacture of high-grade furniture. In European countries, teak is used to do the most luxurious yachts, TIANIC (Titanic) deck is paved with teak; hundreds of years of history of cathedrals and ancient buildings are also teak flooring. In the West, especially in Europe, the use of teak furniture is a status symbol. In China, teak used to be mainly used in the decoration of hotels and villas, with the improvement of living standards, teak has now become the focus of home furnishing materials. Teak furniture caters to the pursuit of return to nature, creating a more comfortable, more cozy, more healthy home environment, and therefore doubly popular.

Phoenix Legend furniture style is located in the "after the present low aestheticism", the pure Oriental culture so that the Phoenix Legend series has become a unique independent brand of furniture. All the ideas and expressions are based on meeting the needs of the home unlimited layout and compatibility, emphasizing the spirit of free matching, eclectic mix and match design ideas, so that the home has a strong inclusiveness, always around the human nature of the tone of the livability of the role played by a variety of mysterious, and the effect of the respect and the wonderful coexistence.

From the point of view of interior product design, the so-called mix and match is in fact by the multi-species, multi-level, multi-cultural reconfiguration of a design concept, highly compatible products is the core of the design concept of the implementer.

Phoenix Legend series of furniture in the style of the establishment of neutral colors, to ensure that the furniture can be better integrated into the deep or light color environment; in the design of the design, including Chinese, classical, modern, minimalist, fashion and other characteristics of the elements, and thus in a variety of styles of home environments with the arrangement of the Phoenix Legend furniture series of furniture to perform with ease. Phoenix Legend's mix and match art of its openness to the creation of attitudes and techniques for people to bring a new feeling. /commentdetail.aspx?id=100811488&projectid=80200&c=58

"Ruyifang" series of furniture has the three major elements of Ruyi, auspicious and cloud pattern, with a calm, atmospheric, elegant, simple, auspicious and noble mood to

"Ruyi Fang" series furniture has three main elements of Ruyi, atmosphere, elegance, simplicity, auspiciousness, noble mood, to interpret the profound Chinese civilization, and to promote a rounded, virtuous, chunwen, Yi sex of the heirloom life, holding fragrant tea and immersed in it, in the space and time to appreciate and taste the charm of the traditional culture of the poetry, like magic.

"Ruyifang" series of products is positioned as all solid wood high-end furniture, facing the domestic and foreign furniture consumer market with a certain Chinese cultural heritage, with a certain furniture appreciation, the pursuit of higher taste of life in the high-end groups (such as social elites, professors of colleges and universities, private state-owned enterprises, Chinese culture enthusiasts, etc.). culture enthusiasts, etc.). The "Ruyifang" series of furniture products consists of a number of product elements in line with the consumer's values and aesthetic orientation, and with the structure of each product, the use of the function of each product constitutes the unique characteristics of each product, which can meet the different psychological or practical functional needs of consumers.

"Ruyifang" series of products to the organic combination of traditional and modern, selective extraction of traditional Chinese art design elements, Ruyi, auspicious, cloud pattern and other elements on behalf of the spirit of Chinese culture combined with the modern furniture trends for humanized design, so that the traditional Chinese cultural elements to adapt to the modern aesthetic needs and and consumers have a **** chirping effect, the traditional Chinese cultural elements of consumers, and consumers have a **** chirping effect. Consumers have ****ing effect, is the reasonable inheritance and development of traditional Chinese culture.

"Ruyifang" series of products currently has three elements: Ruyi, auspicious and cloud pattern.

Ruyi: the word "Ruyi" comes from the Indian Sanskrit word "Anaru", which evolved from the ancient wattles and scratching staffs, and it is one of the Buddha's tools imported from India, with the handle end in the shape of "heart", which is made of bamboo and bamboo. "shaped, with bamboo, bone, copper, jade production, the master of the sutra, often holding Ruyi a handle, remember the scriptures on, in case of forgetfulness. Also known as "hold Jun", "executive friend" or "talk handle", more S-shaped, similar to the shape of the Big Dipper seven stars, because the initial prototype combined with the head of the Ruyi was curved back in the shape of the people were given a Because the original prototype combined with the head of Ruyi was bent back, it was given the auspicious meaning of "turning back is Ruyi". "A gentleman is more virtuous than jade", the emergence of jade ruyi, the combination of jade's firm and unfailing virtues and the auspicious symbolism of ruyi, the achievement of the Chinese characteristics of the auspicious culture of ruyi artifacts.

Wei-Jin and North-South Dynasties period, Ruyi's shape to handle the head of the palm of the hand is bent as the main stream; Tang Dynasty development for the handle body flattened, the top of the bend evolved into the neck, the head of the handle for the three-petal scrolling cloud type modeling. Ming and Qing dynasties, Ruyi development to its heyday, because of its precious materials and exquisite craftsmanship and widely popular, to Ganoderma lucidum modeling Ruyi is more given the meaning of good luck to drive away evil spirits, and become the bearing of prayers for good luck and avoiding the security of the valuable gifts. The courtiers often offer ruyi to congratulate the royal birthday, the royal family also take ruyi reward princes and ministers, ruyi gradually became a symbol of power and wealth of the upper class. And in the late Ming Dynasty, Ruyi more because of its unique elegance, become the literati who respect the ancient style of the literati play object.

Xiangrui: Auspicious signs, also known as "Furei", refers to a variety of traditional Chinese culture, from the development of the ancient totem into a pattern of auspicious objects, to refer to the good meaning or auspicious symbols. Confucianism believes that it is a natural phenomenon that expresses the will of heaven and is beneficial to human beings. In ancient times, there are many kinds of auspiciousness, roughly divided into five kinds, that is, five levels. Anciently known as "Lin Feng five spirit, the king of the auspicious also". Is the highest level of auspicious signs. "Five spirits", respectively, "unicorn, phoenix, turtle, dragon, white tiger." The following are the Great Rui, the Upper Rui, the Middle Rui, and the Lower Rui.

For example, "dragon": since ancient times for the Chinese people worship totem, is honored as the god of China. Legend has it that the dragon is the longest of the Lin bugs, can rise clouds and rain, benefit all things, so that the wind and rain, good food and clothing, so one of the five spirits. The I Ching has a cloud: "Flying dragon in the sky, the great man-made also." Later used as a metaphor for the monarch. Therefore, all kinds of artifacts decorated with dragons were used exclusively by the emperors. "Phoenix": the king of all birds, used to symbolize the might of the Ming ruler, the feathers are very beautiful. Symbolizing a beautiful life, it usually borrows shape or meaning to express good intentions. "Kirin", a legendary beast of God or benevolent beast. The Historical Records of China. Sima Xiangru's biography of Shanglin Fu: "The beast is Kirin. The male is the Kirin, the female is the Lin, whose shape is like a swarming body with a cow's tail and a horn on top of the dome." It is a metaphor for an outstanding person. Bat: The word "bat" harmonizes with the word "fortune" and represents good fortune, and the five blessings are: fortune, wealth, life, happiness and fortune. /commentdetail.aspx?id=102533237&projectid=80200&c=48

Cloud Patterns: "Cloud Patterns" has always been one of the favorite decorative motifs of the Chinese nation, and in the conception of the ancients. In the ancient concept, "cloud" and "gas" is one, the meaning of this consistent. This natural gas was regarded by the ancestors as the quality and source of life that unifies the universe and life, and all things in heaven and earth. It unites the Chinese people's understanding of the essence of the creation of the universe, and contains the cultural concepts and aesthetic spirit of the Chinese people.

"Cloud pattern" in the application of the process of different evolutions, qi theory of philosophy of the universe for the popularity of qi, the endless course of cultural concepts, so that the natural cloud can be sublimated into the meaning of the humanities, in the hearts of the Chinese people, the cloud pattern is vitality, spirituality, spirituality, and auspiciousness and other carriers and symbols. From the earliest Shang and Zhou bronzes, the cloud and thunder pattern changes out of the scrolling cloud pattern, straight cloud pattern, thunder pattern, water pattern, etc., the 2008 Beijing Olympic torch design also used the auspicious cloud pattern.