What are the characteristics of furniture culture?

Furniture is a rich information carrier and cultural form. As a material production activity, furniture culture is bound to have a large number of categories and different styles, and with the development of society, this wave of style changes and updates will be more rapid and frequent, so furniture culture will inevitably reflect the following characteristics more or less in the development process.

① Regional characteristics

Different geographical features, different natural resources and different climatic conditions will inevitably lead to differences in people's personalities and form different furniture characteristics. As far as the difference between the north and the south of China is concerned, the mountains and rivers in the north are vast, the people in the north are simple and rough, and the furniture correspondingly presents the characteristics of large scale, entity-oriented, solemn and steady. The mountains in the south are beautiful, the southerners are quiet and delicate, and the furniture is exquisite, soft, ingenious and changeable. There used to be a saying that the shape of furniture was "legs in the south, hats in the north", that is to say, the cabinets in the north pay attention to big hats and are relatively heavy, while the furniture in the south pursues the change of feet, showing beauty and generosity. In terms of furniture color, the north likes deep and dignified, while the south likes elegance and freshness.

② Characteristics of the times

Like the whole development process of human culture, the development of furniture also has its stages, that is, the furniture styles in different historical periods show different characteristics of furniture culture. Ancient times, Middle Ages, Renaissance, The Romantic Period, Modern Times and Postmodernism all showed their own different styles and personalities. ?

In agricultural society, furniture is handmade, so the style of furniture is mainly classical, or exquisite, or simple and simple, leaving obvious handmade traces. In the industrial society, the production mode of furniture is industrial batch production, the product style is modern, the shape is simple and straight, there is almost no special decoration, and the main pursuit is a kind of mechanical beauty and technical beauty.

In the contemporary information society, furniture has turned to focus on context and cultural semantics, so the furniture style shows a diversified development trend, not only to be modern, but also to reflect the contemporary lifestyle, technology, materials and economic characteristics. In the language of furniture art, it is isomorphic and compatible with regions, nationalities, traditions and history. From * * to individuality, from single to multiple, furniture shows a strong personal color, which is the characteristics of the current furniture era.