Chinese Traditional Furniture's Inheritance And Variation In Modern Interior Design

Furniture plays a vital part in the social life, which is closely related with people's daily life. It is known to us all that furniture, as an inseparable company of our home, carries its importance in improving the indoor living environment, and its changes rely on those of people's lifestyle and family forms. From its development law, furniture has a similar history like human beings: after gestated during Old Stone Age, furniture gradually got its mature in the later New Stone Age; it continued its accumulation and development through Song and Yuan Periods; after all those, it reached its peak at approximately the mid and later parts of Ming Dynasty.Chinese traditional furniture of Ming style can be called the marvels to some extent. It is actually a spiritual creation based on Chinese traditional culture, whose exquisiteness, internality, elegance and simplicity have deeply impressed the design ideas for furniture in the modern world. All the design ideas, based on the deeper understanding of Chinese traditional furniture, are analyzed and summarized, and gradually form comparatively complete ones, which will promote the development of modern indoor furniture designing. In a word, the designing factors and natural artistic conception in Chinese traditional furniture melt culture, nature, art, aesthetics, ergonomics and other factors together, incarnating the philosophical thoughts like harmony between human being and nature.Nowadays, human society has come into a new and rapid stage where various ideas lead furniture designing to diverse directions while rights ideas do affect the fashion all the time. Generally speaking, modern artistic design ideas tend to base itself on traditional culture, and absorb its cultural value of the furniture. By digging them in different angles, we can theoretically and practically get a clear clue, which enables the inheritance and development of our Chinese traditional furniture culture in a correct way.This essay does a further research on inheritance and development of ancient furniture in modern indoor rooms, by using furniture of Ming and Qing Dynasties as the valuable physical materials, referring to existing works on ancient furniture art and combining a large number of research results from scholars. It also discusses the relationship between traditional furniture and modern interior and finally reveals novel characters of furniture designing in modern interior. If we people own a deeper understanding of traditional furniture, it will help us not only better know and appreciate its art in an artistic way, fully realize the importance based on tradition, but also find a right direction for modern furniture designing by absorbing the essence, combining the atmosphere of modern society, reviving Chinese traditional art in furniture and promoting the essence.