The Research On The Aesthetics Of The Ming-style Furniture Design

It is said that Ming-style furniture is a model for future generations as furniture, because of its high artistic beauty and unique spirit. This aesthetic through time and space, with a profound meaning, behind which is the nation's cultural values, philosophy and aesthetics. Then, the research of Ming-style furniture design aesthetics should explore the root of traditional Chinese aesthetics at first. In the Ming Dynasty, literaters' aesthetic taste had a wide range of penetration in the daily life and artifacts, so the researching of the Ming literaters' effects on the unique form of literary temperament of Ming-style furniture is also an human exploration in the aesthetic design of Ming-style furniture. Then, this article started from the aesthetic merits of the extensive and profound Chinese traditional aesthetics of the most representative and influential several propositions, such as Heaven, Roads not far from people, content and form, Imitation of nature, reservation, Virtual and Real, Rigid, flexible, straight and curved, through the analysis of Ming-style furniture structure, shape, material, decorative concrete elements revealed the deep philosophy aesthetic concepts behind the aesthetic characteristics with the simple, harmonious nature, reserved style, ethereal nothingness. Finally, the thesis introduced the effect of modern furniture design on the experience and innovation of Ming-style furniture which based on the concrete examples and works, investigated the common point of various design schools and traditional Chinese aesthetic ideas, and presented aesthetics in the Ming-style furniture design played an important role in the modern design conception.