Design Research On Furniture Symbols Under Social Development

Since the origins of mankind, the social activities remain unstopped, which to beseen from the commune system primitive times, the sacrificial system of slavery, feudalimperial hierarchy, improved modern Reform movement, until today’s socialist society.They are in their unique historical period followed by different characteristics of times.Social human civilization and progress from primitive to existence is an inherentrequirement of humanity, human nature is the sum of all social relations on the basis of thematerial produced formation.Furniture is the witness of human social development. It does not only show theproperty of materials, but it also reflects the process of human civilization. Furniture as animportant part of social contact activities, it can reflect the obvious epochal character andregional culture through different forms of furniture.This paper is based on social contact meaning and semiology, it focused on thecharacteristics between major element and symbolic features and the difference offurniture design in social contact context. It analyzed how different furniture symbolsadapted to different social contact contexts. It explained the problems of realistic furnituredesign by using semiotic knowledge. Meanwhile, it refined the different sorts of furnitureand identified the relationship between different usable range and different symbols. Then,the furniture design will be more accurate and typical. It introduced the culturalconnotation and the spiritual connotation of furniture that was hidden in social contactcontext, and it explored the form and the content of furniture’s semantic meaning. andsymbolization characteristics that was used in social contact context.This paper has the viewpoint from a special social contact environment. Combiningthe factors of social contact ways, environment and people. It studied and researchedmany foreign literatures, surveyed a lot of cases, and combined our domestic situation andsocial contact environment to conclude. Then, it listed many research achievements aboutsocial contact cases and furniture symbols from many professional points. Based onsemiology. It explained the characteristics of furniture design in the field of social contactby using linguistic knowledge and did analysis and conclusion through its own case.