Research Of Application Of Sensual Minimalism On Tea Set Design

This essay summarizes a new concept of “sensual minimalism” that rose in industrialdesign, architectural and interior design from recent15years in this twenty-first Century, itanalyses the representative figures, the representative works and the design concept: thesensual minimalism is curvilinear, multi-coloured, technological, intellectualized,modularized, the heart is “perceptual then simplified”. The paper compares the differencesbetween sensual minimalism and minimalism, refutes the view of "minimalism is rational",leads to the hidden sensual side of minimalism, At last the essay introduces the decline ofChinese ceramic industry, compares it with the prosperous of the western tea and teaculture, applies sensual minimalism to tea set design, from theory to practice, in order tocreat a new sensual minimalism tea set.The essay collects the fine articles about minimalism and abstract expressionism fromthe Artforum Journal, works of Karim Rashid, an America industrial designer, domesticpremium papers related with the content of this essay and some exquisite works ofindustrial and graphic design, analyses those papers and works, forms a profoundunderstanding of sensual minimalism and the idea the new tea set.Through the internet andfield trips, it prepares a large number of data for understanding the status of tea set andexpectations for tea set. It summarizes those data, those theories from literature, the prosand cons of the exist, formulates its own ideas and applies to its own design. The mainresearch results of this paper are: First, to reject the inertial concept of minimalism. Second,to summarize the new sensual minimalism. Third, to put theories into practice.