Application Of Ming Furniture Concept Creations In Modern Interior Design

This paper, with Ming-style furniture as the basic point of study, proposes the concept of "creative force" for Ming-style furniture combining the traditional theoretical thought of creative force, reflects the relationship between people and things as well as people and nature from the creation activities of Ming-style furniture, and inherits the essence of China’s traditional culture. The paper expresses the profound meaning of the "creative force" for Ming-style furniture from philosophy of unity of heaven and man as well as humanistic pragmatism, interprets the spirit of Ming furniture creations from a modern perspective and places the creation process of traditional furniture into human social production activities and explores the profound significance of Ming- style furniture and traditional philosophy’s influence on Ming-style furniture. The comparison of modern production behavior and values highlights development laws of human society and nature and relationship between man and furniture showed in the "creative force" for Ming-style furniture, which will become the value trend of creation activities in modern society.Nowadays, people are not only satisfied with the existing functional qualities on indoor environment, but increasingly want it brings spiritual satisfaction and art and culture influence, which provides an opportunity for Ming-style furniture’s integration in modern interior design. In the history of thousands of years of development of Ming-style furniture, there is a little difference in forms, structure, modeling and other art features between Ming-style furniture and modern space design environment. This requires us to break the previous inherent thinking forms while inheriting and carrying forward Chinese traditional thought and culture, carry out innovation of traditional furniture with innovative ideas and vision of sustainable development, explores and thinks about the materials, technological means and functions of furniture in combination with the existing scientific and technological means, feels the new spark brought by collision of tradition and modernity and provides new ideas for Ming-style furniture’s development in recent times.Staring from the furniture design in modern interior design, the paper carries out researches on Ming-style furniture design’s application in the modern interior space, highlights design content and cultural expression of Ming-style furniture, finds proper expressions in the ambience of modern interior space and gets hold of system design at macro level to better express the mood of modern indoor space, to play spiritual connotation of traditional culture, to make innovation in view of sustainable development, to provide better inheritance and development ideas for the Ming-style furniture and to add new vitality to overall image design of modern interior space.