Application Of Chinese Artistic Philosophy In Modern Furniture Design

Furniture design is a very important branch in Industrial Design. China owns old history and its typical style—Ming Style Furniture was a gem in history for its concision and elegance form. While recently, our furniture factories can' t adapt to market competition. Reasons come from sightlessly adoration to the west as well as maladjustment to industrial production. Now we can copy all styles of the world while lack of original designs of our nation.On the base of study and design practice about Chinese Style Furniture, this article analyzes the particular Chinese Art Philosophy, its expression on Ming Style Furniture and the space composing way of Ming Style Furniture. Then combining with modern life need, tries to settle the base of new Chinese furniture form.Firstly, this article concludes distillate of Chinese Art Philosophy used for design through literature search and sums up it to three points: human accreting with nature, regarding both form and function highly and pursuing peaceful void space. At the same time, this paper analyzes how to express the old philosophy through expression fashion.Then according to the characters of Ming Style Furniture, this paper studies flexible and changefully space form. Classes furniture by function, Compares them broadways then analyzes its form elements, form fashion and space identity. By analyzing Ming Style Drawing Table and Chair with Backrest in detail, study space scale, distribution and division relation. Summarize effective technique to form special abundance.At last, combining with modern new life style, new materials and new technologies, series design works will be finished.This design based on old Chinese philosophy, modern life and production style will satisfy most people, to both body and spirit as well as meet industrial batch production. This kind of design represents the trend of furniture style in China.