The Research On The Thinking And Methods About Designing Chairs

The chair is an essential furniture that serves for the people's sitting gesture. According to its utility nature, the chair includes lots of conformation. Furthermore, as the differences of the material and structure, the chair can takes on quite different modes. Seeing the developing of chairs that both from the Eastern and the Western that of the modern times or the old times, we know that chairs are not only entity for supporting people's bodies but also the aesthetic target of human beings. From it we can also see the mankind's culture. The chair has become people's eternal designing subject. Designing the chair concerns lots of factors, such as the function, the conformation, the material, the structure, the technology, the aesthetics, etc. And it has a profound theoretical ground and of extensive practical value, it can also embody a country's furniture designing level. Although the overall designing lever of our country's furniture is not quite high and there are more imitations and less innovations, people of this trade that committed in changing our country from a furniture-making power to a furniture-designing power. So this subject researches the design of the chair, so to further the theoretical study of our country's chair design and help for chair's developing of the furniture enterprises.From the most early existing 'Golden Armchair' to today's all kinds of chairs, the chair has developed for a quite long time. The importance of chairs has become the utility and the convenience instead of the former symbol and decoration. Now, though the distinction of different style has become veiled, we can also make it into four, that is the POP and Post-modern one, the simple one, the organist modern one and the High-technique one.Analyze the chair's forming parts, that is the moulding, the material, the structure and the function.Chair design belongs to the industry design, and its last goal is serving to people' life, and help people get a more comfortable, more healthy, and more cultural life style. So emboding and creating a new life style should be the source of chair design's thinking and method. Chair design should use the ergonomics. It is filling people's physical requirement firstly and then the psychal requirement. Also chair design should embody the country's design culture, and get a design motive from it. The...