The Search On The Hommization Of Chair Design

The nature of design is for human beings, its main problem is how to solve the relationship between the people and object. By reforming the outside world "object" to improve people's living environment and Improve quality of people's life is the main content of design. The concept of "hommization design" is proposed In the background of manufacture production when the power of machine is strong enough to overthrow the dominant status of human. This concept is a rectify and restore of the idea that in a design concern about man and machine the focus should be on the machine, it claim to paying more attention to people's emotional and spiritual needs based on the satisfaction of people's physiological needs by machine. The concept of "hommization design" is belong to the domain of modern industrial design, but "humanized "of design is always been here as the design's nature, its performance will show different characteristics as the influence of time and region but its connotation is unchanged and determined by the internal humanistic needs. Through the analysis of the chair which is closely related to the human life, we can find out the three aspects of the design-humanized connotation as Physical, mental and spiritual.The chair has a long history, in ancient egyptian civilization, the typical chair had already developed well, following the thousands of years' human civilization it developed along with the development of human culture. Chair as a thing to sit on, it's the representation of "hommization" itself, compare to the other seat chair is more hommization not only because its sustain to the body but also a spiritual carrier as a symbol of power. In the design history, chair not only as a practical tool services in all aspects of people's lives but also had become a touchstone to test new ideas and new technology, the whole history of design can be seen form the development history of chair design, including the development of material, the innovation of technology, and the change of design idea. The more important thing is that the numerous chairs give performance in different human nature level when serving peoples. As the spiral development of design, it returned to the "serving people " path, the characteristics expression by the chair when it meets the needs of different human nature level provide rich nutrition for the "hommization design"...