The Design Concept Of Ming-Style Furniture And Its Enlightenment With Thinking For Modern Chinese-Style Furniture Design

The development of Chinese traditional furniture has a long history, and ever leads the world. But since the19th century, with the Western Civilization impacting, Chinese-style Furniture began to decline. Ming-style Furniture whose unique national-culture has been known to the world was a true rarity in the history of Chinese traditional furniture. Its design-concept must have its scientific and reasonable characteristics that could be worth to learn and use for reference.From the times and cultural background of the Ming-style Furniture produced, this paper analyzed its feature on the material, sculpt, structure and ornament, by summarizing the design ideas we know that unified function and aesthetics, bundling literati and traditional processes, and the design concept of scientific creations from the aesthetics, function, literati, material making thought, etc. After that, the article defined that what Modern Chinese-style Furniture is. By the analysis of the fault of Chinese-style Furniture and the rise of Modern Chinese-style Furniture with the developing situation, tendency and problem, we learn that developing Modern Chinese-style Furniture need a complete theoretical system. Then, the text sought common ground while accepting the existing differences, affirmed that the enlightenment of Ming-style Furniture for the design of Modern Chinese-style Furniture. Through the further analysis, the paper drew a conclusion that the enlightenment is sustainable development thought, vacant and calm aesthetic standards, the perfect and unified of form and function, scientific creation and universal design and ecological design thought, and so on. in the end, the text got through common pattern redesign and television cabinet design by CAD to argue the rationality of those.To conclude, if the design of Modern Chinese-style Furniture want to develop, we must inherit and promote traditional culture of the Chinese nation, join the culture of Chinese traditional furniture, take the essence of the design concept of Ming-style Furniture, according to the times, scientific and technological conditions and create a furniture style which could fit the functional and aesthetic demand of modern humans.