| Nowadays,prosperous economy boosts high apartment erected everywhere. The emergence of building materials, such as reinforced concrete, metal machines and glass, let our living space become simple, bright and structural. However, the excessive flow of this tendency will cause a boring and cold lifestyle. With the awakening of self-consciousness at the beginning of the new century, people are looking for a individual living space with the help of furnishing design in interior decoration. Chinese traditional culture is a big study for the individual and personality. Chinese traditional handicraft, a branch of Chinese traditional culture, is the symbol of the collective consciousness and spirit among the Chinese nation. As a member of the interior furnishings, ‘carpet’ has a special affinity due to its flexibility, which can immediately weaken the ice and cold feeling of the room, and provide a personality atmosphere. ‘Peking Carpet’ is the outshining of China traditional handicraft. It was a part of China traditional interior decoration promoted by our ancestors, which made a comfortable and warm living environment. One of the most important, Peking Carpet can convey emotions and thoughts between past and modern, people and ancestors, which is non-comparable. This thesis is on the Beijing style carpet as an example to discuss.This article will be started from people’s mental conditions. And then, with the introduction of interior furnishing design, carpet would be proved as an important member for the purpose to shape the personality and express humanistic implication. There are three steps of Peking Carpet, starting by visual, continue by perception and finally by psychological activity. Receive of visual information by graphic patterns, color and skin texture causes perceive of psychological activity. Then, human brain is impacted by visual perception and hence the sense of balance is built between single and multiple feeling.At the end of the paper, I reaffirm the collective consciousness and spirit when we express the individuality. And prove that, with a form of a room matching with other furnishing members, such as artwork, loose furniture and drapery, carpet is important in the modern interior furnishing design. |