基于符号学理论的新中式家具设计探索

New Chinese-style Furniture Design Exploration Based on Semiotics

明清家具是中国古代家具的典范,在世界家具史上有着重要位置,新中式家具的设计主要是借鉴了明清家具的某些特征,同时以现代的技术手段和审美需求为标准。本文运用现代符号学理论,分析确定了明清家具是完整的符号系统,并总结出明清家具的符号学语言形式:形态性符号、装饰性符号、结构性符号和材料性符号,从而应用横组合与纵聚合等符号学原理创作了几款新中式家具。应用符号学理论审视明清家具既是一种全新的认识,也为新中式家具的创新设计提供了方法上的参考,对新中式家具的设计有一定的借鉴意义。

The furniture of Ming and Qing dynasties is a model of Chinese ancient furniture, which has an important position in the history of world furniture. The design of new Chinese-style furniture primarily learned from some characteristics of the Ming-Qing furniture while using the modern technical means and aesthetic needs as the standards. Using modern semiotics theory, it was observed that the Ming-Qing furniture comprised a complete symbol system. The types of semiotics language of Ming-Qing furniture were summarized： morphological symbols, decorative symbols, structure property symbols and material property symbol. Based on the proposed theory, the author applied the syntagmatic and paradigmatic semiotics principle to create the new Chinese-style furniture. It is a brand new perspective to use semiotic theory to examine the Ming-Qing style furniture, which provided the reference of the method of innovation design on the new Chinese-style furniture.