西方古典家具的渊源和研究它的理由

The Source of Ancient Western Furniture and the Reason to Study It

西方古典家具的发展经历了从古埃及、古希腊、古罗马到拜占庭、哥特式,然后到中世纪至文艺复兴时期,其中受到伊斯兰的重大影响,接着是巴罗克、洛可可及以后的新古典主义风格,西方古典家具似乎走到了它的终点。但是探究西方古典家具终结后的前路,我们不能不看到,正是深厚的文明积淀,使现代西方家具的发展道路显得较为平坦和前程远大。这也许正是我们研究西方古典家具的理由。

Western classical furniture has experienced from ancient Egypt, ancient Greece, ancient Rome to Byzantine, Gothic, and then to the Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Among them, it has been affected by the significant influence of Islam, then followed by Baroque, Rococo and Neoclassical later. Western classical furniture seems to have reached its end. But explore the way before the end of the western classical furniture. We have to see, it is a deep-seated accumulation of civilization which makes the way of the development of western furniture become smooth and have a fine future. Perhaps it is the reason why we study western classical furniture.