一“坐”一世纪

Once“Be Seated”,Forever Laste d

曾经有人问一位著名的家具设计师,如果想为家居带来不一样的感受,但是只可以改变其中一件家具,你会选择改变哪一种?那位设计师不假思索地回答:“我会选择椅子,因为椅子的设计变化最多。”设计师通过一张椅子的创作,同时也在演绎着椅子本身实用功能之外的审美和流行时尚。

Twentieth century is the initiative century when the modern industrial design burgeoned,bloomed and born the fruit.The design,innovation,research,and description of the chair are undoubtedly the most remarkable achievement of that age.People's exploration and efforts over it has surpassed those of other types of furniture resulting from the fact that the chair is closely tied up with people's work and life. People's demand for the chair is multi-faceted:we need to sit on the chair to work,study,eat and talk,etc.Although at the beginning of the birth of the chair more than 4000 years ago,it was just created by few people of superior appreciation as the decoration for the authority and the religion.However today, the chair is more than a piece of sculpture.Its special function as a practical article arouses great concern from the public. Nearly all the masters of design show their keen interests in the design of the chairs,creating many classical works themed on the chair.In the past century, the evolvement and development of the chair coincides with the architecture, the technology and the art,which also reflects the social change and the change of people's demand for its function.From the tech innovation,material change and the change shown in the making and the style,we can figure out the development of modern industrial technology.The transformation and development of the chair has already been a symbol or a showcase to reflect different facets in the modern history.The trend of the thoughts,the school of the art,the style,the tendency,the technology,the material,the life and the fashion have constitute the epitome of the development of modern culture, society and industry.The evolvement of the chair is the enriched history of the development process of modern furniture design in the twentieth century.