Enlightenment of Nordic Furniture Design Innovation

Today, China has become the largest producer and exporter of furniture in the world, and furniture design will also face greater opportunities and challenges. As the accumulation of human culture, furniture fully embodies the development course of social material civilization and spiritual civilization. With the increasing political and economic status of China in the world, China people are reshaping their own design culture, and domestic furniture designers are working hard for this goal, and some gratifying achievements have been made, but at the same time, many problems have emerged. The innovative way of Nordic furniture design fully recognized by the world may enlighten the development of modern furniture design in China.

Nordic style is famous for its simplicity in the world, and has influenced later styles such as minimalism and postmodernism. In the surging wave of "industrial design" in the 20th century, the simplicity of Nordic style was pushed to the extreme. Reflected in the family decoration, that is, the top, wall and floor of the room are not decorated with patterns and patterns at all, but only with lines and color blocks to distinguish embellishment. This style is embodied in furniture, which leads to the fact that Nordic furniture does not need carving and ornamentation at all.

Nordic furniture is sought after and valued all over the world at present, mainly because the application of "people-oriented" design concept meets the requirements of modern lifestyle for furniture diversification. Our modern furniture designers in China should try their best to tap their successful experience, sensitively grasp the pulse of "furniture humanization", pursue the modeling form suitable for human body structure, and study and discuss the personality characteristics of products and their suitability with human body shape. Loyal to the users we designed, we designed furniture products with vitality to meet people's needs in different degrees, which will help the furniture industry in China to develop steadily in the future.

Characteristics of nordic furniture design;

Although the four Nordic countries are different in politics, culture, language and tradition, the similar industrialization process and the same attitude towards tradition and modernity have enabled them to maintain the unity of furniture design characteristics and embark on a unique design road.

the milk of human kindness

With the rise of modern furniture in Europe, although the function is reasonable and the price is affordable to most people, simple geometric shapes are adopted in modeling, forming a dull, rigid, simple, rough and indifferent feeling. Can this kind of furniture be accepted by people? When Nordic furniture first met the world at the Paris Expo in 1900, it caused a sensation in the design field with its modern and humanized exhibits, which made the critics full of praise and consumers very fond of it. Why does Nordic furniture have such a unique human touch? We consider nothing more than the following five factors:

Traditional style

The modernization of Nordic furniture has injected their traditional national characteristics and traditional styles, instead of radically opposing modernity and tradition. Therefore, it is easy for people in our own country and even people in other countries to feel cordial and accepted, and colorful Nordic modern furniture with national traditional characteristics will inevitably appear.

natural material

Nordic people like natural materials. In addition to wood, natural materials such as leather, rattan and cotton fabric have also been given new life. Since 1950s, Nordic countries have also made classic furniture with artificial materials such as chrome plating, steel pipes, ABS and fiberglass. However, generally speaking, the use of natural materials is one of the reasons why Nordic furniture has a unique human touch.

Simple modeling

Nordic design is designed according to the original tradition and modernized. Danish designer Kay? Bao once said, "Let the lines have a smile", which tells the true meaning of the human touch of Nordic furniture. The furniture modeling of the four Nordic countries conforms to the mainstream style of modern design-minimalism. Minimalist new product research and development is trivial, advocating simplicity, emphasizing essence and attaching importance to extensive. & ltp & gt

In a word, Nordic furniture takes a steady, thoughtful and analytical attitude towards design reform. These new frame designs are both modern and humanized.

originality

Nordic countries advocate originality, more open minds and designers, and their creed is "Don't repeat your own works, let alone copy others' works", so that new designs and new ideas emerge one after another. These originality are often not limited to the modeling itself, but more are the new modeling brought by the innovation of material application and structural mode. In this regard, some innovative projects in northern Europe have contributed to the world furniture.

ecology

The four Nordic countries attach great importance to the protection of ecological environment, which is more prominent in Europe. 1994 promulgated the first furniture ecological standard-wooden furniture and furniture with ecological signs. Their furniture products are also ecological. For many furniture designers, eco-environmental protection has become a major trend of modern furniture design, and it is a lasting trend. Ecological design has several elements: materials, energy, durability and traditional handicrafts.

scientificity

At the beginning of the 20th century, a group of architects in Northern Europe began to design home furniture with their own national traditions according to the requirements of residents. Since this period, the design and production of furniture have gradually embarked on a scientific track.

The four Nordic countries attach great importance to furniture research. They have their own research machinery, and the design institutions of designers and architects also do research work, from function, structure, modeling, scale, materials to details, to ensure the design quality. The research results are also helpful for manufacturers to improve their production technology. These achievements are excellent teaching materials for design schools and furniture design training courses. With the introduction of products, Swedish furniture provides consumers with a "guide to use". Besides Sweden, three other countries have similar research units and jobs. Parallel to the research unit, there is also a furniture testing center, which specializes in testing the strength and durability of furniture materials, handicrafts, structure, structure and surface treatment.

In the scientific aspect of furniture, ergonomics research is an important means to improve the quality of furniture. The function of furniture, especially seats, is mainly comfort. Studying the seat through ergonomics will make the seat more comfortable and meet the standards of human health. Furniture designers in the four Nordic countries attach importance to the study of ergonomics and apply it to their own furniture design.

Famous Nordic designers emerge in endlessly, such as:

Nanna, a famous contemporary Danish female designer? Dizel (Nanna Dizel 1923-) is versatile and full of inspiration. In her design career of more than half a century, she has created many unique products, including furniture, interior decoration, jewelry, textiles and so on. Nanna settled in Britain and is still active in the world design stage.

Nanna studied furniture design at the Copenhagen School of Arts and Crafts. 1944, Nanna, who was only 19 years old, and her future husband Joan Gen? Dietzel (Srgen Ditzel1913-L961) met, and they shared the same interests. Together, they designed a set of living room furniture and participated in the annual exhibition of Copenhagen Furniture Association, which received great response and won favorable comments. Two years later, the design partners got married and set up their own design company. They worked together until her husband 196 1 died. Nanna has been engaged in the research of modular furniture system. In 1950s, they collaborated to create many furniture and interior designs, including geometric modular furniture made of polyester foam, multi-layer plywood children's furniture, rattan furniture series cooperated with famous furniture designer wigner, etc. These works are very successful, paying great attention to the attempt of new materials and technologies, and innovating furniture design on the basis of Danish traditional handicrafts. At the same time, Nanna also has many masterpieces in the design of jewelry and textiles. 1954, they published the first design book.

1956, their chair design (Danish chair) won the Lunling Award. Later, she served as the first female judge of the Nordic Design Award. 1970, Nanna came to London to set up a design firm to design products for famous furniture companies all over the world. 198 1 year, she became the president of London Design and Industry Association and became a famous Danish female designer with international influence.

As a female designer, Nanna combines the temperament of a master with women's emotions, and attaches great importance to the formal beauty and emotional factors of products. In furniture design, she has a special interest in geometric shapes such as arcs and rings with rhythmic beauty. She has been addicted to butterflies, a beautiful insect with natural beauty, for many years, and applied the inspiration from them to her own furniture design, creating a series of butterfly chairs full of rhythm and rhythm [see figure 1-.