Analysis of Eight Styles of Soft Decoration (1)
-American pastoral style and Mediterranean style
First, the American pastoral style
1, the reasons for the formation of American history, culture and free spirit
The United States is a colonial country and a new immigrant country. 1789 On April 30th, the federal government of the United States was established, and George Washington became the first president of the United States. Today, it has only a short history of more than 200 years. So why can the economy develop rapidly and even become the first power in the world today, and the people advocate the spirit of freedom?
First, geographical advantages. The United States is vast, flat and rich in resources. The east and the west span two open oceans respectively, which is really unique in the scattered living and economic development of Americans!
Second, I have never experienced a feudal society. Although the history of the United States is only 200 years, the United States has built a modern capitalist country after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and there was no feudal residue before. Although the history of the United States is short, the current regime of the United States was established at the end of 18, while New China was established in 1949. Compared with many countries, the establishment of modern political power is much later than that of the United States, which can be said to have developed earlier.
Third, institutional advantages. It is said that the economic base determines the superstructure, but the superstructure in the United States affects its economy. America was founded by European colonists. Since Columbus discovered America, they have brought the world's advanced science and technology culture. The spirit of enlightenment influenced America. The lack of feudal history in this new land can be better developed and the people's consciousness is high. The establishment of democratic systems such as separation of powers and presidential elections can fully reflect this point.
Fourth, the timing of development is correct. It is the advantage that the United States developed later than the European powers. By virtue of the geographical advantage of being far away from Europe where great powers gather, it has avoided the center of contradictions and gained an environment for development. In addition, it made full use of the business opportunities brought by the two world wars to speculate, so the United States dominated the world after the two world wars!
Fifth, the US government has made great efforts to attract talents and experts from all over the world to build a strong country. Giving immigrants fair and just development opportunities and helping immigrants realize the American dream is the best embodiment of the development of so many persecuted Jews in the United States!
So, first of all, Americans are people who are multi-ethnic and yearn for freedom to migrate. The diversity of population brings the diversity of ideas and is quite tolerant of people and things. Secondly, Americans value individuality, and personal progress is the main sign to measure whether self-worth is realized. In the United States, I feel that Americans are more eager for a free and unrestrained life than China. Every day is not very busy, very leisurely and quiet, which can better show your playful nature. This is their dream life and their values.
Coupled with the relief after all the hard work, people have an infinite yearning for nature. Return and persistence, simplicity and sincerity, it is precisely because of this understanding of life that the American country style gives them the possibility of enjoying another life.
2. The characteristics of American rural decoration style.
American country style abandons triviality and luxury, integrates the excellent elements of different styles, takes comfort function as the guide, and emphasizes "returning to nature" to make this style more relaxed and comfortable. American country style highlights the comfort and freedom of life. Whether it's furniture with heavy feeling or accessories with vicissitudes, it's telling people this. Especially in the choice of wall color, naturalness, nostalgia and earth tone are typical features of American country style.
The colors of American country style are mainly natural tones, and green and earth brown are the most common; Wallpapers are mostly pure pulp texture; Furniture is as colorful as old paint, with heavy style; There are many niches in the design.
3. American pastoral style, the treatment of each space.
Living room: As a hospitality area, the living room is generally required to be simple and bright, and the decoration is brighter than other spaces, usually decorated with a lot of stone and wood veneers; Americans like things with a sense of history, which is not only reflected in their love for antique artworks in soft clothes, but also in their preference for all kinds of antique wall tiles and stones in decoration and their pursuit for all kinds of antique handicrafts. Generally speaking, the living room with American pastoral style is spacious and full of historical flavor.
Kitchen: In the eyes of Americans, the kitchen is generally open (due to their eating and cooking habits), and at the same time, it is necessary to have a convenient dining table in a corner of the kitchen, as well as powerful and simple and durable kitchen utensils and equipment, such as the slag crusher and oven under the sink. There needs to be a spacious place to accommodate a two-door refrigerator and enough operating tables. There are also many exquisite decorations, such as antique wall tiles, cabinet doors, solid wood doors or white molded doors to imitate wood grain color. In addition, kitchen windows also like curtains.
Bedroom: The bedroom layout in America is warm. As the owner's private space, the focus is mainly on functionality and practical comfort. Bedrooms are generally decorated with warm and soft fabrics without ceiling lamps. At the same time, it is very uniform in soft decoration and color.
Study: American study is simple and practical, but it is rich in soft clothes. All kinds of furnishings symbolizing the owner's past life experience are readily available, such as turned-up old books, yellowed nautical charts, pastoral oil paintings, a quill pen ... even decorations, these things are enough to add points to the American style of the study. Family room: As the center of family members' rest and communication, family room is a very private space, which is usually located next to the restaurant and has a TV set. At the same time, sofas and chairs are light and lively, indoor greening is also rich, and there are more decorative paintings.
4. The specific application of American country style accessories.
(1), American furniture
Due to the uniqueness of American history, American furniture has extremely unique characteristics, which can be summarized as follows:
An American piece of furniture expresses Americans' nostalgia for history and popularizes European royal furniture.
B, American furniture expresses American leisure and comfortable style, and turns home into a place to release stress and relieve fatigue.
C. American furniture has a strong personality, which expresses the American spirit of pursuing freedom and advocating innovation.
Furniture characteristics
Sofa, coffee table
1, pure solid wood (usually white oak) is selected as the skeleton, painted with white paint and decorated with flower cushions. It is comfortable and aesthetically pleasing to sit on, and the cost is relatively high. It is estimated that a single person is about 3000-5000 yuan. This sofa can be matched with a coffee table;
2. In addition, there is the commonly used all-fabric sofa, which has no corners and is mainly composed of two or three people. The pattern is mainly flowers and plants, with elegant colors and a light wooden coffee table;
3. It is especially important to note that if the interior decoration is gaudy, some people will be equipped with pure wooden plaid chairs and painted with white paint, which can better reflect the nature and harmony of the countryside.
Dining table, chair
Most of them are white, and there are many wooden ones. There are chairs with cushions and chairs without cushions. The paint on the wooden surface will reflect wood grain or pure white enamel, but there will be no complicated patterns. The fabric pattern of the cushion is also determined according to the overall style. Of course, flowers and plants are the main choice, reflecting the natural feeling of the countryside. When tables and chairs are matched, they are not completely standardized. Treating life with a relaxed attitude can better reflect this style.
Bed, bedside table
There are not many beds that can reflect the country style, mostly white, pink,
(2), the pastoral style of plant decoration method
The commonly used decorative plants are evergreen, Hosta, African Jasmine, Yao Danhua, Chiba, Carpet Begonia, Dragon Blood Tree, Green Basket, Fortune Tree, Hulk, Sunflower, Nantianzhu and other American pastoral styles, which usually require higher plant selection. Generally, the number of plants in a house with a building area of 300 square meters is about 65,438. According to the room structure and decoration style, each room is decorated with green plants, such as floor, coffee table, decorative cabinet, bedside and dressing table. Form a patchwork pattern and level, which can fully reflect the perfect and harmonious communication between man and nature.
(3) Fabric
Fabric is a very important application element in pastoral style, natural cotton and linen are the mainstream, and the natural feeling of fabric can be well coordinated with pastoral style; All kinds of complicated flowers and plants, beautiful exotic customs and vivid patterns of birds, insects and fish are very popular and comfortable.
(4) Rocking chairs, small floral cloth, wild flower potted plants, wheat grass, fruits, disks, wrought iron products, etc. Are common things in rural style space.
Second, Mediterranean style accessories
1, forming history
Mediterranean style originally refers to the houses on the northern shore of the Mediterranean in Europe, especially in the coastal areas of Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Greece. It is very simple, with red tiles and white walls, dry walls that can block the summer heat and direct sunlight, and countless cloisters, halls and aisles. On the one hand, the length of the sea view appreciation point is increased, on the other hand, the convection is increased by using the principle of air duct, resulting in the so-called passive cooling effect like through flow. Cast iron handles and window bars, heavy wooden doors and windows, simple square moisture-absorbing ceramic floor tiles, all have patios with four waters returning to the hall. Most of them have a small Arab-style swimming pool, which is just dripping and decorated with colored tiles. The architectural design is asymmetrical, irregular, uneven and interesting, which is a very folk practice. Houses often face the sea, and it is very enjoyable to sit on the balcony and watch the sunset.
2. Style characteristics
(1) Design elements: white stucco walls, continuous arcades and arches, pottery bricks, sea blue roof tiles, doors and windows.
⑵ Decorative elements: ① In the choice of indoor curtain cloth, tablecloth, sofa cover and lampshade, mainly low-tone and cotton cloth, mainly plaid pattern, stripe or fine flower, giving people a simple and relaxed feeling.
(2) Mosaic Mosaic and collage are gorgeous decorations in Mediterranean style. Mainly use pebbles, tiles, shellfish, glass sheets, glass beads and other materials, and then make creative combinations after cutting.
(3) More floor tiles are laid on the ground, which will have more local color. In the kitchen, if you can spread tiles on the floor, use less wood, take white as the main body or more white, the Mediterranean style will have the keynote.
④ Unique wrought iron furniture is also a unique aesthetic product of Mediterranean style. At the same time, Mediterranean style homes should also pay attention to greening. Climbing vines are common household plants, and you can often see small and lovely green potted plants.
(3) Color matching Mediterranean style also has three typical color matching according to the region. 1. Blue and white: This is a typical Mediterranean color matching. The coasts of Spain and Morocco extend to Greece on the east coast of the Mediterranean. The white villages in Greece are connected with beaches, blue seas and blue sky. Even doorframes, windows and chairs are all blue and white, and shells, fine sand, pebbles, collage mosaics and metal utensils mixed with gold, silver and iron have brought blue and white to the extreme.
(2) Yellow, blue, purple and green: sunflowers in southern Italy and lavender fields in southern France. The golden, blue and purple flowers form a unique natural beauty against the green leaves.
(3) Khaki, reddish brown: This is the unique natural landscape color of deserts, rocks, mud and sand in North Africa, supplemented by scarlet, indigo and brass colors of native plants in North Africa, which brings a feeling as vast as the earth.
3. Specific applications in space
Speaking of Mediterranean customs, the first reaction in many people's minds should be a dreamy picture of sunshine, beach, blue sea, clouds, breeze and sunset. In the eyes of designers, the purpose of Mediterranean style decoration is to create a relaxed and carefree lifestyle in the tense pace of life. Mastering the following points can create a Mediterranean-style living room.
dining table
The hospitality of the people in the Mediterranean region is vividly displayed in the Mediterranean-style restaurant space. A rectangular dining table for 8- 12 people at the same time is essential. They like to sit around a long table and have a warm conversation while eating; In order to express that everyone is a family, it is often a table as long as someone is there. Therefore, the dining table will inevitably become the absolute center and focus of Mediterranean-style restaurants.
Wrought iron object
A wrought iron chandelier complements the dining table. It can also be a wrought iron billiards lamp or 2-3 independent wrought iron chandeliers, depending on the length of the dining table. The wall color of the restaurant is ideal for the golden sunset, and it has an emotional appeal of an ancient Mediterranean country farmhouse; Paired with a pair of oil paintings with the theme of grapes/wine or fruit, or tapestries is the icing on the cake. Mediterranean style walls are rarely blank, and many beautiful ornaments created are used to dress up and decorate the walls. Forged iron furniture and ornaments are one of the indispensable elements to create a Mediterranean home style. As long as it is used properly, it can create elegant or lively and interesting styles.
colour
Mediterranean style decoration, just like the romantic Mediterranean area, is a place to release freedom, romance and pure beauty, from which Mediterranean style draws color. Golden beaches, blue sky and sea, the rhythm of sunshine and milky shells have all become the first choice for Mediterranean style decoration. They are natural and pure, without any decoration, showing the pure beauty of the Mediterranean to the fullest, which has become the most important feature of the Mediterranean style. The "blue" and "white" colors, which originated from Greek and Aegean coastal villages, are the most vivid impressions of Mediterranean-style architecture. In fact, in addition to these two options, South France and North Africa, which belong to the Mediterranean coast, can also create different Mediterranean styles. The buildings in Nanfa are mainly red, yellow, blue and green. Home buildings in North Africa mostly use terracotta, Songkawa and earth dyeing, and pay attention to warm colors such as golden yellow and ochre.
Elements of nature and freehand brushwork
Make good use of white walls, stone floors, arched doors and windows, wooden houses and solid wood furniture, and you can easily create a dream Mediterranean decoration style. Arched architectural elements are also the characteristics of Mediterranean style. In the decoration of Zhonghai style, circular arches and cloisters are usually connected together or vertically, which gives people an extended perspective when walking and watching, which is also one of the interests of Mediterranean home.
Home accessories made of natural materials
One of the most obvious features of Mediterranean style is that furniture is treated with old paint. This treatment not only reveals the classical and meaningful texture of the furniture, but also shows the natural traces of the furniture being blown by the sea breeze under the blue sea and clear sky in the Mediterranean. Tables, chairs or bedsteads made of oak, pine and rattan, and outdoor floors decorated with pebbles or slates will add a lot of Mediterranean flavor. In addition, household articles made of cotton and linen, or unique decorations taken from nature, are also good helpers to enrich the expression of home space.
Fresh green planting
Small and lovely green potted plants are widely planted in Mediterranean families, and vases are painted or painted with the blue tone of popular vegetables; Beautiful green plants made of natural materials, whether indoors or outdoors, cleverly matched with dried flowers or flowers, can create their own green and colorful world.
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