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A paper on furniture

China's modern compact space, changes in family and population structure and the pursuit of unique life concept through design require designers to have more rigorous design thinking. In the past, some designs may have brought people great convenience and economic benefits, but today, they have caused serious harm. For example, the foam snack box has brought great convenience to people's lives, but it has caused serious white pollution today, and many people still use it. There are misunderstandings in design, mainly because the designer's design thinking is not rigorous enough and the consumer's awareness of environmental protection is not strong enough. With the accelerated pace of modern life, people are troubled by various problems and their awareness of environmental protection has also improved. People attach importance to culture, environment, ecology and individuality. Therefore, people think calmly about the significance of a product's existence, and judge the significance of a product's existence, which should be biological and semantic significance, not industrial significance. The designer's responsibility is to make people and the environment develop harmoniously and design a better and more reasonable life for people. Therefore, while considering the industrial significance, product design and development should be more from the perspective of consumers and more from the long-term interests of enterprises, so as to strive for greater market space for products. This is the purpose of my market research before the design of living room furniture.

I. Overview of Furniture Market in 2004

People are more and more unaccustomed to making their homes full of furniture, and more and more unaccustomed to letting the complicated decoration of furniture disturb their inner peace. Therefore, the living room furniture is becoming more and more simple and light, which is becoming a popular reason.

1, furniture market price dynamics

This year, the price trend of the living room furniture market still shows different levels. Brand-name products, because of their high gold content and rich cultural and artistic tastes, will maintain their high quality and excellent price, and the value for money (for example, this set of leisure chairs on the left has beautiful curves, conforms to ergonomics and fine craftsmanship, and can be sold in the market to 1500 yuan). For consumers, it is not only a function, but also a culture, which also reflects this. The price of middle and low-grade living room furniture decreased steadily; Although the phenomenon of some operators asking exorbitant prices or asking for money on the spot has obviously decreased, it still happens from time to time, and this phenomenon will disappear with the gradual standardization of the market. At first, the market reaction of imported living room furniture was not strong, and the price fluctuation was very small. However, with the gradual reduction of tariffs, the price of imported living room furniture has moved. For example, the prices of some international brands have been reduced by 20% ~ 30%. Based on the high design fee and freight of imported furniture, its price is still beyond the reach of ordinary consumers. However, with the further reduction of tariffs, the price of imported furniture will decrease. In some cases, the price of a commodity is determined by consumers' evaluation of it, which has little to do with its cost. This price is called the demand price of consumers. When the demander is in urgent need of something, the item is highly effective to the demander, so he is willing to pay a higher price for it; On the contrary, the price that demanders are willing to pay is low. Therefore, in the face of foreign high-level design, we can only open our market by improving our design taste.

2. New consumption of furniture

The groups patronizing the furniture market and their expectations of furniture performance have changed greatly. According to a survey conducted by a university on the age, education level, income and housing area of consumers who frequented the furniture market, the data show that:

1. The younger generation is the mainstream of furniture consumption. Among the people who frequented the furniture market, consumers aged 20-30 accounted for 42%, those aged 3 1-40 accounted for 22%, those aged 4 1-50 accounted for 16% and those aged 50-60 accounted for 10%.

2. The knowledge structure and life attitude of consumer groups are changing. Among the people who patronize the furniture market, 78% have college education or above. This group not only meets the functional needs of furniture, but also seeks a new way of life to match their cultural level and personal taste. (For example, the combination cabinet on the right not only meets the functional requirements, but also has the flexibility of purchase and space, and can also reflect a random personality. However, few people with general education go to the furniture market.

3. Income directly reflects consumers' desire and ability to buy furniture. For those who visit the furniture market, 74% have a monthly income of over 3,000 yuan, and 26% have a monthly income of1000-3,000 yuan.

4. Among the people who frequented the furniture market, 38% of the housing area was 100 m2, 30% was 100 m2, 30% was 60-80 m2, and 20% was 80- 100 m2. The improvement of people's housing conditions provides development space for furniture matching.

3. Internationalization of furniture design

Furniture design has always been a hot issue in the industry. Many enterprises adopt various forms of design cooperation to carry out product innovation, some introduce design "foreign aid", some are linked with the design specialty of colleges and universities, and the design content of products has been improved. The appearance of "Federal Chair" has become a masterpiece of modern furniture in China, which has played a good role in demonstrating the design of contemporary living room furniture in China in recent 20 years (as shown in the left). However, there is still a serious misunderstanding in furniture design, that is, "cottage design". Although the design is getting closer to "internationalization", the striking similarity with foreign furniture styles leads to the reduction of design content, which may be a "necessity" for the development of furniture production at this stage. Consumers are still eager to see the classic furniture designed by our own designers.

4. Future trends of living room furniture.

Some living room furniture materials are cardboard. At present, there is an upsurge of making living room furniture with cardboard abroad. The design of this new product skillfully uses the mechanical principle to make the furniture have enough strength, and at the same time, the surface of the furniture is coated with protective paint. After special treatment, the two weaknesses of being overwhelmed and afraid of water and tide are solved, so that paper furniture has certain functions such as moisture-proof, waterproof, mildew-proof and moth-proof. What makes customers love it is that it can be dyed in various colors. If there is a picture, ordinary cardboard can achieve great support if the main structure is good. )

5. Consumers' requirements for living room furniture

1. Comfort and practicality: the design of living room furniture should pay attention to the functional requirements of "people-oriented", and 80% people think that furniture should pay attention to comfort and practicality.

2. Convenient handling: As decorative living room furniture, "standing still" or even "carrying on the family line" can no longer adapt to the changes in people's lifestyle. 44% want the living room furniture to be easy to move, 10% hold the attitude of "indifferent".

3. Color of living room furniture: The color of living room furniture is in harmony with the modern living room environment, and at the same time it can reflect the temperament and hobbies of the owner, which will be the personalized theme of popular colors of living room furniture in the future. 36% people want the living room furniture to be "in harmony with the room decoration".

4. Price: At present, the "price war" in the living room furniture market is getting worse, but the survey shows that consumers are not the only choice target of price potential (of course, this is related to the consumption level). Nearly 52% people want the price to be "lower", and 48% respondents are "indifferent" to the price.

5. Environmental protection: Among the people surveyed, 60% asked for the living room furniture to be "non-toxic and harmless", and only 4% kept a "indifferent" attitude towards the furniture ring.

6. Living room furniture material: It is an eternal pursuit in people's hearts to use "wood" as furniture, and the key is how to give full play to the quality of wood. In addition, materials such as "glass", "fabric" and "leather" can reflect the texture and affinity of furniture products and are also welcomed by people. The survey shows that 42% people want to use "wood" as furniture; 38% used "glass, leather and fabric"; "Other" accounts for 20%.

7. Service life of living room furniture: Furniture should not be passed down from generation to generation in people's minds. 36% of the respondents require that the furniture can be used for "10- 15 years", while only 6% of the respondents require that the furniture can be used for "more than 30 years".

8. Living room furniture design: The "fashion" of living room furniture has attracted the attention of the industry, rather than following the trend. Pursuing individuality is the concept of modern living room, and it is the concrete embodiment of the transformation from "following" consumption to "rational" consumption. More and more people miss the excellent works of the past, which is the pursuit of life and art and reflects the high-quality life taste (such as the combination sofa on the right, with bright colors, soft lines and exquisite structure-basically in line with people's generalization of women themselves). Personalization of furniture design is increasingly prominent. 48% of the respondents want to participate in the design in person, 30% have a very general attitude towards furniture design, and only 6% are "indifferent" to furniture design.

6. Furniture analysis of famous manufacturers

1, EDRA furniture

The design of edra furniture has always represented the power of avant-garde design. Almost every product can be quickly integrated into the indoor space independently as a good work of art. Its product characteristics are mainly to express a kind of mechanism beauty with materials, so that the mechanism texture can extract more inner beauty of materials. As shown in the following figure, a chair glued with broken boards not only retains the natural texture of the wood itself, but also expresses the freedom and publicity of a deconstructive design concept. But it can't be said that its products are only influenced by any design concept, because each of its products is not only produced for a certain concept, but also very rational in physiological, semantic and industrial significance. This is a furniture company worth learning from.

2.LAGO living room furniture

LAGO is an Italian furniture company, and reform is part of his natural instinct. He thinks that "there are no rules in his place". Living room furniture can have more logical functions and more rational flexibility. They are really designing a life.

The picture on the right shows LAGO's TV combination cabinet, which is a feature of his living room furniture, showing the flexibility of life, and perhaps a wine cabinet can be separated to meet the needs of more consumers.

Protecting the environment and being kind to the earth has become the strongest voice in the world today. Conflicts among nations in the world need cultural exchanges, and the communication between furniture cultures is very important for mutual understanding and tolerance. Understanding regional national culture is an important basis for Lago's design and development, and most of their products can always bring some national culture and interest. The jigsaw puzzle frame on the left is designed according to an activity in ancient China. It is also flexible in space, and can be used for decorative frames of living rooms, bedrooms and study rooms.

7. Summary of market survey

Modern living room furniture makes people happy to find the benefits of adapting furniture to people's lives, rather than people adapting furniture. The sofa gives up all the fancy details, and it is square, solid color, soft, cotton, dark navy or rust red, or simply gray with silver feet. Even if it is a leather sofa, or more in Europe, the handrails are simplified into arcs and the carvings are gone.

Nowadays, the coffee table is not just a place to put some snacks and fruits when watching TV. It's really a decoration, so it's not fussy and disturbing.

Most modern urban youths who pursue individuality like to decorate the living room into a feeling of going their own way and create a personalized world. Therefore, no matter from the color or modeling, we will seek simple and bright visual effects with strong contrast. Regardless of whether the origin of this feeling comes from the most basic aesthetic psychology of human beings, at least in this colorful network age, young people's hearts are destined to fly in a simple and lively fashion style. In the choice and arrangement of living room furniture, every urban youth will linger on those ingenious, clear and generous modernist works, and only in that relaxed style can they find their dreams and feelings. Therefore, most living room furniture works with youthful style will not appear cumbersome and bloated decoration, and their colors should be mainly neutral colors, combined with other bright colors with strong contrast, forming the characteristics of overall harmony and eye-catching details. On the other hand, in modeling, we boldly abandon all structures that hinder the main line, and use ingenious structures and precise details to make up for the emptiness that simple modeling may bring. In addition, living in the city, more people like to add some natural atmosphere at home, hoping to disperse the intense work pressure in the natural feeling.

Today's furniture design circles increasingly recognize and accept this design concept, that is, designing new furniture means designing a new way of life, work, leisure and entertainment ... More and more designers have a deeper understanding of the concept of "the function of living room furniture is not only material, but also spiritual". Modern furniture is developing in the direction of practicality, multifunction, comfort, health care and decoration.

In a word, changing styles, updating functions and improving technology are the development trends of China furniture design, which is also the embodiment of my design relative to the theme of living room furniture.

Second, the topic selection and orientation of graduation project

After 20 years of reform and development, the furniture industry in China has begun to take shape. Now it has been developing rapidly for many years. However, with the innovation of industrial technology and art design, the furniture industry in China is facing great changes. As we all know, the furniture industry in China recently encountered the largest anti-dumping case in the United States. Let's not discuss who is right or wrong, but we clearly see that China furniture urgently needs its own real brand. The road of copying western design in the past is no longer suitable for its development. Only by taking the road of original design and creating your own brand is the real way out for China furniture industry.

If you want to ask me why I chose to make living room furniture for my graduation project, I thought so at first: creating a brand requires cultural exchange. There are guests at home, and living room furniture is the first thing to reflect your cultural concept. At this time, the cultural concept of the furniture brand has shaped your image, and you unconsciously made a free and sincere publicity for this brand. Therefore, it is easier for living room furniture to promote culture and echo the brand war of China furniture.

Of course, the above opinions cannot be used as the only reason. People are under the pressure of survival competition every day. When the road outside becomes more and more noisy, the design of living room furniture becomes more and more exquisite. We often say that "designing a piece of furniture means designing a way of life". For the living room furniture market, although it is slightly calm, there are also many subtle things that are changing people's concept of life. People's demand for home is not only psychological and spiritual satisfaction, but also the actual needs in life, which is reflected in the living room furniture, that is, the function and style are required to be closer to the needs of real life. Diversified functional requirements, in line with the increasingly rich content of life; Style requires diversification, which meets the increasingly strong aesthetic needs of personality. These requirements will also reflect the starting point for my graduation design to choose the design direction of living room furniture.

In order to accurately grasp the market information and establish the significance of graduation design, it is necessary to conduct a detailed investigation on the living room furniture market. In the process of market research, it is obvious that young consumers account for more than 40% of consumers, pursuing individuality is the fashion of the younger generation, and personalized design will be the market trend; Under the pressure of modern people's survival and urban life, more people like simple style to add a little natural flavor; The living room space of Dachuan restaurant is integrated, and the restaurant has the function of showing work and bar. Therefore, my next graduation project must find a solution to these problems, which will reflect a person's design responsibility, and will also exercise myself to integrate into social work as soon as possible, which is of great significance to my future design career. So from the perspective of a student's graduation design, this is the real goal and significance of my graduation design.

Third, the idea and process of graduation design

1, design thinking

Design thinking is a logical process, and it is necessary to judge whether the design has the meaning of existence from the beginning. As Philip Stark, an international design master, said, if a design is not better than what already exists, then we can use the previous one, because this design has no significant existence significance. Judging whether a design exists generally depends on whether it has physiological significance, semantic significance and industrial significance, and semantics is the first. The semantics here not only represents a culture, but also represents an innovative significance. Comparative basis of physiology. A chair should at least have the test of ergonomics, while industrial science is manifested in the design process structure, which is of great significance to the cost. On the contrary, the three complement each other and are an organic whole. We can't give up the other for one.

In addition to adhering to the above standards, I think from the perspective of graduation design. Design can be a little avant-garde, fully increase the content of a design, and express some real feelings in my life. Now I don't think the graduation project needs to be linked to the market, because it is a mirror to express his design ability.

2. Design process

1, the first stage of design: multi-scheme, through the guidance of teachers and valuable opinions of students, find problems and find solutions to problems. Select the following two schemes for analysis:

Option 1: New Chinese Style

The whole style not only clearly shows the flavor of China, but also incorporates the western modernist ideas, and uses the ingenious combination of materials and techniques to fully show the beauty of modern craftsmanship. However, the process requirements are very high, which will increase the production cost, and it is difficult to make a physical object in the graduation design.

Scheme 2: Personalized design of natural flavor.

The whole design has a lot to do with the rope. On the one hand, the rope plays a functional and structural role, on the other hand, it plays a decorative role and enhances the natural feeling of furniture. However, the design is not perfect. For example, the sofa with armrests is not free enough, which is a bit popular. In addition, the coffee table and dining table are a little popular, and the distinct feeling can't come out.

Final plan: living room part

The picture below shows the mesh bed I made during my holiday, which can accommodate four or five adults. Therefore, it is feasible to use the net structure at the bottom of the sofa. As shown in the following figure, the armrest is removed from the sofa, so that people can sit on the sofa more freely, and the coffee table has increased functions, which is more harmonious with the sofa function. And support Ji Fang and TV stations. (pictured) simple and generous, durable and natural.

Restaurant area

In the dining chair, due to the limitation of school equipment and materials in the physical production process, the chair backrest is changed into a straight structure, which changes the flexible beauty of women into the rigid beauty of men, thus reducing the technological difficulty and the cost in the production sense.

In the design of the dining table, in order to jump out of the feeling of popular design and echo the diagonal force of the dining chair, the original wooden frame was completely abandoned in the final design of the dining table, and the concept of more free combination was integrated. The whole wooden frame is divided into two parts, and the glass is connected with the rubber sucker on the wooden frame to ensure that the glass is not easy to slide down.

Physical production

At the beginning of the physical production, because birch was not needed in the design, rubber wood was used instead, but the width of the wooden board needed for the seat and backrest was not enough, so we could only put together a puzzle with white glue and became familiar with spelling.

Board of directors. During the whole process from cutting to final assembly, I encountered various problems, but I will work hard with my brothers who helped us to solve them, which made me more aware of the importance of teamwork. Here, I thank them.

Fourth, summary.

The design of living room furniture, in modern urban life, the proportion of young consumers is increasing, most of them like to pursue a new way of life, revealing personality and publicizing information in their lives, so the design of living room furniture is not only to see what they need, but more importantly, to guide a new way of life with design. Our design responsibility is responsible for the healthy development of people's living environment. Therefore, in the expression of graduation project, I pay attention to the new life concept.

Many people like to watch TV while eating, so I take the dining room as part of the living room furniture design. I also involved the concept of TV rotation in my graduation project, so that we don't have to go out of the dining room to watch TV in the living room.

Young people like individuality and publicity space, living in cities, and more people like to add some natural flavor to their homes, so hemp rope not only satisfies the function of furniture, but also adds a sense of nature.

Modern people like to use the dining room as a learning space, so the dining chair should play more roles, so my dining chair design adds ergonomic adjustment function.

Furniture design is based on function, and we need to create some new functions to guide our design. The research of furniture designers and manufacturers all over the world is also developing in the practical direction. Under the guidance of beautiful and novel eyes, rational design is used to express its function.

With the rapid development of furniture industry in China, the overall design level of furniture in China is not high, which gives me a lot of room for development. When I was about to leave school, I paid special attention to the creation of graduation design, and built a good platform for myself to communicate with enterprises. I am full of confidence in my future work, and I believe that my ability will definitely bring honor to the school.