The fascinating Ming-style furniture refers to furniture products with good materials and craftsmanship from the early Ming and Qing dynasties.
They seem to combine perfect proportions of shapes, styles and workmanship. With their simplicity, elegance, implicitness and ingenuity, they have become an art form with oriental philosophical beauty.
In 1944, the German scholar Gustav Ike collected and mapped a batch of excellent examples of Chinese hardwood furniture, becoming the pioneering work of modern and modern Ming-style furniture research.
"It has no disguise at all, showing a pure beauty and respect for materials" "creates a simple and calm extraordinary demeanor." In the book, Ike described Chinese hardwood furniture represented by Ming-style furniture in this way.
It is this book that has made the world discover Ming-style furniture "as perfect as a mystery", which has opened up collectors' pursuit of it, and the furniture industry, architecture industry, cultural relics industry, interior design industry, historical community, etc. are paying attention to it.
Ming style furniture fragrance spreads around the country and abroad. In the view of scholars, the wisdom of predecessors condensed by Ming-style furniture and the simple and simple meaning contained in them resonate with modernist aesthetics, especially minimalist aesthetics. Both pursue a fresh, elegant, scientific and practical design idea.
For example, in terms of shape, Ming-style furniture emphasizes the beauty of lines, and outlines the body space with the continuity of curves and straight lines, full of philosophical charm, and turns often start from practicality, generous and decent.
Wang Shixiang When evaluating a Ming Dynasty Huanghuali armchair, he once described it like this: "If you look from the side of the chair, you can see the curve of the human body from the buttocks to the neck."
Also, in terms of color and materials, Ming-style furniture often chooses high-quality wood such as Huanghuali wood , Rosewood , Tielli wood , Rosewood , Rosewood , etc., emphasizing the purity of the material use, and making full use of the texture of the material itself to restore the beauty of the material.
Many collectors have found that Ming-style furniture still looks comfortable and coordinated in modern spaces, and it can even withstand various fashion changes.
What is more worthy of attention than the beauty of the artifact is the attitude of life and humanistic spirit that implies it.
When many people are obsessed with Ming-style furniture, they are not only obsessed with the beauty of simple objects, but also include the poetic life of their owners, traditional Chinese literati and poets.
ming Qiuying "Tung Shade in the Day"
piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry, tea and wine and other lifestyles of ancient Chinese literati cultivating their minds and cultivating sentiments all act as voiceovers of Ming-style furniture.
For example, incense is born from the elegant taste of literati and scholars burning incense and smelling incense. It is small and sparse and has long "dragonfly legs". Another example is a table, which is mainly used to decorate vases and other decorations in the main hall or entrance hall.
Ming-style furniture is intoxicating with the aesthetics of ancient Chinese literati, and is intriguing.
This is not a luxurious and exciting pursuit of aesthetics, but the "Changwuzhi", which is regarded as a model of the aesthetics of life of literati in the Ming Dynasty, proposed in "There is no time, no simplicity, no cleverness, no vulgarity."
It is not difficult to find that Ming-style furniture, as a daily sitting and lying equipment, does not aim to relax the body, but reminds people to correct their shapes from time to time, thereby guiding people's spiritual introspection.
Take the most representative Ming-style furniture, the ring chair, as an example. Its chair plate area is quite large, which is not conducive to leaning back on the back, and people cannot sit in it in a loose posture.
This is actually the original intention of the design of the ring chair. The center of gravity falls on the thighs rather than the buttocks, which reduces the weight of the head that the spine bears and maintains the integrity of the spine. On such a chair, people can sit for a long time and feel comfortable and quiet all the time.
