In the 1930s, an era that made people today imagine and be immersed in luxury. Among them, the Art Deco style that is still remembered by people today.
Art Deco refers to art deco or decorativeism, sometimes referred to as the "art deco movement".
is different from Art Nouveau 's main tangled vines, petals and undulating waves. The patterns in Art Deco are mostly simple geometric shapes, with clearer and sharper edges, and are often repeated and continuous.
The first Decorative Art Expo
Fritz Lang's "The Metropolis" has a typical Art Deco atmosphere
925, a "Decorative Art Expo" in France concentrated the decorative art forms and decorative styles of countries around the world, thus allowing the Art Deco decorative style used in architectural design and furniture design to spread from France to the whole world.
Fritz Lang's "The Metropolis" has a typical Art Deco atmosphere
European Art Deco furniture uses precious wood, and is mostly hand-made by master craftsmen, and is loved by royal nobles or upstart elites. In the United States, most of them are industrialized products.
women's table Metropolitan Art Museum
For example, Zhang Ailing wrote about Mrs. Liang Mansion in Hong Kong: " This white house on the mountainside is streamlined, geometric patterned structure, similar to the most modern cinema. However, the roof is covered with an antique green glazed tiles . "
geometric pattern is undoubtedly the most modern at that time.
Shanghai obviously supports this wave.
843 The " Nanjing Treaty " was signed. After Shanghai opened the port , the concession areas of Shanghai Bund and Xujiahui French Concession , British Concession and other concessions allowed a large number of foreign consulates, foreigners, and people with rights and backgrounds to settle in. What was popular in Shanghai was not only a Western lifestyle, but naturally there would also be Western decorative styles in architecture and furniture.
Republic of China Old photos Seats and table legs are typical Shanghai furniture features
Republic of China Old photos Shanghai sofa
Shanghai architecture and Shanghai furniture in the 1920s and 30s largely showed the wonderful texture of the combination of old-fashioned and modern, classicism and decorativeism.
The upper class that is closer to the West is more pursuing the authentic flavor of European and American furniture. When choosing furniture, wood generally uses imported mahogany, teak, etc. that the West prefers to use.
Republic of China Teak soft-packed rococo rocking chair
. Going to the next point, middle-class, upstart, cultural classes, etc. who are more closely related to the local area, choose to continue to use mahogany .
Republic of China Mahogany Western Wine Cabinet
After the 1930s, Art Deco genes played their best in the Shanghai home furnishing industry at that time, and many of the old villas with decorative styles were built during this period.
Meiling Palace interior view
Similar to Meiling Palace, it also blends Chinese classical and European elements, especially in the details of heavy eaves, glazed tiles, hook-head dripping tiles and other details on the building, with a strong traditional atmosphere. However, the overall interior decoration and furniture layout are more feminine and have more Victorian flavor.
Sun Yat-sen's furniture in his former residence in Xiangshan Road, Shanghai has a stronger decorative meaning.
meiling palace interior
Shanghai-style furniture developed from Art Deco is actually a kind of yearning for "modern", "modern" and "fashionable", but it is also a nostalgic and retention for the past traditions.
Republic of China Redwood inlaid with goiter wood three-curved legs Shanghai armchair
Still still likes to describe Zhang Ailing in Shanghai, " Love in the City " is already lonely Baigongguan is :
" In the hazy, you can see a row of books piled up along the wall in the main hall, Rose Sandalwood box, engraved with green mud style. On the middle of the natural table, there is an enamel self-tone clock in the glass cover. The case has been broken and has been stopped for many years. "
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Furniture and utensils are still in use, such as "Red Sandalwood Box" and "Green Mud Style" decorations, but Western things have also been added.
is particularly obvious when viewed in combination with Chinese and Western styles.
In the traditional furniture language that requires the external display of majesty and status, it compromises the "people" themselves under the blowing of the foreign wind.
For example, Haipai furniture has added softer and more comfortable fabrics to fill the backrest, handrail, seat cushion and other parts. The characteristics of leather cushion lining are also unprecedented in traditional furniture.
Republic of China Redwood grass leaf pattern soft bag Shanghai-style Western sofa set (one set of four pieces)
And the colors of these soft bags are mostly complex and colorful. In addition to the low-key colors such as black, white and blue commonly used in office areas, residential areas often have brown, pink, light yellow or brocade patterns, and even more irritating red and green.
Republic of China Redwood grass leaf pattern soft bag Shanghai-style Western sofa set (one set of four pieces)
Western lifestyle, clothes must be hung in the closet with a hanger, dressing must have a mirror always shine, office needs a table that can be placed on a desk lamp that can pile up official documents, read newspapers and books, and have a cabinet that can be put on...
Republic of China Mahogany Haipai Book and Newspaper Station
is like a pair of chopsticks in the world, while Westerners are indispensable for knives, forks, spoons, big and small.
Western-style living style has brought more refinement in Western furniture, and new varieties have emerged that have never been found in traditional Chinese furniture. The so-called " What do you want, what do I make ".
Republic of China Redwood Haipai wardrobe with mirror
Traditional two-door wardrobe transformed into a large, wide-size three-door wardrobe with mirror, chest of drawers, bedside tables, wine cabinets, desks, swivel chairs, dressing tables, dressing mirrors, long dining tables... It is not surprising that a crowd of people emerged.
Republic of China Redwood Sea-style chest of drawers mirror table
The carved patterns on traditional furniture are mostly dragon and phoenix patterns, crutch patterns, cloud head patterns, melon and fruit patterns with classical auspicious meanings, or ice cracks, back patterns, ten thousand characters patterns, etc., "The work must be intentional, and the intention must be auspicious." The pursuit of "good omen" unique to the oriental people always appears and disappears from time to time.
But decorative, as its name suggests, is purely decorated with decoration. This is particularly prominent in architecture. The neat and bright geometric patterns in the old villas in Shanghai are completely contrasted with the corridors of the old Chinese-style houses.
decorative elements without extension
The essence of pure straight shape has not been fully adapted to decorative furniture. What is indispensable is curves, and it must be lingering and contaminated with the smell of baroquecoco. The carvings, rings, spherical, and cylindrical legs and feet from the mechanized lathe car, and various flowers and fruit patterns still represent the naturalistic aesthetic firm in every corner.
Republic of China Redwood Haipai Wine Cabinet
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