Sofa design knowledge
Sofa comfortable and pleasant, efficient rest and a seat on the Elimination of fatigue in the best supplies; elegant appearance, is the ideal indoor decorations; gorgeous style and help beautify the living. With the improvement of living conditions and living standards, the sofa has become the favorite of modern necessities and widely popular public works of art. The sofa style, scale, materials, color and texture, the indoor atmosphere to play a positive role in the formation. Today, the sofa in the work of people brought a ray of happy, a little comfort, but also to spare the family life of the infinite warmth, comfort and spiritual release and the Netherlands.
1. The sofa trackback
“Sofa” is the English transliteration of the Sofa, is from abroad. People abroad so-called “sofa” generally refers to three seats, that is the couch. At present, is often used to describe a house for two or more people sit or recline one designed with back and arm of the chair cushion. As a result, China’s furniture manufacturing industry accustomed to the “sofa” for the extension of all the seats of software.
The sofa in the narrow sense is defined as a spring with a pad on the low seat chairs; broad sense is defined as a pad or soft contact with the surface of the seat, lying appliances, such as stool sofa, sofa chair, sofa bed, and so on. Sofa cushion is the core of the constitution, the spring has been to develop into a flexible plant fibers, animal hair, foam rubber and foam filler, and so filled with Tengpi, weaving rope from, sealed in soft sets With air or water and pose, as well as springs can be used with flexibility with the use of filler made of composite. Sofa with access to parts of the human body has a soft touch on the surface, it also collectively referred to as software sofa furniture.
Sofa can be traced back to the origin of about 2000 BC the ancient Egypt, but in the true sense of the soft sofa package is seen in the 16 century to the early seventeenth century. At that time, the horse’s mane with the main sofa, bird feathers, plants and so on natural Villi flexibility as a filler material, the use of outside velvet, embroidery fabrics, such as masked, so as to form a soft contact with the surface of the human body. At that time, such as the European general public for the use of popular Chinese stars Nagel (Farthingle) chairs, sofas and chairs is the first one. In 1828, the beginning of spring on the sofa get the applied. In 1904, Morris (Morris) invented the spring assembly, is a group of speakers will be spring-loaded framework, which is a modern deep-seat sofa originator of spring. 1920, Dan Luo Fu (Dunlop) invented a new energy-absorbing technology - foam rubber technology, which is in charge of natural rubber latex into the gas and then poured into molds and molding and drying, so as to obtain A flexible filler - foam rubber. The application of foam rubber sofa greatly simplifies the process of filling masked, but also the appearance of the spring-pad and function of the quality of results. The 1960s, the development of air, water, energy-absorbing success, marking the sofa manufacturing technologies mature.
Recalling the history of the development of China’s sofa, to most of the Han Dynasty, “Yu a few.” “Notes Xijing” tied described thick layer of fabric Zuoju “a few jade,” China can be seen as a sofa “ancestors.” Tang Dynasty, the palace has been the emergence of belonging to the summary of the sofa cushion, “Royal chair.” In the era of the Ming and Qing dynasties, furniture design and production of new technology breakthroughs, there have been known to the world of the Ming and Qing furniture, but in the energy-absorbing structure of the furniture is not much progress. Until the early liberation of our country’s manufacturing sector was beginning to take shape on the sofa. Now, the sofa has become an indispensable household furniture, but also to Sofa style of the material to be used as the functional requirements of health care even higher and higher. In addition to the seat rest, all types of vehicles, aircraft, marine vessel’s seat, factories and hospitals to operate Taiwan chair, office chairs, mattresses and a variety of all requests made of the sofa-type structure of the software to meet more people The pursuit of high-level life.
二. Sofa design and development of the status quo
From the sofa in the 18th century to the simple shape of the 20th century, the sofa after numerous interior designers and furniture designers transformation of numerous great masters of their hand, by the people of the world today has become a favorite household items. This shows that come out from the sofa, the sofa on the design of the study has been interruption. Many designers have outstanding design works, such as Walter? Kraft (Walter Cave) in 1900 about the design of the Tao Mu at the end of rush seats, a simple and natural; Charles? Sumner? Gray (Charles sumner Greene) in the 1907 Design The new hall style armchair, showing that the Gray brothers for the Oriental Arts and Crafts style and ingenious combination of inspiration; Edwards? J? Wo Muli (Edward J wormley) in 1947 designed a simple and rare, “Listen to me,” the couch; Kyrgyzstan Lattanzi house? Germany? Perth (Gionatan De Pas) in 1970, the design called “Joe” sofa, 1970s pop culture into the design of a very good evidence that it is very uncomfortable to sit up, Very interesting, and fashion; Ji Tanuo? Peise (Gaetano Pesce) in 1980, New York, designed a sofa in the sunset, this group of clever ideas on the sofa, fabric and color choices to the idea of the performance was very good; Jiesen Po? Morrison (Jasper Morrison) in 1992 to design a very simple three-person sofa, in addition to means of a sexy, wave-form, is also extremely smooth contours … … the nature of development, that is, “The only change the Is always changing. ”
In today’s age of information and knowledge-based economy under the conditions of people with the changes in lifestyle and taste of the increase in demand on the sofa showing some new changes and consumption: the traditional sofa spring has reduced the demand for new materials, natural materials Sofa made of increased demand; traditional leather sofa reduced the demand for cloth sofa sales have occupied half of the sofa; sit on the bed ﹑ ﹑ storage, and so on the sofa reduced demand for multi-function, high-tech materials used for production design, more in line with the ergonomics The study of a single function of leisure sofa in the ever-increasing demand. As a result, as a designer sofa should be based on these changes to update the design concept and design ideas, keep up the pace of development of the times, creating more demand for people to adapt to the “new” modern sofa.
1) The functions of the sofa design
Ergonomics is the purpose must be to achieve a comfortable, safe and efficient. In order for people to use in a comfortable and easy to operate the state must take into account the sofa design and use of the scale of the human body’s position on the sofa, and other elements in order to make the sofa and among the best in a state. As a result, safe, convenient, comfortable, durable sofa can be a “people-oriented science and technology” and the spirit of humanistic concern.
At the same time be able to adapt to a few sitting on the sofa in the design, function design of the sofa is a new concept is to reduce the fatigue one of the most effective way. Sofa (Ruan Yi) category in furniture design features tend to pursue adjustable, and variability of combinations. Ruan Yi category for work with the sofa, to emphasize its high seat, back, the angle adjustable to suit different human body, the use of different state of comfort. In addition, in order to maximize the use of the sofa function, there will be in addition to the sofa as Zuoju, its function will also be an extension of the design. If the sofa will be combination of parts designed, through a combination of different forms on the sofa or some of the additional ancillary facilities to expand the use of the sofa and use of comfort-convenience. Such multi-functional sofa particularly suitable for family use, had been the favorite of consumers. As the people’s living standards, increased home space, modern sofa in the use of more tend to be sitting in the pursuit of comfort and randomness, people have begun to choose the kind of design even more simple and casual, full of interesting personality of the sofa. With the pace of life and people
The growing tension, also the sofa toward health-direction, there have been computer massage sofa, magnetic therapy, medication and inflatable sofa massage sofa, and other new products.
2) The design of the sofa
Modern living room sofa designed not only solemn traditional, modern and exaggeration; both ancient romantic, and avant-garde novel. Its function, material, structure and style and so there have been larger. Focus on the functional scale, energy-absorbing properties and curves back under the premise of the pursuit of a more diverse style and personality changes. If a combination of energy-absorbing layer, and the transition superposition, variations in shape, color match, as well as the use of non-structural components of wood decoration, and so on, are the modern style room sofa opens up horizons.
In the surging tide of economic globalization, people living in a standardized, and the industrialization of high technology products, the desire for more changes in life, more personality, more emotional things; desire through the use of natural, original, ancient style The furniture in order to change following the same pattern as a result of the industrialization of products caused by the monotonous life of the poor. Sofa with the work of the people living closest, most likely to get a warm feeling of natural living items. Now the original, ancient, natural style antique sofa, designed in the classical-style production on the basis of color and materials used means of comparison, the use of new technology so that it is full of ancient, primitive style, yet modern , And the ease of machining.
The sofa should not only reflect the shape of the line, face, body of the plastic arts and, more importantly, according to the theory of ergonomic design on a sofa in the study and application. In recent years, the shape of the sofa out of a single style, but rather East and West, traditional-style design combines reasonable, practical at the same time incorporation of elements of life, so that the sofa is the most attractive, the most humane products .
3) the sofa material selection
Sofa materials are masked two types of materials and structural materials. Today’s trend of environmental protection have a direct bearing on the selection of material on the sofa. Stressed the original, ancient, natural flavor of the sofa is one of the trends in the selection of materials, such as leather, wool natural hemp fabric popular: a good quality leather sofa, Zhezai natural and beautiful and wear. In addition, the use of modern fabric sofa fabric, sofa cloth suit many images rich in features, it is not love Optional hand. It is not leather sofa, “set in stone faces stiff” and less true Pei serve to launch an attack of the “precious disease.” Sofa cloth to show not only the gorgeous room style, classic style, the same can also be interpreted Wenya charm and style of the nation. With the improvement of living standards, in a wide range of Western culture exchanges, cloth sofa is bound to be more and more popular.
The sofa frame materials, generally selected wood, bamboo, rattan, Liu, and other natural materials. Such as logs, tree tumor framework for materials, and natural paints, and other large surface finishing, the pursuit of primitive simplicity of texture. In addition, the decorative surface can also use a waxing process to deal with, treated fairly smooth surface, good weather, can clearly show the natural wood texture, which stressed that in the original, extended rough, rustic natural materials properties to win.
With the emergence of new materials, the sofa frame materials have begun to adopt a variety of industrial materials, the use of advanced processing technologies and means, such as the use of metal, plastic, and other industrial materials of the special processing, by cleverly processing, to highlight its artificial The United States, the United States and machining of the decorative effect.
Modern sofa from the framework of a single song to the development of the Wooden wood, laminated wood, metal, and plastic and other materials
Constitute the framework. Furniture designers generally prefer the use of plating steel pipes, flat steel or aluminum alloy to produce the framework of the corresponding location of the steel frame of this simple process, takes many forms, from the sofa and modest and clumsy in the image out, get a lighter and more The appearance of the position. End of the 20th century and the emergence of a new type of popular framework is the molding of the shell structure, with its porous polystyrene or rigid polyurethane molding but it seems to be buried in advance and used a metal chassis The combination of connected components.
三. Modern design of the sofa to create a new era
After 4000 years of development, both the production of materials, shapes, structures, or in color accuracy, the sofa is very great changes have been much higher. Many new materials, new technology applications, to show their talents in the production of the sofa, the sofa design more innovative, generous, beautiful, with a strong sense of the times; the structural design of a more scientific and rational, with the combination of ergonomic closer, more Well adapted to the human body shape, physical conditions, the use of a more comfortable sitting and lying.
Development of new products based on new ideas to create new furniture. The outstanding performance of new products designed for the distinctive characteristics of the furniture style, with artistic appeal. Sofa belonging to the practical works of art, both technical content and artistic content, designers require both technical and artistic quality. This requires from the arts institutions are good at design and engineering colleges to come from technology, the structural design of the known designers tacit cooperation, complement each other, work together to develop products.
In today’s high-tech advocate, the furniture industry in the design of the sofa to achieve progress in the interest of achieving development, designed to be more in line with market needs more good products; have to use high-tech means to carry out the use of computer-aided design, and design more Be able to adapt to the changes in human life, enhance the quality of the new sofa. It can be predicted that China’s manufacturing industry sofa, is bound in the modern big step forward on the road, a large number of both national characteristics and rich characteristics of the new sofa will come out one after another, the design of the sofa in the 21st century will be the arrival of a new era.
