What's the difference between furniture, furniture and home furnishings?
Furniture is made up of four factors: material, structure, appearance, form and function. The function is the precursor, the driving force of furniture development. The structure is the backbone, and it is the basis of realizing the function. These four factors are interrelated and mutually restricted. Because furniture is designed and made to meet the material needs and purposes of people, furniture also has the function and appearance of form factors. The following four main elements of the content and the relationship between each other.
Therefore, furniture is both a material product and an artistic creation, which is often referred to as "dual characteristics of furniture".Furniture type, quantity, function, form, style and production levels and then share, also reflects a country and area in a certain historical period of social life, social material civilization level and the historical and cultural characteristics.Furniture is a country or region in the sign of the development level of social productivity during a certain historical period, is a microcosm of life, the show is a cultural patterns, so the furniture embodies the rich and profound social.
From the point of view of words, furniture is a household appliance; in some places it is called furniture, that is, household sundries.To be exact, furniture has a broad sense and a narrow sense.Furniture of broad sense is to point to mankind to maintain normal life, be engaged in production practice and carry out social activity indispensable kind of apparatus.Narrow sense furniture means a kind of equipment and equipment for people to sit, lie or support and store things in life, work or social practiceThe furniture is not only a simple functional material products, and is a widely popular public art, it must meet certain specific purposes, but also to meet for people to watch, make people have a certain aesthetic pleasure and a rich legend spiritual needs in the contact and use of the process.