Furniture Design Ideas

Skeletal furniture is the products of linear and surface structure, in which elements do not close a space. Like in the group of case furniture, we distinguish: • main element, forming the function and construction of the furniture piece (leg, backrest board, seat frame, top panel—usually the worktop of the table), • complementary element, providing […]

Case furniture is the goods of a volume structure, in which the surface elements limit and close a given space. Among the large group of elements of a case furniture piece, we distinguish: • the main element, without which the furniture piece loses its functional nature and the construction becomes a mechanism, • a supplemental […]

The concept of quality first appeared in the philosophy of Plato, who called it poiotes. Cicero, when creating Latin philosophical vocabulary, for the Greek term, created the Latin qualitas. Hence, qualitas infiltrated some of the Romance and Germanic languages, e. g. as qualita in Italian, qualite in French, quality in English and qualitat in German. […]

By creating a division of furniture according to the technological characteristics, one should keep in mind both the variety of used machining processes and the types of materials used, as well as methods of finishing visible surfaces. Technologies of manufacturing furniture can be brought together into four main groups: machine cutting, machine bending, weaving, and […]

The characteristics of form and construction of the furniture piece are determined on the basis of spatial organisation of form, interconnection of main structural com­ponents and architectural structure of the product. Depending on the spatial orga­nisation of the form, i. e. from the spatial distribution of individual elements of the furniture piece, three basic schemes […]

In terms of functionality, furniture can be divided into the following groups: • for sitting and lounging, • for reclining, • for working and eating meals, • for learning, • for storage, • multifunctional furniture and • complementary furniture. Each of the given groups is characterised by specific properties and requirements: • of exploitation, that […]

In terms of purpose, i. e. the conditions and nature of use, furniture can be divided into three distinct groups. For furnishing: • offices and public buildings (office furniture, school furniture, dorm furniture, hotel furniture, cinema furniture, hospital furniture, canteen furniture, common room furniture, etc.), • residential rooms in multi-family and free-standing buildings (flat furniture, […]

Furniture belongs to the group of objects of applied arts, and many of them have similar structural, technological, functional, operational and aesthetic features. For these reasons, making a distinctive and obvious division of furniture is difficult and to a large extent depends on the experience and intuition of the author of such a division. The […]

2.1 Characteristics of Furniture Furniture is objects of applied arts intended for mobile and permanent furnishing of residential interiors. Among other things, it serves for storage, work, eating, sitting, lying down, sleeping and relaxing. Furniture can be used individually, in suites or sets. A furniture suite (Fig. 2.1) is a collection of articles, often of […]

In the 1920s, the fame of the Weimar school of design, architecture and Bauhaus applied arts grew at a rapid pace, which was founded by Walter Gropius (1883— 1970) in 1919 and moved to Dessau in 1925. Above all, the use of metal in the production of series furniture was a revolutionary move in the […]