A Study on the Shape Design of the Folding Table

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As one of the forms and shapes of modern furniture design, folding furniture is a reflection of increasing aestheticism and daily life, being the inevitable trend of the variety of furniture design. Folding dining table is mainly for the young in the city, displaying its fashion and novelty from its shape and interior structure; projecting its perfect combination of traditional material and modern craftmanship from selecting the proper material; presenting the concept of creating the need to boost consumption by studying the products aesthetic value and human value. This article is to predict the future trend of modern funiture design through the above-mentioned three aspects.

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A Study on the Shape Ddsign of the Folding Table
Yuan Liu*
School of Mechanical Engineering, North China Electric Power University, Baoding City, Hebei Prov.
China, 071003
xbsdliuyuan@126.com
Keywords: Folding furniture. Individual aestheticism. Traditional material. Modern crafmanship.
Abstract. As one of the forms and shapes of modern furniture design, folding furniture is a
reflection of increasing aestheticism and daily life, being the inevitable trend of the variety of
furniture design. Folding dining table is mainly for the young in the city, displaying its fashion and
novelty from its shape and interior structure; projecting its perfect combination of traditional
material and modern craftmanship from selecting the proper material; presenting the concept of
creating the need to boost consumption by studying the product’s aesthetic value and human value.
This article is to predict the future trend of modern funiture design through the above-mentioned
three aspects.
Introduction
With the development of the society and incresing competition, people have a fast pace of life.
However, the dwelling space is narrow and small, gradually there is a change in aestheticism among
more and more young city dwellers: they seek after the brief, fashionable and humanized furniture,
which is convenient to use and can make full use of the limited space. Thus it caters to the need of the
young generation. In this case, the folding dining table not only meets the need of the market, but also
satifies the cosumer psychology, and it is a drastic aesthetic change in hi-tech era to have a high
quality life. As a classic furniture design (refer with: Fig. 1,Fig.2), the design concept is as followed.
Fig.1 Folding Table Rendering Fig.2 Folding Table Side View
The principle of Design
The physical appearance of product is the carrier of information, coveying the ideals and concepts of
the designer, producing a series of mentally and physically interaction through visual effect and
finally making a decision to pruchase.
Orientation. This design, firstly, is for the young city dwllers for they can easily adapt themselves
to the fast pace of life in city and it’s easy for them to accept new things, therefore, they consider
the physical appearance and novelty important, which is a pushing force for the aestheticism in this
period. So the design should take the fashion, novelty and creativity into consideration. In design,
roundness is the first option, derived from the traditional value of being “round”, and it is implying
Advanced Materials Research Online: 2014-05-21
ISSN: 1662-8985, Vol. 933, pp 619-622
doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.933.619
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