Introduction: Modern Chinese style refers to a decorative style that refines and integrates Chinese classical architectural elements into people's current life and aesthetic habits, making the classical elements more concise, grand, fashionable and other modern elements. Let modern home decoration have more Chinese cultural charm and reflect the unique charm of traditional Chinese home culture.
Modern Chinese style refers to the organic combination of tradition and modernity. It is the reasonable inheritance and development of traditional architectural culture. From an imaginary point of view, it is a home style that travels through time and space from classical to modern times, so it is also It can be called home culture that travels through time and space. This style has many applications in current architectural design and interior design.
1. What is modern Chinese style?
Modern Chinese style is a type of Chinese style; it is also called new Chinese style. It is an interpretation of the cultural significance of traditional Chinese style in the context of the current era; it is a contemporary design based on a full understanding of contemporary Chinese culture. ?New Chinese style? The style is not a pure stacking of elements, but through the understanding of traditional culture, combining modern elements and traditional elements to create things with traditional charm based on the aesthetic needs of modern people, allowing the heritage of traditional art to be passed on Go down.
2. The origin of modern Chinese style
1. The pace of modern life is accelerating, information is being transmitted more and more quickly, and people have more and more ways to understand the world. In order to express themselves and highlight themselves, more and more people choose to pursue a distinctive and unique personality, and express it in their daily clothing, food, housing, and transportation. However, consciously or unconsciously, people will behave like a vassal of the masses. , so that different fashion elements and styles appear.
2. The fast-paced life makes modern style popular. But some people are not satisfied with the paleness of the modern style and want to give it a certain cultural connotation; some people who accept the traditional Chinese style are not satisfied with its complexity and functional flaws, and want to change it while maintaining the charm. . Thus, the modern Chinese style was born.
3. There is a famous saying: What is national is what is world-friendly, and what is national is fashionable. Modern Chinese style just proves this sentence. However, how to make modern Chinese style well is not easy. The design of modern Chinese style is not a simple merger of two styles or the stacking of elements, but should be carefully considered from the aspects of function, aesthetics, cultural meaning, coordination, etc., and from the perspective of modern people's economy, Starting from the needs of life, using traditional culture and artistic connotations or appropriately simplifying and adjusting traditional elements, and re-creating materials, structures, and processes, the designed work will be a mature work, otherwise it will be either too stale or too old. Too frivolous, painting a tiger is not like a cat, it will make people laugh.
3. Characteristics of modern Chinese style
1. Modern Chinese style furniture generally has deep colors and rich cultural taste. As far as matching is concerned, modern Chinese-style furniture "freely matches" traditional Chinese elements with modern design, becoming a new idea for modern home design and decoration, and also guiding a unique aesthetic thought. Modern Chinese style furniture has strong traditional Chinese cultural characteristics and is suitable for modern people's life. It is overall elegant and solemn and has been liked and accepted by most consumers.
2. One is the interpretation of traditional Chinese culture in a modern context; the other is contemporary design based on a full understanding of contemporary Chinese culture. Chinese style is not a pile of elements, but a combination of modern elements and traditional elements through the understanding and refinement of traditional culture, to create a space rich in traditional charm based on the aesthetic needs of modern people, so that traditional art can be reflected in today's society . The Chinese style inherits the essence of the home concepts of the Tang Dynasty, Ming and Qing Dynasties in design, refining and enriching the classic elements, and at the same time abandons the feudal ideas of class, superiority and inferiority in the original space layout, injecting new ideas into the traditional home culture. breath.
4. Elements of modern Chinese style decoration
1. Modern Chinese style design requires an effective combination of understanding of traditional Chinese culture and sensitivity to contemporary social fashion elements, and makes They can complement each other and be in harmony with each other.
Both are one or even several branches of broad and profound knowledge. The former includes the integration of Chinese history, humanities, geography, classical architecture, Confucianism, Buddhism, Taoism, painting and calligraphy, gardens, Feng Shui, etc.; the latter includes Including modern and Western architecture, art, understanding of life and familiarity with various processes of modern life, sensitivity and understanding of popular elements?
2. The composition of Chinese style is mainly reflected in traditional furniture (mostly Mainly for Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture), decorations and decorative colors mainly black and red, combined with modern bedroom furniture. Most interiors adopt a symmetrical layout, with an elegant style, simple and beautiful shapes, and strong and mature colors. Traditional Chinese indoor furnishings include calligraphy and painting, plaques, hanging screens, bonsai, porcelain, antiques, screens, ancient shelves, etc., pursuing a state of life that cultivates one's moral integrity. The characteristics of traditional Chinese interior decoration art are that the overall layout is symmetrical and balanced, upright and stable, and the decorative details advocate natural taste. Flowers, birds, fish and insects are carefully crafted and full of changes, which fully reflects the perfection of the traditional Chinese aesthetic spirit and modern style. combine.
3. Chinese-style decoration pays more attention to the antique tone, and pays attention to the matching of accessories and furniture with Chinese characteristics. Authentic old furniture is the most attractive. Purely handmade Chinese classical furniture such as mahogany bookcases, Taishi chairs, antique shelves, palace canopy beds, and partitions carved with flower and bird patterns best reflect this decoration style. ?If you have old furniture at home, in addition to being used for appreciation and collection, you can also put it to new uses according to their different sizes and styles, and inject contemporary design elements according to your own home decoration style to make it unique. The effect!? Another point is the later decoration. Chinese decoration pays great attention to harmonious and natural matching. If it is just simple conception and placement, the later effects will be greatly reduced, so it is best to invite experts to provide on-site guidance for the later stages of Chinese-style decoration.
4. In addition, lighting cannot be ignored, because lighting can adjust flowing colors. Quan Shui said that the colors of Chinese-style decoration pay attention to a kind of flow. Generally speaking, the color is mainly brown, which is particularly simple and natural. If the entire tone of the house is brown, it will give people a depressing feeling, so lighting needs to be used to adjust it.
5. Modern Chinese style makes more use of postmodern techniques, redesigning and combining traditional structural forms to appear as another national characteristic symbol. For example, a set of Ming and Qing style mahogany furniture is placed in the hall, and a Chinese landscape painting is hung on the wall. Naturally, a traditional study room is indispensable for its bookcases, bookcases and the Four Treasures of the Study Room. The Chinese-style living room has inherent style. For comfort, sofas are often used in Chinese-style environments, but the colors still reflect the simplicity of the Chinese style. The expression of the Chinese-style style makes the entire space, traditional and modern, modern. Classical. In this way, a rhythm controlled by the Eastern aesthetic concept of "blank space" shows everyone's style. The calligraphy and painting on the wall is not about the quantity or content, but the artistic conception it creates.