In late Ming Dynasty, SuZuo Ming-style furniture had culminated in the history of furniture in China, which integrated technology and art of traditional furniture with diversified forms and various features. Based on narrating the design ideas and characteristics of SuZuo Ming-style furniture in late Ming Dynasty, it summarizes how SuZuo Ming-style furniture has been developing and inheriting by modern designers, so as to provide some references for people to understand and study SuZuo Ming-style furniture in late Ming Dynasty more conveniently. Historically, the furniture, which is produced around southern region centered on Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Wuxi, is collectively known as "SuZuo". The traditional SuZuo can be divided into framework and joinery work. Joinery work includes furniture, appliances, doors and windows; furniture of which occupies a very important position of all. As a result of effects generated from the political, economic, cultural and other factors, Ming-style furniture in late Ming Dynasty was designed and manufactured by literati and skilled craftsmen who made it rich in elegance with unique rhymes and exquisite craft. And SuZuo Ming-style furniture, which was abounding in Suzhou, is praised as the typical representative of Ming-style furniture. It is praised all over the world for concise form, exquisite proportion and elegant lines.
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