Modernism-Modern Furniture

Beginning in the 20th century, the style of furniture has gradually departed from classicism, discarded those complicated decorative arts, and moved towards practicality and functionality, while conveying concepts through design styles. The modernist movement is an extremely far-reaching and extensive design movement, adopting rational and regular forms, combining new technologies and new materials, and being suitable for mass production. These requirements have also become necessary conditions for design at that time. The red and blue chairs are typical works of the style school in the modernist movement.

In the history of art, it is difficult to find another work that can perfectly embody an art theory. It is composed of machine-made wooden strips and laminated boards. The 13 wooden strips are perpendicular to each other to form a basic structural space. Each component is fastened with screws instead of mortise joints, so as not to damage the integrity of the components. The backrest of the chair is red, the cushion is blue, the wooden strips are painted black, and the ends of the wooden strips are painted yellow, to indicate that the wooden strips are just a piece of a continuous component. Affected by the red and blue chairs, Breuer created a series of extremely influential steel tube chairs in the furniture workshop of Bauhaus, and named them the Wassily chair opening a new chapter in modern furniture design. These steel tube chairs make full use of the characteristics of the material, the shape is light and elegant, and the structure is also very simple, becoming a typical representative of modern design.