Chinese Furniture: Interior Design of Traditional Residential Buildings

Author: Liu Senlin
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Features: This book is the second volume in the "Liu Senlin Traditional Human Settlements and Cultural Studies Series" and primarily explores the interior design of traditional residences. It involves the study of ancient Chinese architecture, ancient Chinese art, ancient Chinese craft art, and ancient Chinese material culture, integrating these fields into the interior design of traditional residences. This approach enables us to gain a holistic, systematic, comprehensive, and in-depth understanding of Chinese decorative art, a cultural heritage that encompasses both material and intangible aspects.
Research on the interior design of various ethnic groups, social strata, and different eras in China first requires mastering a vast amount of material, such as collecting literature and examining actual examples. The effort Liu has devoted to this has been beyond the imagination of ordinary people. In typical academic research, one speaks as much as the evidence supports, which is already astonishing in today's academic world where one can speak extensively with only a fraction of the material. However, Liu's approach is to speak as little as possible even with a hundred times the material.