When it comes to the furniture designing, the first group of stuff that appear in people minds are inevitably things like chair, desk, bed, cabinet, etc. Virtually, furniture should include everything that you can find at home, such as door, window, curtain, lighting, electric appliance, kitchen utensils, bathroom stuff, even the locks and toys.

On the other hand, along with the coming of the industrialized society and the emerging of the modern designing movement, some furniture-like stuff like office furniture, system compartment, street furniture, car furnishings and body-building facilities have gained great development, and were put into the furniture category for their similar nature.

It might be a little tricky to analyze the post-modern products in the big scope of designing( construction designing, industrial designing), So we'd better start from the history of the furniture designing.

The furniture designing is very promising in the modern designing movement( like the office furniture, street furniture, car furnishings and body-building facilities). In the post-modern furniture designing movement, the furniture designing will face some specialized changes, for which we will have a clear analysis below.

1, The thoughts on the Post-modern furniture designing

•  The post-physiologism and post-curative effectism

From the development trend of the modern furniture designing, there has made a great achievement in both office furniture developing and system compartment developing.

According to the post-physiologism, furniture designing should not only consider about the size of human body, material and the environmental change, nor will it only consider about the apply of the knowledge existed in the process of Human-machine-environment. The post-physiologism indicates that the furniture designing has already expanded to the apply of the knowledge on how to adjust the physiological change.

The post-curative effectism, which is more advanced than the post-physiologism, is noted for its stress on medical effect that is a must-have condition for the medical equipment but not confined to it.

•  The enhancement of the system furniture( elastic unit furniture)

In the introduction of the post-physiologism and post-curative effectism, we have already mentioned about an important achievement in the modern furniture designing---system compartment and office furniture. We believe that the conception on modernism system furniture and the achievement on designing will be further enhanced, moving forward to the elastic unit furniture, which goes with the change from public society to the groups society, from groups society to the small society.

•  The trend towards elaboration( bathroom and kitchen)

As for the impact brought by the post-modernism to the designing of bathroom and kitchen, more elaborate might be the right word for it. No doubt there still exists differences in some fields. Although the functions of bathroom are still confined to showering and answering the call of nature, but with the reducing of noise, economizing of water, the application of pottery, even making commercial by inviting Liu Dehua, a very famous star, to sing holding a toilet bowl in his hands, the designing of bathroom is pursuing nobility and elaboration.

（ 4 ） The influence brought by construction designing and product designing.

There have been lots of overlaps between the furniture designing, construction designing and industrial designing. The construction designing and product designing has exerted direct influence on furniture designing. Although we can't say the post-modern furniture designing is the copy of the post-modern construction designing and the post-modern product designing, yet we shall not deny the fact that a large percentage of the products, appeared in the post-modern designing contests and exhibitions, are designed by the architects.

•  The minorities in the post-modern furniture designing.

It seems pretty lively as we talk about the post-modern furniture

designing above. Because it is hard to talk about designing without talking about art, along with the overlaps between the furniture designing, construction designing and industrial designing, it is hard to clearly divide the post-modern designing into several small factions. We can only roughly divide it into: Classical designing, national designing, practical designing, futuristic designing and Italian designing.

The classical designing refers to the reappearance of the representative designs from the past highly civilized cultures. Because each culture has its owe unique characteristic, It gets very tricky to conclude the characteristic of the classical designing.

The national designing refers to a type of classical designing, which highly stress on its own character that is different from country to country. Generally, the scope of the classical designing is bigger than that of the national designing. In this way, the national designing stress more on the apply of the local feature and the use of the local material.

The practical designing stress on the utility of the furniture, here it doesn't just refer to the function but, more importantly, its economicality, convenience and closeness to everyday life.

The futuristic post-modern designing refers to the newest way of life, newest activities and the newest taste existing in your imagination, especially the designing with the testing nature. The so-called imagination should also base on the facts, along with the humanized test.( not just the test on engineering)

The Italian designing was created by the Italian futuristic designer after the world wars. If we want to discuss on whether some post-modern designings have come to maturity, then the Italian designing is probably the only one that meets the requirements. It is because Italy had cultivated so many excellent futuristic designers who have revived the glorious Roman culture and offered important resource for designing.