{"id":5609,"date":"2016-07-22T09:50:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T09:50:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/javafurniture.com\/news\/?p=5609"},"modified":"2016-07-22T09:50:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-22T09:50:54","slug":"functional-furniture-yet-artistic-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/functional-furniture-yet-artistic-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Functional furniture, yet artistic &#038; fun!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Liu Meng <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Furniture that is aesthetic pleasing, artistic and practical is on display at Pep Design&#8217;s Fun Design exhibition in Beijing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>A boy sits on a whale sofa.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liu Feng and Sun Wentao, the people behind Pep Design are showcasing their interpretation of how furniture should be.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want people to feel that they can play games with their furniture,\u201d art director Liu Feng explained.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Animals and nature form the inspiration behind Liu&#8217;s creations. Pep Design&#8217;s \u201ckidult\u201d sofas take the form of a whale, hippo, dog and horse, producing zoo-like surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>Liu said that since the exhibition opened a young boy visits almost three times a day to lie and play on the whale sofa.<\/p>\n<p>Liu&#8217;s cloudland sofa series draws its inspiration from nature. With soft, smooth lines and subtle colors, the collection is aimed at producing a powerful visual effect of relaxation.<\/p>\n<p>Creative manager Sun Wentao said that most of his inspiration comes from the memories of his childhood.<\/p>\n<p>His work \u201cSpray\u201d is a small artificial hill made of sponge, \u201cBamboo\u201d is a metal ikebana vase shaped like the plant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe artificial hill and bamboo all come from images of the ancient Chinese poetry I recited in my childhood,\u201d Sun said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUsing modern materials to give voice to traditional symbols is the core of my designs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liu said that despite the exhibition&#8217;s success, the production of original designs in China is difficult due to the lack of a well-developed industrial chain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a process behind original design; material development, brand promotion and product distribution. The success of original brands is mostly due to a mature industrial chain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fun Design is being held at the Maison Mode Center on Dawang Lu, southeast Beijing and runs until July 31.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Explore the World, Understand China!<br \/>\nPlease log on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.globaltimes.cn\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.gloaltimes.cn<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p>source :\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 http:\/\/news.alibaba.com <!--adsense--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Liu Meng Furniture that is aesthetic pleasing, artistic and practical is on display at Pep Design&#8217;s Fun Design exhibition in Beijing. A boy sits on a whale sofa. Liu Feng and Sun Wentao, the people behind Pep Design are showcasing their interpretation of how furniture should be. \u201cI want people to feel that they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5609\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}