아동용 가구디자인 요소의 고려 사항 연구

A Study of Consideration of Children’s Furniture Design Elements

With the advent of industrial society, the phenomenon of nuclear families has brought many changes in the family environment. Of changes, a decrease in the number of new-born babies led to one-child families, which then led to an increase in interest in children. Interest in children gave birth to a consumptive trend called “kids marketing,” and phenomena of generous investment and consumption for children appear to continue to the future. In reality, too, the consumer market of children’s apparel and learning materials for children has sharply increased over the past few years, and products related to children have become the center of family consumptions. Therefore, at this point when children are the center of consumptive life in the family and the relationship between products and users is becoming an increasingly more im-portant variable, the conductive research focusing on children is necessary. These important fac-tors embraced wide areas of activities in research on children, from children’s physical changes, children’s preference, such as color and material, to children’s consumptive environment, as they can provide a foundation for furniture design suitable for children.