가구의 예술성에 관한 연구

A Study on the Artistic-quality of Furniture: Focused on the Analysis of Contemporary Art Furniture

This article aimed at identifying the concept of ‘artistic-quality’ of furniture and pre-senting the concept of ‘artistic-quality based furniture creation’ as the future direction of furni-ture design. For this, the authors approached to the theoretical background of the concept of ar-tistic-quality, and then examined the prospect of practical application of the concept by analyz-ing the tendencies in today’s art furniture. In this light, ‘artistic-quality’ of furniture could be understood as a quality that triggers the designer’s venturous spirit throughout the process of furniture creation, so that the designer keeps seeking for the novelty and innovation in his ex-perimental design and process. The feature of the current tendencies of art furniture in terms of the expression and effect, which could explain this venturous spirit of artistic-quality based fur-niture creation, could be summarized as follows; first, High-touch: Furniture that exemplifies the artistic-quality by specific texture of handmade quality, second, High-feeling: Furniture that arouses the new feelings and new concepts of furniture structure & function by experiments on new abstract forms of furniture, and third, High-mentality: Furniture that leads us to the sphere of subtle aesthetic recognition and mentality with its specific poetic expression and sensibility.