Critical Discourse of Postmodern Aesthetics in Contemporary Furniture (Ⅱ): The Characteristics of New Design Furniture in terms of the Postmodern Aesthetics of Communication

This study explored the characteristics of contemporary furniture called New Design furniture design in terms of aesthetics of communication in the postmodem era. Qualitative conceptural analysis as the principal methodology was used to explore the characteristics of New Design furniture, which is accessible to the broadest possible public. Thereby, the communicative elements of symbol, metaphor, narrative, animation, imagination, humor, and/or wit expressed in New Design furniture were analyzed according to the designers concept and work. As a result, the postmodem aesthetics of communication made New Design furniture accessible to the largest number of people through cultural considerations in New Design furniture as it influences designers concept and work. However, it should problems of New Design furniture in connection with postmodem aesthetics affecting mass production. Therefore, the designers have begun rethinking, redefining, and redesigning their furniture aesthetically, functionally, economically, and ecologically.