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Scandinavian furniture design on the whole, is a function of, but it is not as functional as strict and dogmatic. It features of the difference is: it shows that the opponents of tradition and respect for natural materials and preference; it in the form of soft and more organic and therefore very strong feeling that it has a strong ethnic characteristics, and respected Standardization Production of the functions of the different international styles.
In the design of the history, people more freedom to form the Nordic transferred to the organic style of modernism. In fact, organic modernism and the Nordic style and there is a certain degree of difference.
Organic Modernism mainly prevalent in the United States after World War II. During this period, the Western world because of the war has withstood the destruction of material deprivation, economic durability to the principle of the functions of the widely accepted and agreed great development. "By the mid-1940s, function and has gradually include a lot of style changes, these changes left the Bauhaus geometric forms and machine language aesthetics," people complain about the function of stereotypes, indifference of the design. The organic modernism is in such circumstances came into being.
1937-1949, the Museum of Modern Art in New York as the center, held a series of chairs design competitions, organizers hope that through such activities to promote modern design industry in the United States and the impact of competition and to develop a Series features of the standard. These criteria include: the design of the products should be suited to its purpose, suitable for the use of materials suitable for production process and subject to form functional, and so on. Consistent with the standards of design called "good design," design competition is to promote a natural form of the emergence of modern design style, known as "organic modernism."
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