Nowadays, many families in China emphasize antique style, which is considered as a fashion, and antique furniture also follows suit. Antique furniture first highlights imitation, that is, imitation, and the other is antique, which refers to household appliances that imitate the daily use of the ancients, mainly referring to beds, cabinets, tables, chairs and so on. In recent years, with the gradual appearance of the humanistic value of antique furniture, it is more and more loved by people. Below we will bring you information about antique furniture, hoping to help you.
The value of antique furniture:
The value of antique furniture includes its artistic value, historical value (cultural relic value) and economic value.
1. Artistic value mainly refers to the artistic personality and style of an antique furniture, as well as its nationality and regionality. The more typical its personality and style, the higher its artistic value.
2. Historical value is also called cultural relic value. The historical position and present function of antique furniture are mainly determined by its characteristics of the times and the number preserved so far.
3. Economic value refers to the market value of antique furniture, which is determined by its artistic value, historical value and the relationship between supply and demand.
Wood commonly used in antique furniture:
1, rosewood
There are many kinds of rosewood, belonging to Dalbergia of Papilionaceae in Leguminosae. Among Dalbergia plants, except Dalbergia odorifera in Hainan Island, which is called "fragrant branches" (commonly known as Huang Huali), all the others belong to acid branches. There are three kinds of rosewood: black rosewood, red rosewood and white rosewood. They * * * have the same feature that they give off a taste of edible vinegar during processing, so they are named sour branches. Of the three kinds of rosewood, ebony is the best. Its color ranges from purplish red to purplish brown or purplish black, the wood is hard and the polishing effect is good. Some are very close to rosewood and are often mistaken for rosewood, but most of them are rough in texture.
(1) black acid branch
Black rosewood is mostly produced in Southeast Asian countries, East Africa and Indonesia, and its heartwood is chestnut brown. Sour branches are a kind of natural deodorant, named after emitting a sour taste, and black branches are no exception. In addition, it has obvious black stripes, so it is called "black acid branch". Dark and retro in color, the blackcurrant branch has a small market share and great collection investment value.
(2) Red rosewood
The texture of red sour branches is more obvious than that of black sour branches, and the texture is flat and the color is mostly purple. The color of white rosewood is much lighter than that of red rosewood, and the color is close to that of Cao Huali. Sometimes it is easily confused with Cao Huali or even Vietnamese Huanghua pear.
(3) White acid branch
White sour branch is produced in Myanmar. There is no rosewood red or rosewood oil. Close to Dalbergia odorifera in the national standard. From the wood type, the white acid branch is larger and the red acid branch is smaller, so it is not convenient to measure when it is small. Therefore, white sour branches are priced by meters, and red sour branches are priced by tons. In contrast, white rosewood is about half cheaper than red rosewood.
2. Redwood
Rosewood belongs to Pterocarya. Its wood is hard, its texture is clear and its color is soft. When the wood is slightly lighter, it is close to the center of the wood, but the deeper it is, it is red or purple. In fact, this is the true color of rosewood.
3. Boxwood
Boxwood, a small tree with fine texture, is extremely bright in color, and some are egg yellow. Because it is difficult to grow, there is no aniseed. It is often used to make wooden combs and carvings, and is also often used as a mosaic material for furniture. Boxwood is a common evergreen plant in tropical and temperate zones, which is widely distributed in the southeast coast, southwest China and Taiwan Province Province. There are 4 genera 100 species of Buxus. It is an evergreen shrub or small tree with yellowish wood, tough texture, delicate texture, moderate hardness, no brown eyes, long growth period and no aniseed. Boxwood grows very slowly. It blooms in winter and bears seeds in spring. It usually takes 40 to 50 years to grow to 3-5 meters high and the diameter is less than 15 cm. Therefore, there are sayings that it is difficult to plant boxwood in a thousand years and it is difficult to make a beat in a thousand years (a kind of beat in musical instruments). In ancient times, it was said that boxwood was not only short in leap years, but also shortened. Song Sushi: "As the saying goes, Huang Yang grows one inch at the age of one, and retreats three inches in case of leap", so it is called "the Millennium is short".
4.nanmu
There are three famous varieties of Phoebe bournei: one is Phoebe bournei, whose wood is purplish, fragrant and beautiful in texture; Second, Jin Sinan with gold thread in the wood grain is the best nanmu. What is even more rare is that some nanmu materials form natural landscape figures; Third, nanmu wood is soft and often used to make furniture. Nanmu belongs to Lauraceae, and there are many kinds. Yan 'an and Zinan are the main buildings and furniture commonly used. The former is an evergreen tree, which is produced in Ya 'an and guanxian, Sichuan. The latter, alias Jin Sinan, is produced in Zhejiang, Anhui, Jiangxi and southern Jiangsu. Nanmu has elegant and symmetrical color, small expansion deformation, easy processing and corrosion resistance. This is the best cork.
5, striped ebony
Striped ebony, as its name implies, is striped ebony. The national standard of mahogany separates striped ebony from ebony and becomes a category independently. Mume stripe Mume and Mume belong to Persimmon of Persimmon family. Persimmon belongs to the genus Persimmon, and the difference between them lies in the wood color: the heartwood of ebony is black, while the heartwood of striped ebony is black or chestnut brown with faint stripes. In ancient times, striped ebony was called wood, ebony and ebony. Jin Cui Bao's Notes on Ancient and Modern Times: "Wood is black and literate, also known as ebony." The Jin Dynasty combined with Southern Vegetation: "The wenmu tree is seven or eight feet high and black as a buffalo horn, and used as a whip in the south." According to ancient books, "Wu Wen" will be lucky in the future, and Wu Wen will be rotten. In Japan, ebony and striped ebony are called ebony. According to the book Nanyang Wood written by Suto Meiji, the heartwood of striped ebony is black, and the stripes are gray or reddish brown.
How to make antique furniture;
1, old materials produce new ones.
This kind can easily be mistaken for the original. Although the original factory is damaged a lot, the damaged parts, such as seat surface and back plate, are homogeneous old materials and look almost the same as the original factory.
2, parts assembly
Piece together a new piece of furniture with different parts of old furniture. For example, add four legs of another chair to a square desktop and add half a table panel to make a table. Although it seems to be all old materials, the basic form of ancient furniture has been lost, but it is essentially an antique because of the imbalance in proportion.
3. New materials and new works
This kind of furniture is not difficult to distinguish from the shape or wood, and the price can be high or low, which can be regarded as ancient new furniture. There are two ways to do this. One is to refer to the catalogue of Ming-style furniture and imitate it according to the graphics in the book; The other is not paying attention to size, regardless of scale, modern function and classical modeling.
Pay attention to furniture materials. Especially the materials of cabinet furniture, the interior may be filled with miscellaneous wood. The repair materials of secondary materials will affect the normal life of furniture.
4. New materials, new works and old works
Is now often said to be false. It uses modern physical and chemical methods, spraying, corrosion and other methods to create an antique feeling. This kind is the hardest to find and has many collectors.
New materials and new works, new products made in full accordance with the style of ancient furniture, pursue the retro trend. Don't deliberately make the optical effect of ancient furniture.
The above is antique furniture. How's it going? The whole content of value and production method.