Why do elders love Chinese furniture?

The psychology of the elders, in addition to really knowing how to collect and appreciate, most of them feel that mahogany furniture can maintain its value (or simply say that it can appreciate), can be inherited, and even feel that the value of a set of sofa wood can reflect their financial resources. I think that more rational is to inherit, pass on to the younger generations, mahogany furniture culture has not stopped inheriting from ancient times to the present, it can be regarded as a feeling of Chinese for mahogany furniture. My parents were both wood carvers, and I was exposed to all kinds of wood and carvings from a young age.

And when I was two or three years old, my parents also spent tens of thousands of dollars to buy a set of mahogany sofas and dining tables, and the tens of thousands at that time are equivalent to hundreds of thousands now. I asked them why they chose to spend so much money on mahogany furniture at that time, and my father said that he still liked mahogany, and the sofa making process and the style of the sofa, as well as the carving on it (at that time, it was more popular to make birds and other shapes with colorful shells on furniture, inlaid in a whole carving), and mahogany furniture could appreciate in value. To be honest, my parents are already a more rational consumer, in addition to the value of making furniture wood, they really like and understand the production process and carving process of this set of furniture.

Elders and younger people have different understandings of furniture. In the eyes of many elders, buying furniture is the same as buying a house, and it must be able to "maintain its value". Tens of thousands of dollars, can't be spent and gone, must be exchanged for something of equivalent value and stored at home, by the way, use this thing, of course, after a few years can appreciate higher.

And mahogany furniture is a commodity that appears in response to the psychology of the elders. As a former mahogany furniture industry practitioner, I can clearly tell you that the vast majority of mahogany furniture in the current market has no possibility of value preservation and appreciation, and I estimate this proportion to be more than 90%. Because if you want to sell the furniture you bought back home, you have to find a buyer with similar vision and financial resources to you, which is very difficult.

The disdain chain level gap of mahogany materials is very large, as long as there is a gap in vision and financial resources, people will not look down on you. Although I don't have any money now, I have seen a lot of high-quality mahogany furniture, and now the "treasures of the town" in those furniture malls are really unsightly, and I can find dozens of hard injuries at will. Those so-called treasures of the town hall, even if they are discounted by 5%, will still continue to be in the town hall.

Of course, there are indeed a few elders who really love Chinese classical furniture. There are many elders around me who have become interested in traditional culture when they are older. Older people lose interest in chasing new things in the outside world and have to seek pleasure in traditional things.

It's a pity that the mahogany has been fried for so many years, and the furniture worth playing with has become so expensive that it is against the sky. <>

When I first got married, I never looked at Chinese furniture. After the age of 35, I can feel the goodness of mahogany furniture more and more. I don't express myself well in detail.

After a few years of Western-style furniture, you will find that the appearance of goods, with the use of the will soon fall apart, even if the Italian and French expensive brands are just ordinary wood, patent leather stickers or carved stickers beautiful, the more you use it, the more you feel that the grade is low. Moving can be almost fatal to such a home. Mahogany furniture you see is a beautiful wood for a long time, almost no need to paint or natural plant paint, no nails, mortise and tenon structure, natural environmental protection and lasting noble, classic style is more and more durable.

The carvings of Western-style furniture are generally attached to them, while the large-scale carvings of Chinese-style furniture are generally used to cover up flawed logs. I just looked at a set of golden silk nanmu cabinets in the furniture city, and I was salivating. Who wouldn't love a beautiful carved cabinet with a woody fragrance without paint?

It's just that the price is too high. But Italian furniture also costs hundreds of thousands, what is there? It's just a piece of broken wood and a skin.

Zhihu's user base is too young, and in another 10 years, you will find that the various shortcomings of fashionable and convenient Western-style furniture and the various attractions of Chinese tradition are now seen. <>

There is a nostalgia complex.

The main material of Chinese furniture is solid wood, and solid wood has the characteristics of natural environmental protection and health, and the material of solid wood determines the long service life of solid wood furniture, which is in line with the consumption concept of the elders.

And the unique cultural heritage of Chinese style and the characteristics of calm is a characteristic that the elders like, the Chinese style will generally be integrated into the ink painting, ceramics and other decorations with classical charm, at the same time, in the choice of patterns, textures generally choose Chinese oil paper umbrella, dragon, lion, pine chrysanthemum Meilan and other auspicious patterns with traditional historical and cultural charm.

However, Chinese style is too calm and not suitable for the aesthetics of the modern younger generation, so the style of integrating modern elements into classical Chinese style is more popular with everyone - new Chinese style.

If the subject is decorating and has disagreements with the elders, you can consider the new Chinese style, and it is better to embrace the differences than to compromise on one side.

Elders and younger people have different understandings of furniture. In the eyes of many elders, buying furniture is like buying a house, and it must be able to "maintain its value". Tens of thousands of dollars of money, can't be spent and gone, must be exchanged for the equivalent value of the thing to store at home, by the way to use this thing, of course, a few years later can appreciate higher.

And mahogany furniture is a commodity that appears in response to the psychology of the elders. As a former mahogany branch of the furniture industry practitioners, I can clearly tell you that the vast majority of mahogany furniture in the current market has no possibility of value preservation and appreciation, and I estimate that this proportion is more than 90%. Because if you want to sell the furniture you bought back home, you have to find a buyer with similar vision and financial resources to you, which is very difficult.

The disdain chain level gap of mahogany materials is very large, as long as there is a gap in vision and financial resources, people will not look down on you. Although I don't have any money now, I have seen a lot of high-quality mahogany furniture, and now the "treasures of the town" in those furniture malls are really unsightly, and I can find dozens of hard injuries at will. Those so-called treasures of the town hall, even if they are discounted by 5%, will still continue to be in the town hall.

Of course, there are indeed a few elders who really love Chinese classical furniture. There are many elders around me who have become interested in traditional culture when they are older. Older people lose interest in chasing new things in the outside world and have to seek pleasure in traditional things.

It's a pity that the mahogany has been fried for so many years, and the furniture worth playing with has become so expensive that it is against the sky.