Why is it more comfortable to look at with wood than with metal? Can it be clarified psychologically

Furniture contains two major elements: material and spiritual, the material part is the overall presentation of materials, shapes, craftsmanship and colors, and the spiritual elements are the cultural core expressed by the furniture through the material presentation in front.

Each piece of furniture contains a special texture given to it by the times and nations, and this precipitation from time and space brings more visual beauty and emotional expression to the furniture. Today we will take a look at how wooden furniture expresses emotions.

Emotion is a general term for the psychological feeling process, and the emotions expressed in furniture are prominently expressed in people's subjective experience, which is what we usually call happiness, warmth, pleasure, dullness and other subjective feelings.

If a designer wants to use furniture to stimulate people's emotions, he must first make the furniture conform to human nature, or use some techniques to make people feel and experience similar emotions. For example, the design of furniture is light and flexible, which will stimulate people's tranquility and comfort, and make people feel warm and friendly.

In furniture design, designers mainly control the emotional expression of furniture through the use of four elements, namely:

The material of the furniture, the color of the furniture.

The shape of the furniture, the decoration of the furniture.

These four elements intersect and reinforce each other. The elements are harmonious and unified, and complement each other, so as to fully and clearly express the emotions of the furniture.

The material is the basis for making furniture, and the texture and texture of the material are the basis for the artistic image of a piece of furniture. The material of the furniture brings us a very real and intimate feeling, so from a certain point of view, the material of the furniture can determine the overall effect of the furniture.

The emotional expression of the material of wooden furniture mainly lies in the reflection of its materiality and human emotions when it meets. "Lao Tzu" cloud:

The birth of the instrument is when it is nothing, the use of the instrument. Dig the door to think that the room, when it is not there, the use of the room. Therefore, some are used for profit, and nothing is used. ”

The material feel of furniture can be divided into two categories, visual texture and tactile texture.

In furniture design, the grasp of materials is the basis of design, and how to combine the texture of wood itself with the design of furniture is a lifelong task for craftsmen. Whether the material is soft or firm, whether the texture is delicate or rough, and whether the texture is smooth or surging, all need to be considered in advance.

For example, Huanghuali furniture, the texture is flowing water, under the direct light or light, it can never hide the amber-like charming and dazzling gold, and sometimes the texture is like a gently swaying water wave, giving people a sense of eye-catching.

From the perspective of human development, human beings have been in the jungle for a long time, getting along with trees day and night, and subconsciously, this is a relationship of adaptation. However, human beings have only mastered metal tools for more than 2,000 years, and it has only been decades or hundreds of years since they were able to manufacture metal furniture on a large scale, which creates a contrast in adaptation. This is subconscious.

In terms of feeling, wood products are generally poor conductors of heat, which produce a sense of warmth when used, and are very less affected by the season, while metal furniture is a good conductor of heat. Human instinct is very sensitive to heat loss. When there is an object that can snatch heat from the body, it feels uncomfortable.

Therefore, even hard wood is more comfortable than hard metal.