How foreign design and Chinese elements are integrated into mahogany furniture

Mahogany furniture is one of the essence of Chinese traditional culture, born in the Song and Yuan dynasties, long in the Ming and Qing dynasties, orderly transmission, long history! Since the Opium War in the 1840s, China's door was forced to open, Western culture accompanied by Western materials into China, Chinese culture for the first time and Western culture integration, the birth of social changes, specific to the design of mahogany furniture, is the late Qing Dynasty began to the Republic of China period, to Guangzhou area, Shanghai area as the representative of the Western mahogany furniture style, Shanghai furniture was born, a large number of Western cultural elements, such as Western architecture on the Roman columns, a large number of curves, building doors, exaggerated carving, The sea beasts, passionflowers, tiger claw lions, etc. in the carvings lasted for -60 years, and there were epoch-making changes in the design style of mahogany furniture. Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, there have been no new cultural elements embodied in the design of mahogany furniture, so the mahogany furniture on the market is either to learn the style of traditional Chinese classical furniture, or to learn the style of Shanghai furniture of the Republic of China, and there is no third type of design style.