A Study on the Low-Tech Plastic Furniture Design - Focusing on the Furniture Designers of Handicraft Methods of Plastic Design -

This study shows how the plastic furniture design has developed in general and by contemporary auteurist designers. Plastic furniture design began with Mies van der Rohe's chairs produced with compression moldings, and was later successfully commercialized by Knoll and Herman Miller. Plastic undoubtedly played a significant role in giving modern furniture design its current status with its suitability for efficient mass-production. However, the expectations consumers have for designers have extended by the widespread internet accessibility along with the higher standards of the well-developed design industry, and now mass-production is no more the only key to appealing to those in need. Based on the information gathered from the process above, analyses were done on the works of various design artists in the current industry, which leads to certain suggestions that would help bring the plastic furniture design to the next level as a whole.

플라스틱 가구디자인의 로우테크(low-tech) 기법에 관한 연구 -플라스틱 디자인 수공예적 방법의 가구디자이너를 중심으로-