Western homes over the last decade has openned up an exciting new set of options that can marry both eastern and western interior styling, art deco and materials. Apart from the individually crafted furniture, color and textures that regale the sights, there is now the concept of tranquilit, pease, harmony as well as movement and flow in interior decorating that are exquisitely borrowed from oriental design philosophies.
Design movement includes concept of feng shui that in recent years have found their way being integrated in contemporary home interior design. Some of the decorative artifacts from the east have also found their way into western homes to complement, blend or accentuate traditional western design values. One major design influence come from China furniture.
The unmistakable Chinese arts and crafting signature often create a striking character and visual contrast to the often simplistic minimalist lines of modern styling. Elaborate carvings and woodcuts along with inlaying of precious materials like mother of pearl, jade and marbles can create an accentuating touch of detailed pomposity that serves as an accenting counter ploy in the design elements that go into the modern home.
Chinese Screens Offer Mobile Privacy
Oriental home decor can alter the look and feel of modern western homes. They can provide anywhere from a calming, peaceful and relaxing ambiance to a contemplative meditative one with calligraphic wall arts, orotund lamps and stylized depiction of nature in such China furniture as the iconic mobile Chinese screens and room dividers with the accordion folding mechanism.
We've seen them in many European film noir and Hollywood crime movies with your femme fatale dressing or undressing behind these Chinese screens. But these have a lot more functional use than shielding a lady's dressing regimen. As a portable room divider than are often just shoulder-length in height, Chinese screens allows you to segment a large room or simply create a floor-standing artistic artifact to accentuate room decor.
They come in various artistic statements with the simplest ones using wicker screens marked with calligraphic art while the most elaborate one use inlaying of precious materials like jade and mother of pearl. Heir frames can be simple Rosewood woodcuts and carvings exposing natural grain or can be heavily lacquered typical of many Qing dynasty furniture. Whichever Chinese Screen styling you choose, the unmistakable designs define the this China furniture specimen as a worth addition to any fine home interior.
