Since people started using the residence, there is a tendency everybody wants the furniture as complementary, even tried mendisainnya own. From history it is known that the rapid development of furniture design includes hundreds of styles and a variety of models. Encyclopedia of Furniture (USA) is one good source of many revealing description / detailed description of the design of furniture, although there are difficulties for the application of illustration and compilation placement in the compartment right, but the style and model of its design can be inspiring and almost entirely can actually be used to date.
In the initial period, the design is done is designing furniture traditional way, then the next period is the modern way, but until now there are a lot of models of a mix of traditional and modern, which can incorporate the features of the old style with the other features that describe the model style of their own ,
Model furniture in the early period in America, what is called a model of the colonial era, dominated by traditional models, but until the Age of cutting-edge of this, the designers creatively develop the work of design, including the style of Modern, style Transition, Oriental style, the style of Scandinavia, French, Italian and Spanish style or a Mediterranean style, all it turned out to be the main reference in the development of the history of furniture anywhere, including in Indonesia.
Any type of furniture produced in the era of colonial America in 1608 up to the year one thousand eight hundred and thirties is what is referred to as Furniture Models of Early America or furniture colonial model. Determination of the initial period was characterized by a massive amount of wood used to build homes and furniture.
With simple hand tools used continue to grow firmly, to the use of modern equipment becomes part of a very useful and integrated with the purposes of the activities of many people, then created the furnishings / furniture for storage, seating, beds, furniture for feeding purposes, and furniture for purposes other activities.
Construction of Forming and Bending
This construction consists of a set of parts, verge, poles, and other components made of solid wood (solid) or laminate is bent and / or formatted / formed for the design of furniture, for example a seat / backrest chair with curved shapes. Until now the technique of bending wood remains an exclusive technique, though in the original Scandinavian country, the technique has become a common thing for the history of wood-processing techniques are already very old.
Bending equipment in Indonesia, is still an expensive item of furniture for the workshop or garage. To still achieve technique of bending wood will require a special way that can only be applied to jeins strand board. whereas for solid wood more often pursued by forming bending / curvature by removing certain parts of the meat timber to form the desired bending.
The technique of bending wood is an effort to change the nature of the wood with a variety of ways, the heating so that it can adjust firmness-forming particles of wood, or by making a slit (groove) is widened in the transverse direction along the plane of buckling board (kerfing).
Wood furniture
Furniture construction types commonly used, can not be separated from the system and the typical splicing and links to wood construction. You could listen to that a connection / relationship wooden construction shows what is called a “standard” format / form, variety, and the proportion needed to be adapted and adopted for the benefit of a particular design, in engineering work and modeling of furniture, especially in the aspect of construction. (John A, Walthon, 1979).
The advent of modern synthetic resin material adhesiv, it can extend the using possibility menyambungan system and menyediaan surface imitation for the purposes of any furniture or other objects. Generally resin adhesiv with the effects of wood fiber used in the manufacture of furniture and accessories. The emergence of synthetic material, makes the typical and furniture construction system is more varied. Judging from the aspect of material and construction system, then you will be able to observe, that the type and typical furniture construction are as follows: (John A, Walthon, 1979)