Modular Ceramic Furniture Design for Responding Condominium Resident’s Taste

             Currently ceramic furniture style in Thailand does not conform decorating modern-styled condominium. Also it is not designed to utilize usage for limited-space living unit. Although, ceramic material provides good advantages for developing variety of furniture’s form, surface finishing, and pattern that could create furniture’s appearances for many decorative styles. However, current ceramic furniture in the market has not been developed its visual elements to respond modernist living usage in condominium. This research aims to study and develop design direction for ceramic furniture to respond condominium resident’s taste using elements of appearance. In this researching, qualitative data is used to determine resident’s factors in term of their needs and requirements. Quantitative data is used for determining elements of appearance in term of usage and style which influence resident’s decision making in using ceramic furniture. Studying result indicates that target group does not expect ceramic furniture as main functional furniture. In fact, condominium resident looks for multifunctional furniture style that can provide modernist usage. This results in using modular structure to efficiently utilize space, usage, and manage appearance of ceramic units. The result of this research indicates that modular ceramic furniture which notates multifunctional usage with minimal style can symbolize modern living style of condominium resident’s taste.

Credit : สิทธิพงศ์ วงศ์ไชยสุวรรณ

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