Many interior furnishing cases lack a systematic and comprehensive understanding of this basic demand, and the design elements were pieced together indiscriminately. It has an urgent need for “integrated design forms”. The interior furnishing design is a discipline with a strong systemic and thematic nature. The trend of “jumbling together” and “crisis of feature” have become a common problem that restricts the development of interior furnishing design.įirst of all, the problems of “jumbling together” in interior furnishing design are as follows: bringing design elements together in a random way makes them lose the context in which they depend (Xie, 2017).

Problem Statement: Interior Furnishing Design in the Context of “Jumbling Together” and “Crisis of Feature”ĭue to the development of economy and the integration of social communication, design shows a general sense of convergence from the perspective of culture. Although scholars have identified the importance of symbols for design research, the design method of “semiosis” is reflected in the interior furnishing design, which is very lacking.Ģ. This idea is shared by Holt (2017) in which “if the design is a signifying practice, common to all semiotic-based design theory is the search for a language, or at least a grammar, of design”.Ĭompared with traditional architectural semiotics and environmental semiotics, the “semiosis” design method concerned in this research emphasizes the whole process of using symbols in design, which has strong dynamic characteristics.

Geoffrey Broadbent (1980) argued that some architects have found one or more of the semiotic approaches of value in design generation, there is ground for believing that semiotic approaches have application throughout the whole of designing. In the field of design, particularly in architecture, landscape and interior design studies, the semiotic approach is not unknown (Goharipour, 2019 Pereira & Calo, 2017 Lindström et al., 2011 Lindsay Tan, 2011 Loustau, 2008). Semiotics is the theory par excellence of the artificial and therefore should have a substantial role in guiding design and understanding designed phenomena.

In recent years, as a new direction of traditional interior design and an important complement, interior furnishing design has become an independent professional direction (Xie, 2018).

Interior furnishing design belongs to the field of interior design, in the broad sense refers to the construction and planning of spatial themes, in the narrow sense refers to the design and collocation of specific furnishings.

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