An analysis found while I was surfing on the Internet :

The Study of Taiwan Aboriginal Culture on Product Design
by Tyan-Yu Wu, Chi-Hsien Hsu, Postgraduate School of Industrial Design, Chang Gung University, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, and RungTai Lin
Department of Crafts and Design, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taipei, Taiwan


http://140.131.24.185/net/New-E-NET-01/Project-01/E_Expert_Mode/01.Theory_&_Achievements/E1-02/E1-02-01.content.htm  

--Last edited by gehaobo on 2008-03-08 06:28:51 --

Hi Gehaobo,

after months of reading and thinking my brain is melting.

I'm a bit lost in my furnishing designs and doubting about the possibilities to mix aborigines, chinese, japanese and western influences into a piece of furniture/object.
There are a few references concerning furniture in aborigines culture. But i noticed that furniture's primary function was functional, like for the Paiwan's stool in your collection, unlike now. In "taiwan's imagined geography" by Emma Jinhua Teng (republished by SMC publishing, Taipei... thanx for the tip, their books are so student-friendly, it's even cheaper to buy than to copy), I found some representations of benches/daybed made by bamboo. But as the title of the book recalled, i have to be careful with this kind of illustrations commissioned by the Emperor.

The list of furniture/living objects I found is really short: bench,stool,pillow,matress.

However, i decide to express aborigine's influence through the use of "raw" material avoiding a Post-Modern approach, mixing and matching patterns on an none related shape.
I just try to express what seems to be the essence of furnishing, without copying or imitating.

Do you have some infos about furnishing in Aborigine's culture ?