Modelling Modular Living: Furniture and Life Magazine and Interior Design in 1980s China
Modelling Modular Living: Furniture and Life Magazine and Interior Design in 1980s China
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模块化生活建模：20世纪80年代中国家具生活杂志与室内设计
DOI：
10.1093/jdh/epab043
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发表时间：
2022
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0.2
通讯作者：
Altehenger J
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作者：
Altehenger J
1981年，《家具与生活》杂志在中华人民共和国西安创刊。到20世纪80年代末，它已经成为一本著名的家具和家居杂志，阅读其DIY指南，建议专栏和家庭故事。每期都讨论了如何美化家园，如何将中国共产党对“社会主义物质文明”的愿景转化为实践和生活经验。本文以“家具与生活”为例，阐述了模块化家具在城市室内设计中的作用，以及80年代的文化想象。80年代是文化大革命结束后中国共产党经济改革的第一个十年。它追溯了杂志成立的背景，说明了为什么家具已经成为全国许多人迫切关注的问题。然后，它展示了编辑，他们自己通常是建筑师，家具设计师和工程师，如何专注于模块化，“板式”家具，以解决人们的具体问题，小生活空间和个人空间的愿望日益增长。在这个过程中，杂志的编辑们将组合家具和室内装饰与中共的社会主义物质文明和精神文明的愿景联系起来，从而试图为广泛的政治概念提供具体的形式。
In 1981,Furniture and Lifemagazine commenced publication in the city of Xi'an in the People’s Republic of China. By the late 1980s, it had become a well-known furniture and home-making magazine, read for its DIY guides, advice columns, and home stories. Each issue discussed how to beautify homes and turn the Chinese Communist Party’s vision for a ‘socialist material civilization’ into practice and lived experience. This article uses the case ofFurniture and Lifeto chart the role of modular furniture in urban interior design and the cultural imagination of the 1980s, the first decade of the CCP’s economic reforms following the end of the Cultural Revolution. It traces the context in which the magazine was established, illustrating why furniture had become a pressing concern for many people across the country. It then shows how editors, themselves often architects, furniture designers, and engineers, focused on modular, ‘board-style’ furniture to solve people’s concrete problems of small living spaces and a growing desire for personal space. In this process, the magazine editors connected modular furniture and interiors to the CCP’s vision of socialist material and spiritual civilization, thus trying to lend concrete shape to broad political concepts.