A SEARCH FOR THE USE OF NATURAL WOOD IN NORTHERN PENINSULA COUNTRIES OVER CHAIR

Abstract

Users establish their visual and physical communication with the furniture around them through their sensory organs. The properties of furniture perceived by our other sense organs, especially the sense of vision, help to understand the furniture identity in terms of material and design. Material; the physical perception of the visual features reveals the form through factors such as technology, function and requirement; colors, textures, materials are the result of many complexes, undefined physical effects and perceptions. Design, on the other hand, emerges as a result of many influences such as the place where the designer lives, the cultural community he is in, aesthetic concerns, the material he uses, the color, the relationship with space, style, being fixed or mobile. The material and structure that make up the form in the seating elements, although its design is affected, it varies according to the spaces, needs and actions. As a seating element, the chair varies according to anthropometric features. In recent years, when comfort conditions have ceased to be a luxury and become a necessity, cooperation between technology and materials has gained importance and designers aim to offer different solutions to diversify the use of seating elements and raise standards. Scandinavian countries consist of countries such as Norway, Finland, Denmark and Sweden located in the north of the European Continent. Simplicity and function constitute the essence of Scandinavian design. In the designs, the emphasis is on the forms that create simple integrity rather than the ornaments to make an eye. The designs are structuredclearly by paying attention to design details in the design, high-quality hand workmanship during the manufacturing phase, the use of natural materials, and the synthesis of comfort and function elements together. This approach has enabled Scandinavian design understanding, which has a deep-rooted and respected place in design culture, to reach a wide range of users of their products by designers who are icons of tradition such as Hans J. Wegner, Finn Juhl, Poul Kjaerholm, Alvar Aalto, Bruna Mathsson and Viktor Alm. The aim of this study is to evaluate the use of solid furniture by Scandinavian designers over the chair as a seating element, in terms of design and material use, and to examine it by scanning research method, one of the qualitative search techniques. In the scope of the study, iconic chair designs of designers such as Hans J. Wegner, Finn Juhl, Poul Kjaerholm, Alvar Aalto, Bruna Mathsson and Viktor Alm were examined. As a result of the study, it is aimed to examine how adaptation to environmental factors affects the design, and draw attention to how the resulting designs are lean and uncomplicated approaches in detail analysis is integrated with the material.