上海家具业具有悠久的历史,上海的传统家具是我国有名的明清家具的组成部分,在国内外享有盛名。随着西方家具文化传入上海,上海家具逐渐发生了变化,西式家具异军突起,成为上海家具业的重要组成部分。十九世纪40年代,上海开埠后西方人士纷纷来沪经商办厂,陆续在租界落户定居。开始时,有的随家属带来了他们的西方家具,有的通过洋行购买进口的西方家具,有的则提出式样和要求在上海定制,因此也就带来了西方的家具文化。西方家具传入上海,使上海家具业的同仁开阔了眼界。以后随着西方侨民来沪的日益增多,西式家具的需求量不断上升,上海生产西式家具的条件便逐渐成熟起来。清同治十年(1871年),宁波籍的乐宗葆在南 Shanghai’s furniture industry has a long history. Shanghai’s traditional furniture is a part of China’s famous Ming and Qing furniture and enjoys a good reputation both at home and abroad. With the introduction of Western furniture culture into Shanghai, Shanghai furniture has gradually changed, and Western-style furniture has suddenly emerged as an important component of Shanghai’s furniture industry. In the 1940s, after the opening of the capital in Shanghai, Westerners came to Shanghai to set up businesses and settled in the concession. At the beginning, some brought their Western furniture with their families, some bought Western furniture imported through foreign companies, and others proposed styles and requirements tailored in Shanghai, which also brought Western furniture culture. The introduction of Western furniture into Shanghai has opened the eyes of colleagues in Shanghai’s furniture industry. Later, with the increasing number of western expatriates coming to Shanghai, the demand for western-style furniture has been rising. The conditions for Shanghai’s production of western-style furniture have gradually matured. Ten years of the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty (1871).