二十世纪的家具特色是花式繁多。有光滑、凉爽的钢管家具;有用手工木料式曲木精雕细刻的家具;有用硬塑料制作的花式家具以及用软塑料制作的不定形家具等等。它们制作的基本原则是应用当今各种材料和技术,去寻求舒适、实用和经济、美观的造型。历史推崇的风格——装饰和个人的表现手法—几乎不为考虑之列,使设计纯粹追求造型的价值。最好的现代家具,尽管它可能非常豪华、昂贵,显示出设计者的高度敏感和才智,但有不具名、不受时间局限和适于普遍使用的特点。这种家具几乎完全抑制了个人的自我表现,样式简洁新颖,符合美学和技术的基本要求。早期的现代家具中,最有趣的是在传统的材料——木料上施用新技术。德裔奥地利人迈克尔、托民特(Michacl Thonet)设计的曲木家具就是一 Twentieth century furniture features are fancy. There are smooth, cool steel tube furniture; carved handicrafts of wood with fine carved furniture; made of hard-plastic furniture and the use of soft plastic made of amorphous furniture and so on. The basic principle of their production is to apply today’s various materials and technologies to seek comfortable, practical and economical, beautiful appearance. Historically respected style - decorative and personal expression - almost not considered, the design of pure pursuit of modeling value. The best modern furniture, although it can be very luxurious and expensive, shows the designer’s high sensitivity and intelligence, but has anonymity, time constraints, and general-purpose features. This furniture almost completely inhibited the self-expression of individuals, simple and innovative style, in line with the basic requirements of aesthetics and technology. Of the early modern furniture, the most interesting is the application of new technology to the traditional material - wood. German Austrian Michael, Microtech (Michacl Thonet) design of wood furniture is a song