PROGRESS AND BACKGROUND OF WOODEN FURNITURE MANUFACTURERS' SEMI-MADE-TO-ORDER FURNITURE IN POSTWAR JAPAN
Аннотация
Unit Furniture (early 1960's onward) together with Pre-form Furniture (mid 60's onward) and Easy-order Table (early 80's onward) was called Semi-made-to-order Furniture, and it aimed at total interior coordination. Among the Semi-made-to-order Furniture, there are common factors to decide design of wooden furniture. They are forms, surface materials, colors, fabrics, and fittings. Standardized Furniture proceeded to Ready-made Furniture and then to the Semi-made-to-order Furniture in order to meet various demands from consumers. Architectural Ergonomics laid a basis to think furniture more systematically. As prefabricated houses spread over postwar Japan, an idea of considering furniture, one of interior elements, as a part of the prefabricated houses became popular. Rise of demand for total interior coordination and appearing of interior coordinators matured the Semi-made-to-order Furniture. However, Japanese wooden furniture manufacturer's Semi-made-to-order Furniture was relatively short life. One of the reasons was a management issue about appropriateness between item numbers and manufacturing / retailing cost. Another was caused by peculiarity of Japanese prefabricated house manufacturing system, which is‘Closed System including Open System.’