Types of Decorative Design

1. Types of Decorative Design • Naturalistic • Taken from nature. Ex. Plants, flowers, baskets. • It is how it actually appears. • Conventional • Slightly stylized. You know what it is, but it has been changed slightly. • Geometric • Use geometric shapes. These shapes make plaids, stripes, checks, polka dots. • Abstract • Unrecognizeable. Highly stylized.

2. Naturalistic Yen explains that the furniture will eventually break down and decompose as the mushrooms take hold. Not exactly sustainable furniture, but certainly “green” in its ability to decompose. If termites are getting boring, you might try out mushroom furniture.

3. Naturalistic and abstract Sometimes art can be allowed to trump function, or at least more subtly integrated with the pragmatic side of furniture design. This is one such table by Link Studios. The silhouette of a tree is visible at one angle, extruded from the surface to create the support structure.

5. Naturalistic

7. Stylized

8. Conventional or stylized

9. Conventional or stylized

12. Abstract

13. Geometric