Cabriole legs throughout the history of furniture

Year 2023, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 289 - 304, 29.12.2023

Alım Selin Mutdoğan Gülçin Cankız Elibol

https://doi.org/10.33725/mamad.1359471

Abstract

In its simplest definition, furniture can be defined as equipment made of various materials that enable users to perform their sitting, lying, eating, storage, working, and similar actions in a comfortable, efficient, and healthy way. Looking at the documented history of furniture, it is seen that the history of stone and earth-based fixed equipment dates back to 6500 BC, but it can be said that furniture in its current sense has a history of roughly 4 thousand to 4 thousand five hundred years. In this study, the emergence of the Cabriole leg, which is an important element of the history of furniture in the classical period, is investigated together with its formal and semantic features; the changes in these two elements are analyzed and the impact of the Cabriole leg extending to the present day is tried to be conveyed. The study is qualitative research and is based on document scanning, and analysis. Documents reflecting the historical process were scanned and analyzed in the form of information and visual documents; the current situation was determined through the analysis and future implications for this indispensable element of furniture design history were presented. It is envisaged that the study will benefit researchers, and designers, especially in terms of contributing to the literature in the field of furniture history and raising awareness about the form and content of historical elements.

Keywords

Furniture, History of Furniture, Cabriole Leg, Furniture Design

Kabriyal ayağın mobilya tarihindeki yeri

Abstract

Mobilya en yalın tanımıyla, kullanıcıların oturma, yatma, yemek yeme, depolama, çalışma ve benzeri eylemlerini rahat, verimli ve sağlıklı şekilde yerine getirebilmelerini sağlayan, çeşitli malzemelerden üretilmiş donatılardır. Mobilyanın belgeli tarihine bakıldığında, taş ve toprak bazlı sabit donatıların tarihinin MÖ 6500’lü yıllara kadar dayandığı görülmekle birlikte, günümüzdeki anlamıyla mobilyanın, kabaca 4 000 ila 4 500 yıllık bir geçmişinin olduğunu ifade etmek mümkündür. Bu çalışmada, klasik dönem mobilya tarihinin önemli bir öğesi olan Kabriyal ayağın tarihsel süreçte ortaya çıkışı, biçimsel ve anlamsal özellikleri ile birlikte araştırılmış; bu iki unsurda yaşanan değişiklikler analiz edilmiş ve Kabriyal ayağın, günümüze kadar uzanan etkisi aktarılmaya çalışılmıştır. Çalışma, nitel bir araştırmadır ve doküman taraması ve analizi üzerine kurulmuştur. Tarihsel süreci yansıtan dokümanlar, bilgi ve görsel belge şeklinde taranarak analiz edilmiş; yapılan analizler üzerinden mevcut durum tespiti yapılarak ve mobilya tasarımı tarihinin bu vazgeçilmez öğesine yönelik gelecek çıkarımları sunulmuştur. Çalışmanın, özellikle mobilya tarihi alanına yönelik literatüre katkı sağlaması ve tarihsel öğelerin biçim ve içeriklerinin bir arada ele alınması konusundaki farkındalığın artırılması yönünden, araştırmacılara ve tasarımcılara fayda sağlaması öngörülmektedir.

Keywords

Mobilya, Mobilya Tarihi, Tasarım, Mobilya Tasarımı, Kabriyal Ayak

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