Furniture future

"What designers did was not to design a chair, a lamp or a desk in the traditional sense. They were boundless in creativity, and they tried to incorporate the developments in technology and materials into it. Their work forged innovative aesthetic values and ideas about the changing relationship between humankind and the environment."

The exhibition also shows how designers greatly changed people's lifestyles, just like what the late Italian designer Ettore Sottsass said, "I don't think I invented anything; I proposed a way of being."

Su Dan, deputy director of Tsinghua University Art Museum, says the exhibition is a collection of works showcasing the ideas of great people and technical inventions, how they brilliantly put ideas and inventions into practice, and how people seized opportunities with ideals, intelligence and willpower in an animated part of history.