부산대학교 도서관

The purpose of this study is to investigate chair design which forms product family. In case of chair design, a series of product family in which various variables are applied to diverse forms would appear. A concept of product family was adopted in this kind of product group. This study paid attention to new diverse variables which have emerged within a single frame titled ‘product family’ and social phenomena which influence these variables. In addition, they were analyzed based on chair design cases. For this, literature review and case study & analysis were conducted. This study is structured as follows; In chapter 2, a theoretical review on product family was performed. In chapter 3, types of product family in design were described. In chapters 4 and 5, two artists and their chairs were explained. In chapter 6, two chairs were comparatively analyzed, and conclusion was given. This study attempted to comparatively analyze chairs which revealed changes and differences even under the same concept of ‘product family’. For a case study, therefore, ‘7 Chair’ by Arne Jacobsen (1902-1971) and ‘Kokon Chair’ by Jurgen Bey were selected. Even though they were analyzed from the same perspective as ‘product family’, the characteristics of two chairs were differentiated. As a result, the product family formation method in chair design was compared trough analysis on the two cases.