Identifying the Historical Product Recreation Design Value and Model by Preference and Similarity Evaluation: A Case of Chair Design

Designer stimulated by historical product can create refresh semantics appearance modern design. The aim of this article is to find out the preference relationship between modern design and its stimulation historical product by user preference and similarity evaluation to explore this design approach discipline. Fourteen famous chairs are taken as case study. Two questionnaires are carried out by 184 participants. The result shows most modern chairs win positive preference by the key preference factors of delightful, simple, beautiful, long life utilization, safe independent variable. And the armrest and backrest are significant to preserve and inherit historical chair essential main features. Based on the results, this article gives out the conclusion that historical product stimulating stimulation design is valuable and have discipline model to follow by user preference and similarity evaluation.