Innovative design of the red stoneware tea set based on aesthetic character-istics of Taihu Stone in Suzhou garden
The aesthetic characteristics of Taihu stones in Suzhou gardens were summarized and applied to the modern innovative design of the red stoneware tea set.The literature research and fieldwork were used to collect data on the Taihu stone in Suzhou gardens,to explore the artistic characteristics of Taihu stone in the Suzhou garden from three aspects:shape,color,and meaning.The analysis results were used to extract ele-ments from the image of the Taihu stone in the Suzhou garden based on modern bionic design techniques,redesign the extracted elemental pat-terns through pattern enhancement,and applied them to the design of red stoneware.It was concluded that the image of the Taihu stone in the Su-zhou garden had the artistic characteristics of exciting and dynamic form,elegant and simple color,and the meaning of a mirror.The creative attri-butes of the Taihu stone were refined through bionic design and then applied to the modern design of the red stoneware tea set,which could give a new cultural connotation to the current configuration of the red stoneware tea set.It provided a theoretical reference for the contemporary devel-opment of traditional red stoneware techniques.