黄花梨是明式家具中被大量使用的材料,因为质地坚实,肌理细腻,且蕴含香馨,似乎天生就是为了成就经典家具而出现在这个世界上的。
它的纹理写意而陆离,似出自上苍的神工鬼斧,且不柴、不涩;它的制成品极富文人意趣,或接近天人合一,却富丽、奢华。于是,它将建筑内饰、起居用具、室内陈设与文玩杂件最终集合为一种独特的文化现象。明清之际,它借助于皇室与士绅阶层的审美意趣,借助于成熟的工艺技巧和工商业的高度发育而大行天下,为古典家具树立起一座高耸的觇标。
这就是黄花梨,一种产自中国海南岛“黎峒”的珍稀木材,现代植物学的定名叫做“降香黄檀”。这就是黄花梨,一种被注入了无数人文关注和由它所成就的特殊的文化氛围。
Huanghuali is a kind of material been widly used in Ming-style furniture for its solid character, delicate texture and fragrant. It seems to be born for the success of classic furniture in the world. With beautiful nature veins, it can be made into some products very charming or magnificent. Finally, it became to a particular culture, which is the combination of architechture inside decoration, daily life commodity, indoor furnishing and stationary. In the period of Ming and Qing dynasty, it was so popular that became to a milestone of the classic furnitures by means of mature handcraft technique, highly developing industry and commerce, as well as the royal and gentry aesthetic charm. That’s Huanghuali, a treasure wood originate in “Litong” of Hainan Iland of China, with a modern botanical name as “Dalbergia odorifera”. That’s Huanghuali, a special culture atmosphere full of human attention.