The 56th China International Furniture Fair (Shanghai)
September 9-12, 2025

Shanghai Office Furniture Expo | How to choose office furniture?

2025-05-15 16:22:22

How to choose a good conference table, this article will give you some tips, of course, if you want to know more, welcome to our Shanghai Office Furniture Expo.

 



1.What are the office furniture?

 

(1) Tables: reception desk, staff tables, large and medium-sized desk, conference table, bar, negotiation table, casual dining table, lift table, coffee table, etc.

(2) Chairs: staff chairs, large and small classroom chairs, conference chairs, bar chairs, negotiation chairs, casual dining chairs, etc.

(3) Cabinets: large and small back cabinets, file cabinets, file cabinets, intensive shelves, cabinets, safes, cabinets, reading cabinets, lockers, etc.

(4) Sofa: single sofa, multi-person sofa

(5) Other: screen partition.

 

 

2.Office furniture materials

 

(1) Solid wood furniture: the use of raw wood as a material for production, sanding, painting and other processes. The material is exquisite, durable.

(2) Plate furniture: plate molding, stable performance is not easy to deform, processing and transportation are more convenient.

(3) Upholstered furniture: upholstered furniture mainly refers to the sponge, fabric-based furniture.

(4) Rattan furniture: light and generous, those fine interwoven rattan rustic, refreshing.

(5) Metal furniture: very personalized style, rich color choices, variety, with folding function, quite beautiful value, goods at a good price.

(6) Steel wood furniture: simple geometric structure, simple steel and wood combinations and simple color performance, expressing the steel wood furniture on the style of simplicity.

(7) Glass furniture: with its unique crystal clear, fresh and bright features and popular.

(8) Marble furniture: the surface of the crystal moist, warm and graceful texture, beautiful pattern texture, and has no fear of dirty, no fear of hot and other advantages, loved by consumers.

(9) Ceramic furniture: ceramic materials are generally high hardness, but poor plasticity. In addition to the use of eating utensils, decoration, in the development of science and technology also plays an important role.

 

 

3.Office furniture style

 

(1) Modern style: modern style is a more popular style, the pursuit of fashion and trends, pay great attention to the layout of the interior space and the use of the perfect combination of functions.

(2) European classical style: European classical furniture is very rich in cultural connotation, suitable for European classical style of decoration.

(3) American style: atmospheric simplicity, casual lines but focus on clean and dry.

(4) Chinese classical style: graceful and elegant, exquisite craftsmanship, fascinating. Not only beautiful and generous, but also practical and strong!

(5) Neoclassical style: smooth lines, exquisite carvings. Both nostalgia and fashionable style image, not only by the middle-aged and elderly people like, even a young people also began to love it.

 

 

4. How to choose

 

(1) Surface quality: when buying the main surface of the plate to see whether there are scratches, indentations, bubbles, peeling and glue marks and other defects; wood grain pattern is natural and smooth, do not have the feeling of artificial artifacts; for symmetrical furniture, pay more attention to the plate color, grain consistency and harmony of the tonality of the symmetrical plate, so that people feel as if it is from a piece of material.

(2) Production quality: production quality mainly depends on the quality of cutting and sawing, edge, surface decoration quality and board port quality. Generally speaking, the cutting technology of the plate within 0.01 mm per meter, to meet the precision requirements of the plate after cutting and sawing the edge of the contour is flat, good angle, made of furniture will not be tilted phenomenon of the plate. Edge, face decoration mainly to see whether the decorative parts on the glue is uniform, door, drawer slit whether the gap is too large, the general requirements between 1mm ~ 2mm, door and drawer opening push and pull whether flexible and free.

(3) Hardware: In furniture, the value of hardware fittings accounted for 5%, but the running comfort is 85%, enough to show that hardware fittings play a powerful function in home life. Among them, hinges and slides have the highest frequency of use in life, and thus appear more important. Damping technology is widely used in the field of hinges and slides.

(4) Formaldehyde emission: formaldehyde, also known as formalin, is a toxic substance harmful to human health. Consumers who buy, open the door and drawers, can smell a stimulating odor, causing tears in the eyes or cause coughing and other conditions, it shows that the formaldehyde emission in the furniture exceeds the standard requirements, should not buy this type of furniture. Otherwise, the use of the process, especially in the use of air conditioning, indoor air will contain formaldehyde, affecting health.

 

 

5. Consideration of other factors

 

(1) Tailor-made

Purchase should be measured before the size of my office and the size of the area, and then based on the company's corporate culture, methods of operation and business needs, conceptualization of the indoor plane structure, feng shui format, etc., so that the size of the furniture and the office area, the height of the coincidence, to prevent the office furniture cloth building failed to meet the needs.

 

(2) Folding desk rather than a lack of

Office furniture is not consumables, in the purchase should be confronted with the “better to lack than to abundance” criterion, not less than the office stuffed full, according to the use of the demand for additional purchases, and office furniture placed in the area of the building should not be more than the indoor area of the general 50% of the best.

 

(3) Consolidation and durability

Requirements for high quality, veritable, robust and reliable. If the pure wood furniture, pay attention to its moisture content is not less than 12%, the best choice of mortise and tenon structure rather than nail gun spelling. Office furniture must be straight, the diagonal must be consistent, the floor to be smooth, hardware components should be strong, and doors and drawers should be opened sensitive. Leather office furniture appearance must be flat, no bubbles, no cracks, stitching and so on.

 

(4) Style consistency

Style, style and color should be consistent and harmonious, while in the details of the transformation. Office furniture selection should have to pay attention to the “color and taste”, must be common with the company's civilization and business nature.

 

The office furniture generally have five shades: black, gray, brown, dark red and blue. Usually, different kinds of gray for the desk; black, brown for the boss chair and parlor tables and chairs; blue and dark red for office chairs. Because, although the blue is elegant, not lose brightness; red although solemn, not lack of lively; black, brown has always given people a sense of gravity, with them decorated conference room, will prompt you to focus on thinking Generally speaking, the office color configuration in accordance with the “big jump, small harmony” principle.

 

Each color has its own language, it will convey a certain psychological message to your colleagues and customers. For example, black gives people a sense of loneliness, but at the same time there is a kind of noble and dignified; brown makes people feel old and old-fashioned, but different concentrations of brown not only without the obscurity of the old, will also produce a few points of elegance; red and pink is too flamboyant, if the quiet and cold colors with the tone, can show a young and lively; white and yellow is too pure, if the warm colors and happy to hand in hand, easy to reveal their own elegance. Further, light purple with sky blue to give people a sense of serenity; magenta with sapphire blue to make people feel bright; sauce purple with moon white is elegant; pink with this white to convey the youthfulness; dark brown with light yellow can make you look more mature; light gray with black ink looks solemn; red with black can attract each other's eyes; dark green with the earth yellow with the most natural; aquamarine with light blue is a feeling of solidity; as for the bright yellow with the black ink, it can give The bright yellow with ink black can give people the beauty of jumping.

 

(5) Reserve Space

Longing for change is the modern people often have to manipulate the psychological, and office placement and furniture purchase is also so. An office decorated again beautiful, luxurious, but with the passage of time, this sense of novelty and beauty will be weakened. So the office furniture is not placed too full, to adjust the position of the furniture to leave room, it is recommended to choose the office furniture can be adjusted to facilitate the future adjustment of space. It is recommended to choose the office furniture that can be adjusted by movement, in order to facilitate the space for future adjustments.

 

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