The establishment of a boutique workshop has been a plan for a long time.
The boutique workshop produces traditional Chinese furniture, while the general workshop produces Chinese furniture.
They are all Chinese-style furniture, one is traditional Chinese style and the other is Chinese style, but they are actually different.
The structure of Chinese furniture is the same as that of traditional Chinese furniture. They are both mortise and tenon structures, without a single nail, and are polished and waxed.
The difference is, first, the material. Chinese furniture is made of pine wood. The next step may be to upgrade to walnut wood.
Traditional Chinese furniture is all made of mahogany.
Another difference is the craftsmanship. The structure of Chinese-style furniture is as simple as possible, without too many patterns, and sometimes it is mainly simple.
Traditional Chinese furniture uses a large number of hollow carvings, negative and positive carvings, and also uses gilt and silver inlay technology to depict various pictures and texts.
The entire furniture looks dignified, high-profile and luxurious, yet without losing its cultural essence.
A simpler and clearer explanation is that Chinese furniture is an affordable luxury brand that ordinary people can afford.
Traditional Chinese furniture is a top luxury brand and a work of art. If your family doesn’t have tens of millions, you can’t afford it.
I've wanted to set it up for a long time, but the factory has just merged and there are so many problems.
Coupled with the continued training of reserve craftsmen, once a large number of carpenters with superb craftsmanship are recruited, it will inevitably affect the training of carpenter apprentices.
Carpenter apprentices can only be trained in ordinary workshops. No matter how extravagant Zhang Junping is, he is reluctant to use redwood to train carpenter apprentices.
There is another reason, that is, the workshop director of the boutique workshop has been having difficulty giving birth.
Some people say that scholars despise each other. In fact, although craftsmen do not despise each other, they are also dissatisfied with each other.
Why are you the workshop director? Are you more skilled than me?
But the person with the best skills may not be qualified for the position of workshop director.
Technology does not equal management.
The competition held by Zhang Junping was intended to select high-quality workshop directors.
It just wasn't announced to the outside world.
However, considering that he would participate in the first Xiangjiang International Handicraft Fair, Zhang Junping could only set up a boutique workshop in advance.
He himself serves as the workshop director.
After walking around the workshop, Zhang Junping came to the exhibition hall again.
The furniture displayed here is all recovered furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
After looking at Ming and Qing furniture in the exhibition hall and feeling the spirit and wisdom of ancient craftsmen, Zhang Junping went to the basement.
The basement is a warehouse. After screening, the collected furniture, which is of high value, relatively complete, and small and incomplete, is sent here.
In the basement, I played with antique furniture for a while and repaired an armchair with missing legs. It was already lunch time.
Zhang Junping couldn't help but lament that there was not enough time.
There are so many things he wants to do, but the time is too short and not enough.
There was a room of furniture here that needed repairs. According to his idea, he would personally repair all the valuable ancient furniture from the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
I took the opportunity to hone my skills, but I simply didn’t have the time.
After packing his things, Zhang Junping secretly made up his mind that no matter how busy he was, he would spare an hour or two to come here to repair furniture.
At noon, we had something to eat in the cafeteria.
In the afternoon, Zhang Junping locked himself in the studio and was busy doing homework.
I'm going to the old lady's house in the evening, and I haven't finished my homework yet.
Zhang Junping went to the old lady's graduate school and studied sculpture.
Sculpture, although there are sculptures, is more of a sculpture.
Making clay sculptures is different from making sculptures.
If you stop in the middle of carving, although it will affect your train of thought, you can still catch up on your train of thought as long as you calm down.
Clay sculpture is not possible. You can do the skeleton part separately. It doesn't matter if you do it a few days apart.
But the skin part is not good, it must be done in one go.
Otherwise, once the soil dries, obvious stubble will appear, destroying the artistic beauty.
Zhang Junping spent an entire afternoon making a bust of David.
Michelangelo's David may be a curse that all art students cannot escape.
Starting from sketching, what I drew was David, and then I moved on to oil painting. Art students who learn oil painting still have to draw David.
As an art student studying sculpture, it is also indispensable to make several statues of David, such as David's head, David's bust, and David's full body.
Basically all art students have dealt with these types of Davids.
Zhang Junping is not exempt from the vulgarity. He doesn't have to go to class, but he has to do the homework assigned by the old lady.
In the evening, when the clay sculpture was almost done, Zhang Junping carefully picked up the base and left the studio.
Naturally, I couldn't ride a bike while I was holding David in my arms. I could only enjoy the treatment of a factory manager and asked for a jeep from the car class.
Carefully put David into the passenger seat.
It was the first time since my brother was reborn to drive a car. Unexpectedly, it was David sitting in the passenger seat.
If David knew anything, he should be honored.
After all, it is such a great honor to be the first to be a future great artist and future great master.
We drove forward at a fast pace and arrived at Dongmi City Hutong.
"Old lady, I brought David to see you!" Zhang Junping walked into the courtyard with David in his arms and shouted loudly.
"Who did you bring here?" The old lady was in the study. She didn't hear Zhang Junping's words clearly, so she came out wearing glasses and asked.
"David! Look how David I am? Am I David enough?" Zhang Junping said with a smile.
"You brat! Is this the David you made?" The old lady glanced at the bust of David held in Zhang Junping's hand, angrily hit Zhang Junping on the head, and scolded with a smile: "I want you to make a big sculpture."
David, where's David's bravery, strength, and confidence? You gave me the whole Pride and Prejudice?"
"Old lady, what I call innovation is the combination of art and reality.
Isn't this how Western countries treat China? They are full of arrogance and prejudice." Zhang Junping said seriously.
"So, we must strengthen ourselves. Your generation has a very heavy task. Whether our country can stand up again and trample the arrogance and prejudice of Western countries under its feet depends on you." The old lady also put away her smile and looked at
The David of Pride and Prejudice sculpted by Zhang Junping said solemnly.
No one is more difficult to understand than the old lady, the arrogance and prejudice of Westerners towards Chinese people.
She has traveled to various Western countries and is used to seeing the arrogance and prejudice hidden under the so-called gentlemanly demeanor of Westerners.
It was precisely because of this feeling that the old lady gave up the superior life in Western countries and returned to China alone after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
I just hope that I can contribute to the prosperity of the country and the rejuvenation of the nation.
"Don't worry, old lady, this day will come! We will eventually break the arrogance and prejudice of Western countries.
China will definitely make the whole world tremble and look up to it." Zhang Junping nodded vigorously and said.
"Go back and put this sculpture in the school exhibition hall.
Let everyone see it!
I hope I can wake up some people." The old lady said happily but seriously.
"Old lady, don't worry about this. You can never wake up someone who pretends to be asleep.
If those people want to leave, just let them leave!
Without them, the country will still prosper and no one can stop it!"