Abstract
Malaysia is a multiculturalism country and furniture exporting country, but the designs of furniture that reflect the sense and cultural traditions of ethnic are not seen commonly. In this paper, we focused and clarified on the changes of furniture usage in families of Malay and Chinese respectively in Malaysia. By looking at the changes of furniture used in families, furniture is not really used by Malay at first, we can say that they begun to use furniture because of the influence of Chinese society and the effect of modernization. In order to understand further about the furniture awareness of different races in Malaysia, we will have to investigate the type of furniture that each families uses and propose a new Malaysia’s style of furniture in the future.
