Puro Mangkunegaran as the residence of the king in Surakarta, Central Java, is full of historical and cultural values. Physically, the interior of Puro Mangkunegaran, especially in the princess dressing room, is equipped with furniture in accordance with ornate activities that are designed using ornaments that have certain cultural and philosophical meanings to maintain a balance between social ethics, cultural ethics, and personal ethics with acculturation styles of Eastern and Western culture. Western culture that influences furniture design, blends with eastern culture which is still strongly maintained. To understand the functions, meanings, and symbols in this study, the researcher used a qualitative method. The results of the design implementation show that the behavior and manners of Javanese culture which contain religious, philosophical, and cultural meanings with cultural procedures in customary rules affect the design of the furniture used.
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Retno Damayanti
