This antique Chinese armoire (circa 1800) uses the following visual techniques:

• Symmetry of form 
• Regularity of design
• Unity of form
• Stasis
• Singularity
• Boldness of color
• Variation, asymmetry, and depth of painting

The Chaise Lounge, designed by Charlotte Perriand in Le Corbusier's workshop, makes use of the following visual techniques:

• Balance
• Unity
• Spontaneity
• Singularity
• Mechanicalness
• Activeness

 

Both the antique Chinese armoire and the iconic Chaise Lounge employ the visual technique of balance. 

The armoire has the visual quality of stasis, because of its solid, wooden symmetry. Its paint, which is visually bold in nature, has depth due to the layering of shades of red. The painting is asymmetrical and looks to have previously depicted a nature scene (most likely of the Floating World style).

In contrast, the Chaise lounge has the visual quality of activeness. As a “machine for relaxing” * it was designed to tilt backwards to a more reclined position. This piece simultaneously shows balance and potential motion, much like a machine ready for work, which in this case is the work of providing an ideal support for relaxing. Appropriately, this piece has a mechanical quality, which coincides with the machine aesthetic Perriand explored during this stage of her design career.

Although from different centuries and vastly different in aesthetic and character, both classic furniture pieces exhibit unity of form and singularity.

*Description used by both Perriand and Le Corbusier