This paper aims to explore the strategy of traditional inheritance and innovative application in furniture design. Traditional cultural elements are closely connected with people's life, and their influence on furniture design and integrated application in the process of inheritance and development provide a broad space for designers' thinking, and also contribute to the diversification of design ideas. In this paper, according to the realistic background basis, in combination with traditional culture to give the support and integration of the two current situation of development of furniture, the concrete application principles are analyzed, and put forward three application directions of reasonable extraction, conforming to the traditional and catering to the aesthetic, then from the modern furniture design details such as the structure shape, color, connotations collision of traditional culture and modern thought and practice, this paper focus on the fusion of each other and discusses the method of theory with practice. In conclusion, the integration and development of traditional cultural elements and modern furniture further enriches the cultural connotation and beautiful implication of furniture, which not only meets the current aesthetic requirements of people, but also promotes the realistic integration and development of traditional and modern furniture, all of which have extremely far-reaching practical significance.