Certificate - Italian Interior and Furniture Design
- 1 year
- Duration
- 14,000 EUR
- Price
- Oct 2025
- Start
- May 2025
- Deadline
- Certificate
- Degree
- Campus
- Format
- Florence / Italy
- Location
Program description
The goal of interior design is to improve the quality of life of a building's residents by fostering a healthy, safe, and comfortable interior environment.
Interior design is a multifaceted profession that aims to satisfy the client's needs and resources in order to create an interior space that satisfies the project goals. This is accomplished through a systematic and coordinated methodology that includes research, analysis, and the integration of knowledge into the creative process.
The goal of the Academic Year in Interior and Furniture Design is to produce designers with a concentration on furniture who can not only design beautiful pieces but also oversee the entirety of a project devoted to the interior design and layout of a building. The curriculum focuses on helping students develop an appreciation for design, a personal expressive language, and a multidisciplinary culture that values both theory and practice.
Program structure
Introduction to Design
The course moves forward and teaches you how to represent and distribute the spaces of a house with the use of the 2D software
- History of Design 1
- Technical Drawing
- Modeling Techniques 1
- Materials Typology 1
- Graphic Design
- Design 1
- Introduction to Cultural Marketing
Interior Design: Focus on Retail and Commercial Spaces
This Fall Semester's course offerings provide a design-oriented perspective on interior spaces and interior decoration in a variety of business contexts, with an emphasis on customers' wants and needs, society at large, and sustainable design's practical application.
- Materials Typology 2
- Drawing Techniques and Technologies
- History of Contemporary Architecture 1
- Design 2
- Sociology of Culture
- 3D Computer Model-Making Techniques
Furniture Design
This Spring Semester course provides a window into the manufacturing and design management process within the product supply chain from the perspective of the Italian furnishing design culture.
- Modeling Techniques 2
- Design 2
- Product Design
- 3D Computer Model – Making Techniques
- History of Design 2
- Design Management
Price
Fee for one semesters is 14000.00 EUR for international students
Requirements for applicants
In order to be eligible for admission to a IED Foundation Course leading to a Certificate awarded by the Istituto Europeo di Design (IED) applicants must:
- Hold an Upper Secondary School Diploma;
- Be 18 years old by the end of the year in which the course starts*;
- You must have a upper intermediate level of English, corresponding to level 5.5 IELTS, in order to enter in the course. To prove the necessary language proficiency you have to present a language certificate issued by authorised bodies or undergo the IED online language assessment test.
*If a student is under 18 years old when they make their application, the people with parental authority must submit an identity document and countersign all documents and a specific form provided by IED.
About the university
Since 1966, we have been the largest Higher Education Network in the creative area to keep both a worldwide perspective and a strongly Italian cultural matrix.
Our educational strategy has evolved over time, but at its core remains the same: we mix theoretical study with hands-on experience and the expertise of working experts. One of the things we emphasize in our classes is always thinking ahead, in the here and now. We are a diverse, multidisciplinary institution that views design as a tool for social transformation.
Among the many international academic networks in which we participate are Cumulus, Elia, and WDO, just to name a few.
Campuses
In the 1970s and 1980s, we expanded to Rome (1973), Cagliari (1984), and Turin (1989) in Italy.
Beginning in 1994 with the Madrid campus and continuing on to Barcelona in 2002, Spain's modern era began in the 1990s.
The Group also spread internationally, establishing a presence in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 2005, and then in Venice, Italy, in 2007, Florence, Italy, in 2009, and Como, Italy, in 2009, with the acquisition of the Aldo Galli Academy of Fine Arts. The Group expanded its footprint in Brazil in 2014 by renovating the Cassino da Urca and opening a campus in Rio de Janeiro; in 2020, the Group will expand its presence in Spain by purchasing the Centro Superior de Diseo Kunsthal in Bilbao.
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