IED – Istituto Europeo di Design Florence
BA in Interior and Furniture Design
Florence, Italy
BA
DURATION
3 years
LANGUAGES
English, Italian
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Oct 2026
TUITION FEES
EUR 20,400 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* enrollment fee €2,500 + course fee €17,900
Key Summary
About: The three-year Interior and Furniture Design BA at IED Firenze trains designers to match color, volume, material, surface, light and space. You’ll learn architectural layout, project management and multidisciplinary methods for residential, public, workplace, hospitality and retail spaces. It awards a Diploma Accademico di Primo Livello (BA) – EQF6 with 180 ECTS and includes Special Week.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can work as interior designers, furniture designers, space planners, retail designers or project coordinators in studios, architectural firms, manufacturers or freelance. Core skills—concept development, materials specification, lighting, CAD and project management—suit roles in residential, commercial, product design and exhibition planning.
The new-generation Interior Designer is a skilled professional always looking for ways to perfectly match multiple elements such as colours, volumes, materials, surfaces, lights and spaces. Over the three-year Interior Design programme at IED Firenze you will be provided with the tools to design innovative interiors that tell a story and create relationships between people and the surrounding environment.
Whether it is residential or public locations, workplaces, hospitality, food service or sales/retail areas, you will have the opportunity to experiment with your ideas and find new concepts of a dynamic living. You will be able to carefully select and use the best solutions for each different environment and space.
This multidisciplinary programme will give you an insight into how the market has reshaped the job of the Interior Designer. This role requires a know-how covering both architectural layout design and service project management skills, to make sure that space and people can interact with each other in the best possible way. All this becomes even more visible on the occasion of the Special Week, the event where students have the opportunity to exchange views with leading companies and professionals, thinking about projects to be developed together.
Issued Degree:
Diploma Accademico di Primo Livello, corresponding to a Bachelor of Arts Degree (BA) – EQF6 Level (European Qualification Framework).
Credits:
The course awards 180 CFA (Academic Formative Credits), corresponding to 180 ECTS (European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System).
Methodology and structure
The three-year Interior Design degree programme at IED Firenze will allow you to develop a wide range of cultural, technical and project-oriented skills. Indeed, we strongly believe that the key word that should inspire contemporary interior designers is contaminations. Now more than ever, there is a need to understand and bring together as many disciplines as possible: designers need to contaminate and be contaminated by their knowledge of art, architecture, design, sociology and marketing.
The curriculum is based on practising and using all the knowledge gained through individual or group projects developed with different partners both locally and internationally. These include agencies, firms, institutions and non-profit organizations, all of them allowing you to consistently apply your skills to the cultural and industrial system.
Our method, which is based on a balance between study and practical training combined with direct and one-to-one discussion in the classroom, will give you, across three years, the skills you need to successfully build your future and prepare for your professional career.
IED strives to build a supportive environment and collaborative relationship with partners. That’s why IED delivers the necessary tools to support prospects students in exploring opportunities, making informed decisions, and designing their future. Thanks to the innovative methodology and the professional success of IED students, the Ministries of Education and Research of the countries where IED operates directly – Italy, Spain and Brazil – have officially accredited the majority of IED Undergraduate and Master courses.
IED is an international network of education with a 100% Italian DNA. IED has been operating in the fields of training and research, in the disciplines of Design, Fashion, Visual Arts, Communication and Management of the creative industries for over 50 years. IED mission is to offer young talents a thorough training – both theoretical and practical – and hand them the ‘Design Knowledge and Mindset’ that will be the key success factor in their careers.
According to the IED philosophy interaction between cultures generates creativity, which turns into innovation: paying attention to the continuous changes happening in the ways we think, communicate, build. This is why the IED education represents an opportunity to approach a more conscious future. IED is far more than a school: thanks to its unwavering commitment to innovation, it is the melting pot where new generations of professionalism are constantly unfolded. IED forms a truly unique network of encounters, experiences, people and cultures. Our students develop a deep sense of belonging and their drive to innovate and share resources, ideas and contacts forges a tight-knit Alumni community
The global market has a growing demand for evolved Interior Designers with competences both in the architectural composition of a space and in the design of furniture elements, in order to organise and improve the relation among space, objects and people.
The three-year course in Interior and Furniture Design trains professionals able to participate in the whole design process: from the first sketches to the final project. The goal is training The course trains Interior Designers specialised in furniture, who are able both to manage and carry out a project focused on the organisation of spaces and interior decoration, with a design-oriented attitude.
Title – The First Level Academic Diploma is recognized by MIUR (Ministry for Education, University and Research) and equated with the Bachelor’s Degree issued by Universities.
IED Network offers 182 scholarships for its Undergraduate courses held in Italy and Spain.
IED Italia and Accademia di Belle Arti Aldo Galli offer 152 scholarships for courses held in Milan, Cagliari, Florence, Rome, Turin and in Accademia di Belle Arti Aldo Galli in Como. Deadline to apply May 5th 2022.
IED Spain offers 30 scholarships for courses held in Madrid, Barcelona and Bilbao.
Deadline to apply April 5th 2022
Good luck.
Career opportunities - Interior Designer, Furniture Designer, Product Designer, Concept Designer, Materials, Components and Technical Devices Researcher.
The Interior Design programme at IED Firenze is definitely your best option if you want to become a creative professional. For those like you who are inspired by curiosity and want to develop practical project design skills: that's what it takes to create successful solutions focused on human emotions and needs.
This programme is designed for anyone who wants to investigate the areas between people and space making full use of such elements as lights, furniture, colours, fabrics and materials, no matter what their scientific background might be.
Future career opportunities include the classic role of an Interior Designer, but also other positions such as Retail Designer, Service Designer, Exhibit Designer, Designer for Hospitality and Set Designer.