IED – Istituto Europeo di Design Florence
Spring Semester - Furniture Design
Florence, Italy
Preparatory Program
DURATION
4 months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2027
TUITION FEES
EUR 8,300
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
About: The Spring Semester in Furniture Design in Florence immerses you in Italian furnishing design culture and manufacturing. Under professional teachers you'll experiment with ideation, learn to advance concepts, and gain practical technical skills to test, model, and present designs. The course examines case histories and analyzes cultural, morphological, and technical factors behind Italian furniture success, highlighting key quality factors in manufacturing. Lessons run Monday to Friday, morning and/or afternoon.
Career Outcomes: You'll be prepared for roles across the design and production chain: product designer, furniture designer, model maker, prototyping technician, design manager, manufacturing specialist, design consultant, furniture production coordinator.
Under the guidance of our professional teachers you experiment with ideation, learn how to take your concepts forward and acquire the practical and technical skills to test, model and present your designs professionally.
The Spring semester in Furniture design offers an insight in the Italian furnishing design culture, with a direct perspective on the manufacturing and design management process within the product supply chain.
The course offers an overview on the main case histories and analyzes the cultural, morphological and technical factors that generated the success of the Italian furniture design, highlighting the key quality factors in manufacturing.
Lessons run from Monday to Friday, morning and/or afternoon.
This education path includes a strategic combination of theoretical lectures and lab activities through team projects under the guidance of professionals of the industry.
The programme develops theoretical and practical knowledge of domestic and living spaces, focusing on technological tools, production processes and materials. A proper understanding of the company values, according to the contemporary market, is required.
Further to research on the Italian design experience, new trends in terms of materials and forms, as well as on technological innovation, you will focus on innovative materials which will be used to design furniture pieces as well as interior coating. As the second project, you will design furnishing objects for living or commercial spaces.
During this semester, you have the chance to visit the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, which is the most keenly awaited event in the world of furniture.
This is an intermediate program designed for students with at least one year of academic background or professional experience in Interior Design, Industrial Design, Furniture Design, Architecture Design. Applicants have to master representation techniques such as drawing, sketching and rendering, and visual communication skills such as computer graphics and rendering, as well as model making and verbal communication.