The interior design course coach the students to the Italian sensibility to beauty. We will focus on the Italian Store Design and Florence home-based brands like Gucci, Salvatore Ferragamo, Roberto Cavalli and Emilio Pucci.

The interior design course is an overview in the Italian Store Design developed within three levels of depth:

– basic (no requirements)

– medium (skills need to be demonstrated)

– pro (skills need to be demonstrated)

Depending by the level, students will learn the historical aspects of the Italian furniture and Fashion brands, manual drawing, lights and colors, materials study, 2D/3D modelling, touching in each module a different Interior Design theme.

Here you have the main subjects divided by module:

The official SYLLABUS will be issued once you confirm your enrollment. A SYLLABUS is a detailed document revealing your daily activity.

Students will merge together the Italian retail and the fashion design to propose nice Interior Design solutions at the end of each month.

Together with the theoretical aspects they will visit the brand stores in Florence to understand the philosophy and the creative aspects to develop a personal Interior Design sensibility.

Live and work in a harmonious location make the real difference for a high level senses experience. We all know how important is to create customization in a room or a specific space. It will be possible for our students to realize their ideas including if they want to focus on a personal project.

Essential themes we will work on are light, colors, furniture design and natural shapes.

Students will be able to propose store design solutions applied to specific Italian fashion brands combining materials with colors and forms to create spaces able to follow brand’s philosophy.

They will be inspired through our external visits to the Gucci’s Museum, Salavatore Ferragamo’s Museum, Florence Fashion Stores tour and more.

The course is held in english language and it’s open to all that have got an interest in the Interior Design, Fashion and the Italian culture.

Florence Design School was founded by an entrepreneurial project of the founding members of the LABA, a reality in constant and progressive growth from fifteen years in Florence. Florence Design School uses the same laboratories and equipment supplied to three-year degree courses students of LABA (Bachelor’s degree). Florence Design School professors are skilled teachers at LABA (en.laba.biz)

ACCOMMODATION ASSISTANCE

We can facilitate you in finding the best accommodation depending on your needs. We have a list of accomodation in a private page that we will send you after your apply. Here you have a sample of accommodation that we can provide.

A basic Italian language course is included with all the studies. A nice and funny way to bring back home a little piece of Italy.

An hour lesson will be taken every day after course’s end for all the students. All together, in order to mix your different interests.We will start learning basic words, sentences, questions. That ones you could use in your stay in Florence, but we will upgrade talking about current events in Design, Fashion, Photography and following the most important social accounts that can tell us what to do or can help us finding out events in Florence and Tuscany.

We will comment with critical method news and contemporary italian designers combining curiosity and your personal willing. In a relaxing mood trying to let go the stress of the day.

It is UP to you to take this course, if you will do it you will receive a specific certificate.

FAC SIMILE CERTIFICATE

MODULE BASIC

Students completing this course will:
– Have developed technical proficiency in drawing spaces and furnitures sketches. From a box to a real space.
– Develop a greater facility understanding the language of interior design.
– Further develop each student’s unique personal style.
– Creating a living space with specific owner’s needs.
– Gain knowledge to a wide variety of web sites and italian interior design communities in Florence.

MODULE MEDIUM

Students completing this course will:

– Have developed good technical proficiency in drawing spaces and furnitures sketches.
– Gain knowledge about trend’s evolution in italian store design.
– Have developed technical proficiency in the creative process.
– Develop a greater facility in drawing with sketchup software.
– Further develop a personal project starting from a character.
– Improve their capability to creatively interpret wishes and offering the right solutions.

MODULE PRO

Students completing this course will:

– Have developed excellent technical proficiency in drawing spaces and furnitures sketches.
– Develop proficiency in editing a brand strategy and a communication plan.
– Recognize the needs for a custumer in therms of experience.
– Gain the technical issues of colors and light.
– Create a personal project tracking a storyboard.
– Develop a greater understanding about how to show and communicate your project in public.

Price includes: Registration fee, Assistance in finding lodging, Value added tax (VAT), Certificates & Diplomas

The official SYLLABUS will be issued once you confirm your enrollment.

During the last day of courses the school will organize an internal show with all student artworks. At the end of each course students will be issued with an attendance certificate in a ceremony.