Graduate Furniture Programs US/Abroad

Design Discussions students and schools
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Hi everyone,

I’m a senior at Carnegie Mellon’s ID program and have enjoyed my time here very much. I’ve discovered (after a summer in Denmark at school there) that furniture is my one love. I’m looking to work or intern after school for a bit, but I’d like to gather some information on graduate furniture programs.

RISD seems to have a great program and of course it’s a great design school to boot. I’d also look at doing a second undergrad specifically in furniture at a school abroad… such as Denmark’s Design school (http://www.dkds.dk/) or perhaps T/U Eindhoven. What about other schools?


Any ideas or input?


Henry

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Do you want to do commercial furniture for production, or craft furniture (one offs)?

^md

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commercial furniture for production interests me more, it would be great to work on furniture in a studio environment with other people.

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RISD’s program is a craft, gallery-oriented one, as implied by YO.
Kendall would be a good production oriented school, by contrast.

However, if what you want to do is a Droogish inspired limited production furniture design career: either you got the chops or you dont. CMU taught you all the critical thinking, shop skills and creativity you need to get started.

Think about taking the $100K it’d cost to live in Providence attnding RISD for two years - and build as much work as you can and try to get it produced or at least published.