🎨Arts
Furniture Designer
Designs and creates furniture
Develops sketches and structural designs for furniture, balancing comfort, function and aesthetics.
What they do
- ▹Sketches furniture designs based on a client's needs
- ▹Develops the construction and selects wood, metal or upholstery fabric
- ▹Creates 3D models and drawings for production
- ▹Coordinates the design with the workshop and reviews the first sample
Skills you need
- ▹Artistic taste and spatial thinking
- ▹3D modeling skills (SketchUp, 3ds Max and similar)
- ▹Knowledge of wood, metal and upholstery materials
- ▹Understanding of joinery and furniture manufacturing
- ▹Practical thinking and the ability to balance looks against cost
Focus on these subjects at school
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Where they work
- ▹Furniture factories and joinery workshops
- ▹Interior design studios
- ▹Construction and renovation companies
- ▹A small workshop of one's own
Pros
- + A visible, long-lasting result of the work
- + Demand from furniture workshops, interior design studios and private renovation clients
Challenges
- − Must design within what local production can actually make, not just aesthetics
- − Competition from cheap ready-made and imported furniture
Programs that lead to this profession
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