Furniture Design
BFA in Furniture Design
If you’re both creative and technical, you’ve got the makings of a successful furniture designer. Our BFA program is one of the oldest in the country and it’s internationally renowned for producing some of the world’s best furniture designers. In fact, our placement rate is through the roof, with graduates finding highly sought-after positions in major corporations, as well as intimate design houses.
Make a living AND make a difference.
Style, comfort, utility, durability—putting it all together requires designers that are part mechanical engineers, part artists, part visionaries. We owe the way our furniture looks, feels, and performs to the work of furniture designers. Their success resides in creating a design that honors its functional requirements, its user, and our aesthetic senses.
Working artists
Our furniture design grads work as furniture designers, buyers, and consultants; interior and spatial designers; ergonomists, furniture conservators and restorers; furniture builders, detailers, and engineers; mantel designers; industrial designers; CAD operators; furniture marketing reps; design instructors; and self-employed craftspeople.
Furniture Design program faculty
- Max Steven Shangle Professor, Program Chair
- Gayle L. DeBruyn Assistant Professor
- Zhi (David) Du Assistant Professor
- Deborah Kimberlin Assistant Professor
- Eric McCourt Adjunct Faculty
- Bruce E. Mulder Professor
- Vyana Slattery Professor
