Abstract:

Today, while new user typology wants to live the sense of belonging in spatial organization also wants to create awareness in interior and wants to draw away uniformity. At this point as it’s not supposed for interior designers to handle furniture as a product that solely provides the functionality and esthetic conditions for place, and also prelection of furniture design courses isolated from interior design and project design courses, positions the furniture only as a functional/esthetic compliment item of interior. However, furniture is the fundamental interior design partner at the point of reading cultural / social /psychological/economic design codes at the interior design. But when we observe the departments of interior design at the bachelor degree in Turkey, it’s identified that furniture design and manufacturing method courses are given in a few departments. At the same time when we observe these departments, it’s also identified that the courses are not enough sufficient in both course hours terms and located as a focal point on the basis of 4 years education program

It is also inside of ascertainments that the terms of production-material-detail analysis of furniture design aren’t frequently examined in 1/1 scale in interior design problem analysis at interior design project courses. We can also see that within the scope of the furniture design classes which take place in education programs, we can see associating furniture with interior design is remains incapable, it’s mainly focus on an education conception which is devoted to designing furniture as only industrial/an artistic product/ sculpture apart from furniture’s interior design problem.

In this study, within the scope of search on handling and perception of furniture design in interior design education, it’s aimed that the place/position of furniture design is came up for discussion at the interior design project courses.

Keywords:

Furniture design courses, interior design, education.