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Everyone asks me the same question: Oh, Parsons? What are you studying, fashion?
ARGH. No, Im not at Parsons for fashion, Im here for INTERIOR DESIGN. No one really knows how secretly great our Interior Design department really is. I didnt ask the director or the chair of the department, but instead all of these answers are from the students themselves. It is what you would call the INSIDER INFO, a view you wont get from the administrators.
Yes, many students have spent endless hours building their models and reportedly have not had much sleep in the first year. There is no such major where you do not spend time working on your projects; they all require it.
Positively. Most of them are practioners themselves and will be of great inspiriation for you in terms of professional insight and perhaps as future employers.
Internships
As previously mentioned, most of the faculty of the ID department are practitioners. Do you know what that means? If youre good (and if they like you) they are your best bet at getting your first internship! How awesome is that?!? You can intern any one of the 3 years and build up experience, skills, and your resume. The majority choose to intern junior year because of the extra time they have due to elective courses. Plus, you want to make sure you are focused on school during your senior year.
Internships
Jessica Yu
Junior, Student Council
I think internships are great for learning and experiencing the real world
out there. They give you a more technical aspect of what its really like, while at school, you have freedom to be creative.
Martina Sencakova
Senior Student Council
Cecilie Lindsay
Junior, Interior Design
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I have an internship with Skidmore Owings & Merrill in the interiors department.
I work in the materials library. One of my teachers from my sophomore year used to work there and got the job for me.
During the summer of 08 I will return to working at SOM and I might go to Paris for the
summer program there. After graduation, I dont know what I want to do quite yet but I do not want to work for a large corporation, such as SOM..
The biggest difference between sophomore & junior year is the work load. I feel like I have twice as much work. -Cecilie Lindsay
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On a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the faculty, resources and equipment?
My recent project is on luxury retail stores. It is a two-story space with walkways and a colorful interior. As with most projects, we have a specific client and this store is based on the works of Emilio Pucci. -Cecilie Lindsay
If you want...
There have been several cases where students transferred into the architecture program because they realized it interested them more than Interior Design did. Some were overwhelmed with the workload and decided to take a semester off, as in the case with a few people in Martinas senior class. If you have not transferred out or taken a semester or two off during your stay at Parsons, you will most likely be looking for employment upon graduation.
To become a certified Interior Designer, you will have completed one of the three basic requirements set up by the NCIDQ (National Council for Interior Design) by graduating from a Council for Interior Design Accreditation (formerly FIDER) accredited program. Parsons ID programs are certainly appropriately accredited. The remaining two requirements are for you to work for a NCIDQ certified designer for two years as work experience and proceed to take the NCIDQ exam in order become finally, fully certified.
My plan after graduation is to find a full time job for about two years and then I would like to continue getting a masters degree. I am not sure whether it would be design/architecture related yet but there is hope. Hopefully the two years of working everyday will help me pinpoint what it is that I am really passionate about because there are tons of things that I am interested in. -Martina Sencakova, Senior ID
I like being able to stop what I'm working on without cleaning up and picking up where I left off the next day.
-Cecilie Lindsay
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Alumni Bio
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2006. David Patrick Columbia & Jeffrey Hirsch New York Social Diary.com
Mario Buatta
Interior Designer
Luxury, Texas Style. In Houston. a 1930s House Revels in Easy Elegance. Architectural Digest July 2007. Photograph by Gordon Beall.
He completed an apprenticeship at B. Altman & Co., and also became associated with other design firms such as Elizabeth Draper, Inc. Mr. Buatta is famous for his tasteful use of chintzes, incorporating texture and pattern. His clients include Mariah Carey, Henry Ford II, Barbara Walters and Billy Joel. One of his major works includes the Blair House; the official White House guesthouse in Washington D.C.
Mario Buatta,
born in New York, attended Parsons School in Paris and studied architecture at Cooper Union.
Luxury, Texas Style. In Houston, a 1930s House Revels in Easty Elegance Architectural Digest July 2007. Photograph by Gordon Beall.