What is contemporary furniture? It’s not what you see when you shop in furniture stores. The world of contemporary furniture design is much more sophisticated, interesting and advanced, communicating the zeitgeist and values of our time. In this program, you will meet those whose furniture standd at the forefront of the world of design. You’ll meet designers who freeze metals, grow furniture on trees, utilize a broad spectrum of typologies and methods, and translate the most basic and traditional crafts into contemporary expressions. They have established research-based studios and their work has come to shape the discipline of design today. You cannot understand the present without knowing the past and therefore, you will also learn chapters in the history of furniture, meeting curators, historians, and writers who have devoted their careers to the study and research of furniture design of the past century – Carlo Mollino, Frank Lloyd Wright, Carla Porset, and Gianfranco Frattini.