Preparing aspiring designers by providing them with a firm foundation in the critical skills and techniques needed to enter the professional design world.
The semester program consists of a 4-month session either during the fall or spring semester.
Christophe Salade was awarded First Prize at the “Salon du Bois” for the concept and design of wooden lamps in 1985. M.A. in Product Design from UCLA. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Interior Design with specialization in Product Design. Trained at the Atelier Charpentier and Atelier Saint Merri, Paris. Professor of Construction & Theory, Technical Drawing, Product Design, Perspective, Color, Drawing & Composition.
Dr Agnès Rannou is an art historian with a Ph.D in Aesthetics (Edward Hopper and American Realism). Professor of Art History, Fashion History, Interior Design History, and French as a Foreign Language.
Eugenia Frias-Moreno has worked as an architect with Topmorphos and Pierre-Louis Faloci in Paris. Specializes in architecture, urbanism, landscape, and interior design. She was educated at HMONP Ecole National Supérieure d’Architecture in Versailles. Instructor of Product Design and AutoCAD.
Philip Fimmano is a trend forecaster. Fimmano manages Edelkoort Etc., the Paris-based consulting company of trend forecaster, Li Edelkoort, which provides seminars and brainstorming for international companies and conducts trend studies tailored to individual client needs. In collaboration with PAA, he gave a series of trend presentations to the NIFT schools in India in 2009.
Interior Design