<p>Do you know anyone who took this as their major? Whats the job prospective for someone who graduated in this major? thanks.</p>
<p>RISD has a great program. So does RIT. North Bennet Street School in Boston is world famous. It generally means long hours to make a good living, but it is doing something you love. If it's not that way, then it's probably not a good thing for you.</p>
<p>NC State University has a great wood program with a concentration in furniture manufacturing. It is a small college within a large state u.
If you choose to live in an area where there is a lot of furniture manufacturing
I would think your prospects would be good because this kind of major is not widely offered.</p>
<p>It is hard to charge what it really costs to build fine furniture today. But it makes a great hobby.</p>
<p>how about california college of arts in SF? I think they offer it to. What do you guys think of their program?</p>
<p>colorpurple- I know someone who is a wood/furniture designer. The furniture he designs and makes are considered works of art and sell in galleries or through an agent. He struggles to make a living since he is an artist first and feels the need to work each piece himself start to finish.
His parents did not support him and he ended up studying and working as an architect for quite a few years. He was miserable. He now does what he loves most of the time. He has in the last few years also designed and built custom cabinets for people. He has also found great pleasure in taking old houses and restoring all the woodwork inside.</p>
<p>We have many friends in the furniture industry, living in NC, the heart of furniture manufacturing in US. The key word in your question is "design". While most of the factory owners here bemoan the furniture industry moving to China, they say that designers are and will be in great demand. Mass production can be done much more cheaply overseas, but design will remain here (at least that is their prediction). The same goes for textile design---have a friend whose D. is working on PhD in textile design at NC State.</p>
<p>For high quality, individually crafted pieces---believe there will always be a market, albeit a much smaller one (but of course you charge for that!).</p>
<p>For fine furniture on the west coast, College of the Redwoods Mendocino Coast campus at Fr. Bragg has James Krenov as the program director. He is world famous and many of his students go on to make a living in gallery and fine furniture.</p>