Interior decorator
Interior (formerly upholsterer decorator or upholsterer decorator ) has taken place in the 1965 renewal of the Handwerksordnung the official job title in Germany for a craftsman in the field of interior design. In Austria is the official name upholsterer and decorator interior decorator and Switzerland.
In contrast to purely artisanal equipment or to supplementing the artistic decoration of interior spaces is referred to as decorative art.
Workspaces
Includes the activities of the interior decorator
- Stuffings and stringing of furniture
- Lay textile or resilient floor coverings
- The design and / or implementation of window decorations
- Vesting of walls with textile wall hangings or wallpaper
- The production and / or assembly of view, light or sunshades
Select Interior from taking into account the customers' wishes matching floors, wall coverings, curtains or blinds and upholstery. The pads they also manufacture itself.
An upholsterer related to the profession is that of the saddler.
Requirements
In addition to artisan talent creative inclinations should be available. The physical conditions are as diverse as the various operations. Decorating and Wandbekleiden is physically not overly strenuous, but requires a lot of skill. The bottom insert with its preparatory work ( tearing out of old covering, sanding, priming and filling of the ground, etc.) require power, as well as weights must be transported. For upholstery power and sensitivity is required in their hands. Since you have a lot to do in most activities with customers, you should be sociable and friendly. Mathematics is, as in all the craft professions, important. Draw Generic talent and sense of color and form are beneficial.
Training
The training is conducted in Germany, Austria and Switzerland in the dual system of vocational schools and in relevant training companies. The training content of the three countries are based on the activities of the working environment and differ only slightly from each other. In Switzerland, however, disciplines are established.
Germany
The training lasts three years and ends with the existence of the trade test. After the final examination can be immediately started training for Interior Master. This is relatively new, because so far had to be proven to work a certain number of years before it was possible to store the master craftsman. Interior decorators who want to further qualify professional in design, can educate for " designer / in the craft ." For example, in the Academy of Design in Munich, the Kassel plant Academy of Design or the on the Radak ( Interior Designer Academy ) at the Institute for Economic Promotion ( WIFI) Salzburg.
When training for the master of business administration of the craft is another way. In addition, a college degree can be completed, such as an interior designer.
Austria
In Austria is the official name for the teaching profession upholsterer and decorator. The training lasts three years and is governed by the associated Ausbildungsverodnung Ministry of Economy. The training ends with the final apprenticeship examination. This test also allows access to vocational Matura ( Berufsreifeprüfung ) and hence to higher qualifications in colleges, polytechnics and universities. The self-employed professional activity in Austria without master's examination possible, but this facilitates access to the craft.
Switzerland
Its official name is interior decorator with Federal. Certificate of Proficiency ( EFZ ). The training lasts four years and can be completed in six disciplines: upholstery, floor covering, installation, curtain, upholstery or wallpaper. If the final examination is positive, we obtain precisely this EFZ. As a training professional examination (BP ) or the Higher Technical Examination ( HFP) are offered. For the operational foundation or apprentice training, the Swiss authorities require of both tests.
Prospects
Usually it is at room decorators are relatively small, often family-run businesses. An exception object outfitters that specialize in wholesale customers such as hotels, hospitals, nursing homes, etc.. Due to the low start-up costs ( but there are some cases expensive tools needed ), this offers an opportunity for self-employment.
Due to the absence of the master forced upon the transfer to Appendix B of the Handwerksordnung have in Germany since 2004 fellows the opportunity for self-employment. Only this may not form apprentices, which in turn leads to shortage of skilled workers and young professionals problems.
The activity as a furniture consultant in a furniture store is possible. In addition, there is the possibility for construction manager of an object outfitter.
History of the profession
In France, the profession is tapissier under the name since 1295 known. The activities of these tapissiers was already in the Middle Ages for the furnishing of castles with Bildwirkereien, Fußteppichen, decorative fabrics, cushions and the like of meaning and flourished in the reign of Louis XIV, in which locks the apartments with valuable tapestries and hangings, drapes and padded seat and reclining furniture were fitted (see Louis quatorze style). At this time there was also the venal office of a royal decorator and interior decorator ( tapissier du roi ). A well-known holder of the office was the father of Molière, who intended it to pass on to him as his eldest son, but then it was about his younger brother.