Teaching The Next Generation Of Designers

As part of Strand’s commitment to developing quality service within the industry, we’re doing our bit to educate the interior designers of the future.

So far this year, we’ve hosted almost 10 groups of students from the  respected International School of Colour + Design.

Led by Stu, the seminars take place in Strand’s Mascot showroom and focus on the practicalities of the trade to help them hit the ground running when they graduate at the end of the year.

“We’re teaching the nuts and bolts of how to impress and deliver really good service to their clients,” says Stu.

“Things like delivery times, how trade-only agencies like us work, freight costs and capabilities of the brands that we represent are really useful when they start practicing. We’d like to see this sort of thing become part of the curriculum.”

Lee Jones was one of the students at the showroom last week. After a career in health care, she’s changing direction to make use of her creativity and eye for style. “This sort of thing is really good to just give an idea of how it all works,” she says.

Nicole Corbett from property developers the Norfolk Group is another student at Strand last week. “The visit has been excellent,” she says. “We typically hire a lot of furniture for show apartments but what I’ve learned here means we could consider buying our own stock to reuse.”