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Design is not style. It’s not form. Design is managing the relationship between people and the objects they’re surrounded by. Design should construct extraordinary experiences via architecture, art, and culture and facilitate them to the people. The practice of design requires the integration of thinking strategies, formal logic, and appropriate use of materials, as well as social and cultural transparency. If these conditions are met, design communicates instantly.

Communication is produced, accordingly, in the forms such as rigor, genius, humor or sobriety; whichever is appropriate depending on the requirements of the final client, user or person for the design experience.

At Arte4_Interior Design School we believe the space between action and object is occupied by people and, thus, a potent tool for innovation is observing the corresponding socio-cultural interaction. In this way responsible interpretations of sociological reality are more likely to occur.

The School

Arte4_Interior Design School is the only public school in the Community of Madrid that offers Upper Level Interior Design Study as described in the LOE:

• Upper Level Studies of Interior Design, per RD 1464/1995, initiated by Order 30/1/1996 in the academic year 1996/1997: Temporary Architecture, Furnishing and Showcase Design, which correspond to the degrees of: Upper Technical Degree of Temporary Architecture, Upper Technical Degree in Furnishing, and Upper Technical Degree of Showcase Design.

• Upper Level Studies of Interior Design, per RD 1464/1995, initiated by Order 3716/2002 in the academic year 2002/2003, which correspond to the degrees of: Interior Design, equivalent to Diplomature and which is incorporated at the European level as equivalent to GRADUATE.

Our lengthy experience in the field of interior design marks us as a school leader, granting our degrees a high measure of academic and social prestige.

• 1857 the Moyano Law recognizes the School of Applied Arts under the aegis “Beaux Arts”.

• 1963. The Plan of 63. First official regulation of Applied Arts and Arts Professions Teaching which gives structure to the learning program of Interior Decoration.

• 1967 The Association of Professional Decorators is created.

• 1984 The subject of Decorating is transferred to the School of Applied Arts and Arts Profession number 4, thus leaving each school in Madrid to specialize in different areas.

• 1990 The LOGSE establishes the Academic Regime of Plastic Arts and Design. It is organized in the following manner:

- Study cycles in Interior Design

- Upper Level Studies in Design, specializing in Interiors, with a Degree in Design specializing in Interiors, equivalent to Diplomature.

• 1995 Upper Level Study Cycles of Interior Design are implemented

• 2002 Upper Level Study of Design specializing in Interiors is implemented.