Institute Of Floral Design - India

IFD takes pride in being able to offer a structured curriculum attractive to men and women with various inspirational plans to become floral designers, meet the needs and interest of today’s emerging professional floral designers seeking successful and rewarding employment with event managers, corporate or a goal of owning and operating one’s retail floral business or a desire to acquire floral de

sign skills for personal enjoyment and develop a therapeutic relationship with flowers to combat today’s evils of tension, stress and depression. bullet
IFD is a sponsored venture of Smithers Oasis (I) Pvt Ltd. bullet
IFD the first and only professional institute in India providing a leading educational course in floral design. bullet
IFD affiliated to the Instituto Mexicano Technico Floral (IMTF), Mexico. IMTF is a member of the American Institute of Floral Designer(AIFD) Education Partner(Pathway Provider)

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The curriculum of IFD has been adopted from the IMTF (Mexico) to cater to the increasing market demand as per our Indian culture, ethics and taste. bullet
Curriculum has lectures, demonstrations, AV presentations, practice and critique. bullet
A wide selection of fresh flowers and foliage are used throughout the program and each student works on their own with guidance of a qualified instructor. bullet
Each fun and informative class focuses on floral concepts. As you create a beautiful arrangement one learns care and handling techniques, the element and principle of design, design form and technique and flower arranging skills. bullet
Class size is limited to assure that each student receives individual attention. Our Directors

Rocio Silva ( CFD, AIFD ) : Director IMTF
Seema Jhaveri : Director IFD
Rocio is a certificated floral designer from the AIFD (American Institute of Floral Designers) and member of this association. Since 2004 she has served as a Director of Instituto Mexicano Técnico Floral (IMTF) in Monterrey, México. Under her leadership, this school has graduated more than 1,500. Students accredited in floral design. She has been in charge of designing the curriculum as well as producing and editing the textbooks for all the IMTF Schools. Rocío has been part of the floral industry all her life. Her family has owned retail flower shops in México for over 50 years. She was a floral columnist in one of the most important newspaper in the Country for 3 years. She also collaborates with the Latin American Magazine “Arte floral “ & has also attended several courses of floral designs in United States. She has also successfully completed the Professional floral design evaluators exam. Seema Jhaveri has been born and brought up in Nairobi (Kenya). Kenya is one of the major exporters in the world for cut flowers and she has vast experience in this field having handled exports to various European Markets. Seema holds a degree in Computer science. Seema has done advance courses in counseling and Jewelry designing. Seema has undergone a rigorous training at IMTF, Monterrey regarding various aspects of running a professional floral design institute.