The Course

The Italian Cooking Class blends culinary practice, cultural awareness, and sensory education. Students explore the core ingredients of Mediterranean cuisine such as olive oil, grains, vegetables, legumes, cheese, fish, fruit, and herbs, approaching each one as the result of agricultural knowledge, climate, and tradition.

Through daily hands-on sessions, they learn essential cooking techniques such as knife skills, basic preparations, fermentation, roasting, grilling, preserving, and simple cooking methods, gradually building confidence in the kitchen while understanding how technique shapes flavor, texture, and balance

Parallel to practice, students develop ingredient awareness and sensory sensitivity, learning to recognize quality, seasonality, and nutritional properties. Food is explored as culture and storytelling: a way to understand place, memory, and conviviality.

The program we offer isn’t just a food experience, but it extends beyond the kitchen through field trips to local producers, where students encounter the people and environments behind Italian ingredients.
Set within Florence and opening toward the wider Tuscan landscape, the course offers a contemporary yet deeply rooted introduction to Italian food culture, understood as both a daily practice and a shared cultural heritage.

Final Project

This culinary journey concludes with a collective and experiential final moment centered on cooking, sharing, and reflection.
Drawing on the techniques and principles developed throughout the course, students collaboratively prepare a final convivial meal that brings together ingredient knowledge, seasonality, and balanced menu construction.

This concluding experience is more than just a cooking class in italy: it synthesizes practice, cultural understanding, and sensory awareness, emphasizing food as a social and cultural act.
The final outcome reflects the course’s core philosophy: cooking as an expression of care, simplicity, and connection between ingredients, territory, and people.

The Course

This is not a traditional cooking course. It’s an intensive learning experience rooted in Italian food culture, creativity, and contemporary design thinking.

Held in the heart of Florence, our intensive Culinary School invites students to explore the culinary world through a multidimensional lens, combining hands-on kitchen practice with conceptual development, cultural research, and entrepreneurial tools. The program begins with workshops on food storytelling and concept design, then moves into hands-on kitchen training in a real restaurant, where students cook, plate, and collaborate as part of a real team.

Students receive chef training in a professional environment, learning traditional and contemporary cooking techniques, mastering the fundamentals of food systems, and exploring the history and culture of Italian cuisine. Field trips to local food and wine producers enrich the experience, connecting students with sustainable, artisanal supply chains.

Alongside this, field visits and seminars explore sustainability, local sourcing, and food ethics, giving students the tools to turn culinary ideas into meaningful experiences.

The Experience

Our Culinary Arts School offers more than a cooking education — it provides a comprehensive and thoughtful approach to the culinary world, encouraging students to engage with food as both craft and culture.

Inspired by Italian design thinking, the program emphasizes creativity, functionality, and cultural awareness in every aspect of the learning process — from the conception of a dish to the development of a culinary brand. Just as Italian design blends beauty, meaning, and purpose, students are invited to explore food not only as nourishment but as an expressive medium capable of telling stories, building connections, and generating value.

Final Project

The final project is your chance to shape and present your own culinary brand.

You’ll create a food concept that reflects your values and style, complete with a seasonal menu, brand identity, and visual presentation. It’s a creative statement and a professional showcase.

This project is where your voice as a culinary thinker comes to life.

The Course

Hone your pottery and design skills in our ceramics course in Italy.

You will learn wheel throwing techniques, sculpting, mold-making, and 3D digital design.

Emphasizing personal vision and style, you will cultivate your artistic creations while gaining knowledge of advanced 3D shapes.

Join our pottery courses in Florence, Italy, designed to enrich your understanding of ceramic crafts and lay the foundation for your professional and personal artistic journey.

Final Collection

With your final project, you will have the opportunity to design and craft your own capsule collection of ceramic pieces using the techniques learned during our ceramics course. This process will allow you to explore and refine your personal style and artistic vision. Guided by skilled ceramic artisans, you will apply all the techniques and material knowledge acquired, enabling your creativity to flourish as you bring your ideas to life in our pottery classes in Florence.

The course

The Cosmetic Formulation Course blends botanical knowledge, traditional plant-based techniques and contemporary craft. Students explore the historical and cultural roots of herbalism, learn basic botanical identification, and practice sustainable methods for harvesting and drying medicinal plants.
Through guided workshops, they explore infusions, decoctions, infused oils, macerates and tinctures, while also being introduced to the principles of skincare manufacturing and small-scale distillation.

The course covers the foundations of cosmetic formulation, including balms, masks and simple emulsions, alongside sensory exploration and the creation of personal care rituals.
Set within Florence’s rich botanical and artisanal landscape, the program offers a practical and holistic approach to plant-based wellbeing.

Final Project

The course concludes with the creation of a small holistic capsule collection that reflects each student’s research and creative direction.
Working with the techniques learned during the cosmetic classes, students create and present experimental prototypes of natural skincare products, herbal preparations and aromatic blends, together with a personal sensory and botanical identity.

All products developed during the course are experimental prototypes for educational purposes only and are not intended for commercial sale or distribution.

The course

Learn the art of traditional Stefano Bemer shoe making heritage in the heart of Made in Italy, Florence. Led by expert Maestros, our Bespoke Shoemaking Course offers the most complete hands-on training on the techniques and tradition of classic high-end shoes, featuring the teaching of last adjustments, upper making, goodyear hand welting, and norwegian construction.

Join the Stefano Bemer School, where tradition meets creativity. Become a skilled shoemaker and craft your own masterpieces with SCHOLA.

The partner

Stefano Bemer founded his brand in 1983 with the ambitious goal of crafting the perfect Italian shoe. Through years of practice, He mastered the art of shoemaking, establishing a brand associated with the highest standards of Italian elegance and quality.

Not merely a business, Stefano Bemer is described as an ongoing adventure blending passion, quality, and tradition.

Final project

In the final collection, students will develop a unique capsule collection, showcasing their personal style and vision while mastering traditional bespoke shoe making. Each collection highlights their craftsmanship and evolving design identity.

From conception to creation, students gain a transformative experience, preparing them for a successful career in the industry as makers, artisans or designers.