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This week saw the start of Term Two for our professional course students, and marks a transition from mostly learning basic skills to designing and making their own pieces. It’ a challenging period because learning all the skills you need to be a professional woodworker in 30 weeks involves intensity and hard work. This term,

We’re looking back at some of the superb pieces of furniture that our students made during their year with us, and which show how our nine-month professional course gives students the skills they need for a career in fine woodworking. Darren Christie is the first student we’ve had from the Falkland Islands, and we’re delighted

This award has been won by Darren Christie, a qualified zoologist from the Falkland Islands, for the quality of his marketing materials produced while on the course. His work included an elm and fumed oak jewellery box which he made for his wife, complete with brass hanging pegs for necklaces, and drawers for other items The

Students at the Chippendale school are required to make a number of pieces during the year, but our ethos is to allow students the freedom to create what they particularly want to make. It’s a freedom that gives students a chance to make practical pieces for their own homes, or as gifts to close family

What do a graphic designer, sheep farmer and an architect have in common? On the face of it, not a lot, except for one thing.  They’re the day jobs of just three of our students on our latest one-week introductory course. Darren Kirk from Essex is a graphic designer who is more used to creating

Darren Christie from the Falkland Islands has won our first-ever bedside cabinet award, with his prize being a commemorative handmade glass commissioned by the Chippendale Society to mark the 300th birthday of Thomas Chippendale. His stylish design in oak and satinwood was made to fit the dimensions of his bedroom back home in the South

A British naval victory in the First World War has been remembered at the Chippendale school. The Battle of the Falkland Islands took place on the 8th December 1914, and effectively destroyed the German South Atlantic Squadron. The battle is still commemorated on the Falkland Islands, and every year in the islands’ capital Stanley there