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Desk, chair and triangles

The Chippendale school welcomes students of all ages and backgrounds on our introductory, intermediate and professional courses. But Giuseppe Merlino from near Milan is the first post-doctoral researcher in microbiology that we’ve ever had. It underlines how fine furniture design and making can be a second career for anybody at any age. For Giuseppe, woodworking…

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From Saudi Arabia to East Lothian

It’s not often that the school welcomes post-doctoral researchers in microbiology, but that’s the career that Giuseppe Merlino from near Milan was pursuing, and which illustrates the diversity of backgrounds of the school’s intake. After a degree from the University of Milan he worked for four years in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, researching environmental microbes…..

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Students’ Choice of the Year

Each year, our students vote for this award, and this year it goes to Gianluca Caregnato, from near Milan in northern Italy. Gianluca first came to the Chippendale school last April on one of our introductory courses, having originally studied agriculture at technical school in Italy. Gianluca has proved an outstanding student, winning a school…

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Prescribing a short course

We held our summer one-week introductory course last week, with one student coming all the way from Germany. Closer to home was Monica Farrelly, a pharmacist from Glasgow, who has a creative streak and who wanted to improve her woodworking skills. She’s the daughter of an electrician who always wanted to be a joiner, and…

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An oak frame for an old saint

Gianluca Caregnato, from near Milan in northern Italy, has already completed a wonderful ash rocking chair and a beautiful art nouveau-inspired oak desk with no less than 54 intricately-formed pieces of walnut veneer. Now he’s turned his talents to a small project that he’s carrying out on behalf of his mother who is a keen…

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A wooden future to save our forests

Tom Fraser, deputy principal Everyone who teaches at the Chippendale school, or who passes through our doors as students, have an innate passion for the raw materials of our trade: wood. We respect the diversity of this most basic yet wonderful material, and it’s the reason why almost all the wood that we use is…

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