It’s always amazing what students on our nine-month professional course can achieve, and how students come to the Chippendale school with all sorts of prior careers. Some students at the Chippendale school come to us straight from school. A few others are looking to acquire a new skill in retirement. Most, however, come to us …
This year saw a public vote at an exhibition of students’ work in Edinburgh, with Timothy Low from Singapore winning the inaugural Punters’ Prize. His signature piece was a funfair console-style cabinet, made from layers of bendy ply and sycamore, with a hand-carved little girl on its front who has lost her balloons. The multi-coloured …
It’s a cabinet that tells its own joyful story of fun and lost balloons, but which incorporates a whole range of skills including shaping wood, marquetry and woodcarving. Timothy Low’s funfair console-style cabinet, made from layers of bendy ply and sycamore, has a hand-carved little girl on its front who has lost her balloons. The …
Tom Fraser, deputy principal, Chippendale school, who will contribute a regular column to our website. The Chippendale school is, first and last, a furniture design school teaching all aspects of fine furniture design and making. But we also try and instil some business skills in our students, including the need to have a well-presented website …
We recently wrote about one of our students who is incorporating several skills into one piece of furniture, including shaping wood, marquetry and woodcarving. All of those skills, and more, are going into Timothy Low’s console-style table which is made from layers of bendy ply and sycamore. Timothy, who is from Singapore and is a …
Designing and making a piece of furniture sometimes only needs a few basic skills. Sometimes, however, it can bring together a variety of skills. That’s the case with Timothy Low’s hallway table, which is bringing together skills in shaping wood, marquetry and woodcarving – on top of other cabinet making skills. Timothy, from Singapore, has …
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