Over the next couple of weeks we’ll highlight some of the best pieces that our professional course students made during 2017/18. It’s always a delight to welcome students from around the world for our nine-month professional course and see them blossom into fantastic designers and woodworkers. So, for those you who missed some of their …
Favourite things: Vanessa’s beautiful Sam Maloof chair Read More »
It may only be the start of Term Three for our professional course students, but we’d like to make sure that you put this year’s exhibition and Open Day dates in your diary. As always, our students are making some fantastic pieces of furniture that we know you’ll enjoy seeing. The week of exhibition and …
We recently highlighted the issue of women coming into woodworking, and how we’d like to see more female applicants for our courses. So it was pleasing that our cause was highlighted this week in a double-page spread in the Sunday Herald, one of Scotland’s leading quality newspapers. Because there is no reason why women shouldn’t …
Newspaper supports our call for women in woodworking Read More »
The Chippendale school is proud of our track record in helping to launch the careers of woodworkers from around the world. But we were surprised this year when one of our students, Archana Pai, told us that when she returned home she would be one of very few female furniture makers in India. That might …
One of the reasons that Vanessa Johnston from Seattle won the Chippendale Society Prize 2018 was the coherence of her olive ash and wych elm furniture collection. It’s a collection that includes bedside tables, chair, intricate clock, and a dining table that is held together using a complex tenon and rabbet joint, known as a …
Vanessa Johnston from Seattle has proved to be a versatile and prolific woodworker whose skills are matched by the quality of her designs. She’s already proved that with a collection of wych elm and olive ash furniture, including a table, bedside tables and an intricate clock. She’s now turned her hand to designing and making …
