The majority of professional course students during this gilding segment of the course choose to put their newly-acquired skills to finish their mirrors. Campbell Paterson from Grantown on Spey in the Scottish Highlands is no exception, and is completing a stunning mirror in white and yellow gold, and framed in fumed oak. Campbell spent ten …
We recently told you about a Bauhaus-inspired desk made by Giuseppe Merlino from the north of Italy. He’s now completed another project, a sensuous floating-top coffee table in American oak. The light and simple structure of the table is held together with a combination of bridle and mortice and tenon joints. The table top has …
It’s a spalted elm rocker that the late great Sam Maloof would have been proud of. It’s the creation of Paul Hartman from Alberta, and one of the finest rocking chairs that any of our professional course students has ever made. What makes it special is that Paul has taken the simple geometry of a …
The Chippendale school stands for the very best in teaching furniture design and making. It means that all our professional course students graduate with the skill to visualise their designs in 3D and with the hand tool skills to turn design ideas into finished pieces of furniture. But we’ve also now taken on another tutor …
This week our professional course students were introduced to the art of gilding. They learned all about oil-gilding, water-gilding and verre eglomisé, or gilding onto glass. Several students will be incorporating verre eglomisé into the mirrors they each have to make as one of the school’s set projects. Our expert tutor for the two-week gilding …
This year we’ve had intermediate course students from as far away as Brazil, Spain and Trinidad and Tobago. But Richard Reid from Sydney, Australia becomes the student who has come the furthest. He joins our other Australian student, Alex Stanton, who is on our professional course. Richard, a retired property developer, also lived for over …
