This week saw our professional course students learn the delicate skill of oyster work, which is a decorative form of veneering or parquetry. It’s a technique that uses thin slices of wood cut in cross-section to form circular or oval pieces of veneer which, when placed side by side, create any kind of decorative pattern …
The Chippendale school runs different levels of woodworking design and making courses – from our one-week introductory course, to our one-month intermediate course and nine-month professional course. We are now to introduce a number of one-week complementary courses that are intended to teach skills ancillary to furniture design and making, while still being relevant to …
The Chippendale school is one of the world’s pre-eminent schools of furniture design and making, and we’re looking to recruit an experienced tutor to join our team. The successful candidate must be able to demonstrate all-round woodworking and design skills, with appropriate qualifications, and should preferably have teaching experience in a woodworking environment. He or …
Alex Stanton, from Brisbane in Australia, is completing his first major project – a stunning ash console table, with beautiful decorative flourishes. Many students would have made relatively simple legs for what is primarily a functional piece of hallway furniture, but Alex has moulded laminated supports that are a design echo of Gothic cathedral architecture. …
Gordon Young from Edinburgh is well on the way to completing a beautiful and functional desk in oak and flamed beech. Gordon, who has a Masters degree in civil engineering from Heriot-Watt University, is someone who has always been a natural at making things. That innate skill is evident in his desk, which will have …
Anselm Fraser, principal, Chippendale school Our professional course is all about teaching students the skills they’ll need for a career in fine woodworking. It’s a course that we’ve refined over the years, and an approach to teaching and learning that, we believe, can’t be bettered elsewhere. But our professional course also recognises that, while we …
