Graduates on our professional course leave the Chippendale school with all sorts of different ambitions for their futures. Some want to specialise in kitchen design and building, others want to concentrate on fine furniture, and others will see how their businesses develop. But a key focus for some students is furniture restoration, both because they …
We’re always delighted to feature the work of former students, particularly one as talented as Colin Bate who now runs Highwood Furniture. So talented is Colin that he was voted Students’ Choice Student of the Year 2017, and has gone on to set up his business in Alyth, Perth & Kinross. He’s now working out …
It’s called brick building but it’s really an exercise in learning how to fashion many pieces of wood into one geometrically perfect circle. That was our two-day learning challenge this week, giving our students just 48 hours to fashion 32 carefully-cut pieces of pine into four layers to create a hollow wooden structure. Once the …
We only launched our one-month intermediate course at the start of this year, but we’re already taking bookings through to the middle of next year. Our intermediate students this year have come from the UK, Brazil and Germany – and students next year are coming from as far as Trinidad & Tobago and, for the …
Learning to be a professional furniture designer and maker involves the acquisition of many skills, as well as the confidence to dream the impossible and make it happen. It’s a challenge for our students because our nine-month professional course is much shorter than many other competitor courses, so it’s therefore a learning process with a …
Every furniture school has to balance teaching students the skills they’ll need to be professional woodworkers with the creativity to design and make great furniture. It’s a balance that varies greatly between schools, with some establishments requiring students to achieve, for example, dovetail excellence before moving onto the next skill. The Chippendale school is a …
