Steve Tripp from Minnesota is a former IT consultant who worked all over the USA, north to south and coast to coast. His journey to the Chippendale school has taken four years to plan, from moving to a smaller home, and his wife enrolling into Queen Margaret University just outside Edinburgh to complete a Masters …
Most students with furniture design experience usually also have some basic woodworking skills. Not so Heather Jones from Los Angeles who was an art director and graphic designer, and who therefore already has the visual and artistic skills to design her own pieces. It’s a creativity she has further developed over the years as one …
Rachel Faulkner from Newcastle comes to us having served in the Merchant Navy. She allowed her artistic and practical side take over and is now retraining as a professional woodworker. While she has no formal experience in furniture design and woodworking she has tried her hand at pyrography and built simple pieces of furniture including …
It’s not often that the school welcomes post-doctoral researchers in microbiology, but that’s the career that Giuseppe Merlino from near Milan was pursuing, and which illustrates the diversity of backgrounds of the school’s intake. After a degree from the University of Milan he worked for four years in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, researching environmental microbes.. …
Earlier this year, Fiona Gilfillan from Tranent in East Lothian became the second student on our month-long intermediate course which we only added to the curriculum this year. She’s long been a keen hobbyist, and first came to the Chippendale school two years ago on one of our one-week introductory courses. However, when she realised …
Oli Juliusson from Hafnarfjardur in Iceland was a fisherman for ten years, before deciding to swap the trawler’s net for a chisel. He fished the Icelandic waters for cod, herring and red fish, often away from home for up to 30 days. Oli first came across the school on the internet about six years ago …
