A national newspaper recently asked Anselm Fraser, our principal, for an article on the early history of furniture design and woodworking. Here’s what he had to say. In considering the history of furniture design, we need only look to a small Neolithic settlement on Orkney, off the north of Scotland. Skara Brae consists of eight …
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 …
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Yorkshire-based artist and Chippendale school graduate Hannah Honeywill has been selected as a finalist in the prestigious Broomhill National Sculpture Prize. Hannah, who graduated from the school in 2008, now works as an artist who uses the furniture making and restoration skills she learnt on the course to make sculpture. The Broomhill Art and Sculpture Foundation …
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In his fourth article on modern woodworking, Anselm Fraser, principal.of the Chippendale school, looks at taking risks. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” Or so says Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook which …
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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 …
Shane Elliot is a Chippendale school graduate who is creating “furniture in motion” – based on an original design used during the American prohibition era. His beautifully-constructed table, made from ebony maccassar, elm burr veneer and brushed antique brass, conceals a hidden interior compartment, a design developed in 1920s America when alcohol was banned. You …
