Mara Dreger, a pediatrician from Sao Paulo in Brazil, has completed her one-month intermediate course with us and is now jetting back to Brazil. She’s a keen woodworking hobbyist who has now learned many new skills, and says that the course “was fantastic.” She particularly heaped praise on course tutor Alan McGovern, a skilled cabinet …
Chris Daborn is a new member of the Fine Furniture Guild, who has just set up in business in Norfolk. His company, 4th Dimension Furniture, will specialise “in the creation of beautiful, high quality pieces by mixing traditional skills, materials and techniques with modern innovations to give results that are truly unique. “Why 4th Dimension? …
In the second in a series of articles on modern woodworking, Anselm Fraser, principal of the Chippendale school looks at how to find inspiration. Inspiration is a fickle thing, in woodworking as in anything. Some days we search for it; other days it comes to us. For me, inspiration takes me back to my childhood …
Anselm Fraser, principal of the Chippendale school, is writing a series of weekly articles on how to succeed in fine furniture design and making. Here he outlines his philosophy of lifelong learning. Woodworking is a passion many of us share, whether as professional cabinetmakers or keen hobbyists. That’s why the Chippendale school has one-week introductory …
Mostly, our one-month intermediate course students make wonderful pieces of furniture for themselves or for other two-legged members of their family. Not so Sarah Quick, from Midlothian near Edinburgh, who is close to completing a beech cabinet, complete with drawers and sliding doors, as a dog cage for her English pointer, Kobi. It’s shaping up …
We always like to innovate at the Chippendale school, and the creation of our one-month intermediate course earlier this year is a case in point. It’s proving to be more successful than we expected, with one current student, Mara Dreger, coming to us all the way from Sao Paulo in Brazil. As an international school, …
