Tom Fraser, deputy principal, Chippendale school, who will contribute a regular column to our website. The Chippendale school is, first and last, a furniture design school teaching all aspects of fine furniture design and making. But we also try and instil some business skills in our students, including the need to have a well-presented website …
Every year we bring in specialist tutors to teach our students how to make that most iconic of English chairs, the Windsor chair. So we’re privileged this week to welcome Tom Thackray and Stephen Langton who are master craftsmen in Windsor chair making. The reason for teaching this form of furniture making is, says Tom, …
It‘s a beautiful art nouveau-inspired mantle clock that will always remind Vanessa Johnston of her grandmother who kept a similar clock on her mantelpiece. Vanessa, from Seattle, is making all her pieces, including the clock, from wych elm and olive ash, two timber species that aren’t native to the USA. The case of the clock …
The Chippendale school is associated with furniture design and making, so it’s not often that one of our students sets out to make a prosthetic tail for a dead cat. But that was part of the task that Dr Phillip Prager from Luxembourg has undertaken to upcycle a mummified cat into a golden work of …
The Chippendale school is delighted that Professor Richard Demarco CBE will be awarding the third annual Demarco Prize 2018 at a reception in Edinburgh this June. Professor Demarco is one of the UK’s leading arts commentators, a leading advocate for contemporary art, and honorary president of the Fine Furniture Guild, an association of alumni of …
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The art of gilding may go back thousands of years, but that doesn’t mean that a bit of innovation can’t take place. So believes Richard Walker, who has been teaching this beautiful craft to students at the school for the past two weeks. Richard, one of Europe’s leading gilding experts, runs Watergild Studios and also …
