June 5th next year will mark the 300th anniversary of the birth of Thomas Chippendale, the great 18th century furniture designer. He has been an inspiration for furniture designers worldwide. Not only did he design fantastic furniture, but he was the absolute first to embrace modern ideas on marketing and publicity. “It’s no coincidence that, …
When Honor Dalrymple starts to make her own furniture, you can be sure of one thing: it absolutely won’t fall apart! She studied civil engineering at the University of Bristol and then worked in London as a structural engineer. However, for her, it was sometimes a frustrating profession, with structural engineers only being required to …
The stars and stripes came to East Lothian to celebrate America’s Thanksgiving Day. Students and staff at the Chippendale International School of Furniture tucked into mince pies and pumpkin pies to celebrate the occasion. It was a taste of home for the three US students at the school this year – from left to right, …
Raj Singh is one of three Indian students at the Chippendale school this year. He started a career in banking in India, working in Mumbai for over 12 years. Raj then moved to Oman to work in corporate banking and project finance and, over the next 20 years, worked on financing projects large and small …
The Chippendale school prides itself on being a truly international school, with students from across the world. We doubt there is another furniture school anywhere with the same international reach, underlining our reputation in many countries worldwide. But as the school continues to develop and adapt each year, we have been looking not only at …
The passion to work creatively with wood is one that can take a few years to bubble to the surface. For Chris Daborn, originally from Surrey, it took several years while he worked in IT for a major public sector organisation in Norfolk. His speciality was geographic information systems which capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, …
