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Ali Meets Ali and George III Takes a Keen Interest

Alison Wilson started her career in architecture then became a construction consultant. She has designed her own house in Dunlop in Ayrshire.

Ali was going to commission a dining room table when she bumped into Alasdair Easton, a Chippendale School graduate who now runs Organic Geometry from the largest Chippendale Incubation workshop. Alison was very interested to hear that Ali (as he’s confusingly also known!) had learnt his professional woodworking skills at the Chippendale School of Furniture.

Workshop improvements give students more bench space

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Anselm wanted to ensure his tutors were kept busy during the summer holidays so they’ve been refurbishing the main workshop and creating more space round student benches.

“Because we are a not-for-profit organisation, we are continually reinvesting in our buildings and facilities. Every year we make improvements. Our students wanted more space round their benches so we decided to make our workshop even bigger,” says Anselm Fraser.

Chippendale School Students Learn to Make Britain’s National Chair, the ‘Windsor Chair’

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Tom Thackray, the UK’s leading Windsor chair maker, has just spent a week teaching woodworking students at the Chippendale International School of Furniture how to make Windsor chairs. He first met Anselm when he was running his Thomas Chippendale School in South Carolina then Oregon, and has been coming to Scotland to the Chippendale School …

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Your Invitation: Student Exhibition & Sale of Furniture – 17th & 18th June 2013

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INVITATION from ANSELM & ANTONIA FRASER Student Exhibition and Sale of Furniture Monday 17th or Tuesday 18th June 2013 6 – 8 pm Wine and strawberries. Admire and buy inspiring, classical and contemporary furniture, all created by the school’s 20 talented students. The UK’s leading furniture school. Developing creative careers in wood. We look forward …

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Some of the Things that Make our Furniture Design Course Stand Out

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Do you dream of building a rewarding career in professional furniture design and restoration? There are still some places on our furniture making and furniture restoration course starting this October 2013. Our feedback suggests that our courses are that little bit different: 1. We teach you up to 80 woodworking techniques in just 9 months …

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Vicente’s journey from Mexico to the Chippendale School of Furniture

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This is a furniture student blog by Vicente Ridaura-Harvey from Tampico in north-east Mexico, five hours from the US border near the Gulf of Mexico. The photographs show the wonderful ‘throne’, one of the pieces created by Vicente at the Chippendale School of Furniture. Vicente explains that the arms and curved back of his chair …

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