We’re delighted that Martin Whitfield MP is to be guest of honour at our professional course graduation next month. Martin was elected to the East Lothian constituency at the last election. We know he’ll be impressed by the great pieces of furniture that our students are busy completing. Just to remind you, the school’s annual …
It’s the end of our annual gilding fortnight and our professional course students have made some wonderful stuff. Rachel Faulkner from Newcastle has once again shown herself to have very real artistic talent. She’s well into carving a pair of intertwined hands for her course mirror – a piece that all our students have to …
The majority of professional course students during this gilding segment of the course choose to put their newly-acquired skills to finish their mirrors. Campbell Paterson from Grantown on Spey in the Scottish Highlands is no exception, and is completing a stunning mirror in white and yellow gold, and framed in fumed oak. Campbell spent ten …
We recently told you about a Bauhaus-inspired desk made by Giuseppe Merlino from the north of Italy. He’s now completed another project, a sensuous floating-top coffee table in American oak. The light and simple structure of the table is held together with a combination of bridle and mortice and tenon joints. The table top has …
It’s a spalted elm rocker that the late great Sam Maloof would have been proud of. It’s the creation of Paul Hartman from Alberta, and one of the finest rocking chairs that any of our professional course students has ever made. What makes it special is that Paul has taken the simple geometry of a …
The Chippendale school stands for the very best in teaching furniture design and making. It means that all our professional course students graduate with the skill to visualise their designs in 3D and with the hand tool skills to turn design ideas into finished pieces of furniture. But we’ve also now taken on another tutor …
