This week our professional course students were introduced to the art of gilding. They learned all about oil-gilding, water-gilding and verre eglomisé, or gilding onto glass. Several students will be incorporating verre eglomisé into the mirrors they each have to make as one of the school’s set projects. Our expert tutor for the two-week gilding …
This year we’ve had intermediate course students from as far away as Brazil, Spain and Trinidad and Tobago. But Richard Reid from Sydney, Australia becomes the student who has come the furthest. He joins our other Australian student, Alex Stanton, who is on our professional course. Richard, a retired property developer, also lived for over …
Julius Schmalbach from Hamburg in Germany is the youngest student on this year’s professional course. He joined us straight from school and, when he leaves in the summer, will start a new course studying architecture. It’s something he’s naturally suited for having just completed a beautifully-designed ash chair with a woven cane back. It’s finely …
Alex Williams, originally from Sheffield but now living in the south of France, is our second intermediate course student this month. She joined us last week along with Richard Reid who is even more far-flung – from Sydney, Australia to be precise. With the major structural renovation of an old rural property near Toulouse drawing …
Anselm Fraser, the school’s principal, writing in The Woodworker magazine I’ve been teaching furniture design and making for well over 30 years, so you might think that I know everything there is to know. But while my aim has always been to help students become wonderful woodworkers and help them create some amazing pieces of …
It’s a desk that beautifully combines form and function, in a deceptive design that is both simple and complex. It’s the creation of Giuseppe Merlino from near Milan, Before he came to the Chippendale school, he was a post-doctoral researcher in microbiology. His writing desk is linear and elegant, and takes inspiration from the Bauhaus …
