Chippendale News

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

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