Paul Hartman from Alberta, Canada comes to us with a great deal of woodworking and construction experience, having earned a national Red Seal carpentry qualification. Prior to that he studied Divinity at a Canadian seminary, although decided that his faith could best be practiced from outside the church. His decision to follow a carpentry career …
Many of our students are men and women who have decided on a change of career…to follow their real and creative passion for woodworking. But it’s always also nice to welcome a professional student onto the course who comes to us straight from school. Julius Schmalbach from Hamburg in Germany received no formal woodworking training …
John Vaughan comes from the West of Ireland and always had a keen interest in woodworking. But a busy job as a hotelier left little spare time for his hobby. The time was right for a change and he came to the school to develop his skills and learn how to make beautiful things out of …
It’s often said that you can’t run before you learn to walk, and that’s absolutely true for fine furniture design. The first basic skill that our students need to acquire is the delicate art of being able to accurately visualise their ideas and express them in 3D drawings. As in previous years, we’re therefore delighted …
We already have student registrations for the class of 2019/20, who have planned well ahead and taken advantage of our Early Bird discount scheme. If you’re thinking about enrolling at the school, it’s a £1,250 offer too good to miss – but it expires at the end of November. The Chippendale school is not only …
Steve Tripp from Minnesota is a former IT consultant who worked all over the USA, north to south and coast to coast. His journey to the Chippendale school has taken four years to plan, from moving to a smaller home, and his wife enrolling into Queen Margaret University just outside Edinburgh to complete a Masters …
