We’re having a look back at some of the fantastic pieces of furniture that our students made this year, showing how a professional course at the Chippendale school allows students to embark on a new career. Chris Daborn, originally from Surrey, created a settle that doubles up as a table, a piece of functional art …
Over the next couple of weeks we’ll highlight some of the best pieces that our professional course students made during 2017/18. It’s always a delight to welcome students from around the world for our nine-month professional course and see them blossom into fantastic designers and woodworkers. So, for those you who missed some of their …
Favourite things: Vanessa’s beautiful Sam Maloof chair Read More »
A national newspaper recently asked Anselm Fraser, our principal, for an article on the early history of furniture design and woodworking. Here’s what he had to say. In considering the history of furniture design, we need only look to a small Neolithic settlement on Orkney, off the north of Scotland. Skara Brae consists of eight …
We recently highlighted the issue of women coming into woodworking, and how we’d like to see more female applicants for our courses. So it was pleasing that our cause was highlighted this week in a double-page spread in the Sunday Herald, one of Scotland’s leading quality newspapers. Because there is no reason why women shouldn’t …
Newspaper supports our call for women in woodworking Read More »
Yorkshire-based artist and Chippendale school graduate Hannah Honeywill has been selected as a finalist in the prestigious Broomhill National Sculpture Prize. Hannah, who graduated from the school in 2008, now works as an artist who uses the furniture making and restoration skills she learnt on the course to make sculpture. The Broomhill Art and Sculpture Foundation …
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In his fourth article on modern woodworking, Anselm Fraser, principal.of the Chippendale school, looks at taking risks. “The biggest risk is not taking any risk… In a world that is changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.” Or so says Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook which …
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