It’s difficult to define when something designed for a humble function transcends that purpose to become a work of art, but Archana Pai’s clarsach mirror has certainly made that transition. A former Internal auditor and chartered accountant, Archana wanted to make a piece that would celebrate her year in Scotland. Her mirror reflects the proportions …
Frank Kirwan is local to the school and enjoyed a career in finance before embarking on a professional course at the Chippendale school “to see if I could do it.” He certainly can, as the quality of his output has shown both woodworking skill and design talent. Not bad for someone with no previous real …
Matt Hanley is a former arboriculturist who brings an enormous respect for the raw material of the woodworking trade to his furniture designs. His two garden chairs reflect that philosophy of working with the natural form of the wood, rather than shaping or veneering it into something else. His single and double garden chairs are …
Most pieces of furniture have one obvious and entirely functional purpose to perform, so it’s always good to see a piece of furniture that doesn’t quite know what it is. Because if you fold up Roderick Groenewegen’s games table, made from mahogany with alder and American walnut veneers, it’s a stylish and beautiful console table …
One of the reasons that Vanessa Johnston from Seattle won the Chippendale Society Prize 2018 was the coherence of her olive ash and wych elm furniture collection. It’s a collection that includes bedside tables, chair, intricate clock, and a dining table that is held together using a complex tenon and rabbet joint, known as a …
The Richard Demarco Prize 2018 has been awarded to an American student whose pepperwood and walnut round table “transcends craftsmanship and design.” John Grillo, a former business intelligence analyst from Denver, Colorado, was presented with his certificate at a reception in Edinburgh. The prize is awarded by the celebrated Professor Richard Demarco CBE, one of the …
