One of the marks of an extremely gifted student is someone who doesn’t suffer waste gladly, and will try to find value where others might only see rubbish. That’s a trait exhibited by Matt Hanley, from Leominster in Herefordshire, who is creating a whole array of wooden bowls from off-cuts of wood that might otherwise …
Isaac Young, from Suffolk, has already shown that youth is no impediment to designing and creating beautiful and inspiring pieces of furniture. His last piece, for example, was a walnut and olive ash sideboard cabinet comprising well over 400 precisely cut pieces of wood. The tambour doors to his cabinet were constructed from thin strips …
Gianluca Caregnato, from near Milan in northern Italy, has already completed a wonderful ash rocking chair and a beautiful art nouveau-inspired oak desk with no less than 54 intricately-formed pieces of walnut veneer. Now he’s turned his talents to a small project that he’s carrying out on behalf of his mother who is a keen …
It’s a cabinet that tells its own joyful story of fun and lost balloons, but which incorporates a whole range of skills including shaping wood, marquetry and woodcarving. Timothy Low’s funfair console-style cabinet, made from layers of bendy ply and sycamore, has a hand-carved little girl on its front who has lost her balloons. The …
Joshua Godbert, from Herefordshire, is proving to be a highly accomplished designer who isn’t afraid to incorporate significant challenges into his pieces. He’s just finished a complex oak and yew cabinet, with spalted beech shelves and drawer, with an internal arch comprising several pieces of oak that had to precisely coopered for a perfect fit. …
Tom Fraser, deputy principal Everyone who teaches at the Chippendale school, or who passes through our doors as students, have an innate passion for the raw materials of our trade: wood. We respect the diversity of this most basic yet wonderful material, and it’s the reason why almost all the wood that we use is …
