Chippendale News

The Chippendale school is delighted to announce that Dr Adam Bowett, chairman of the Chippendale Society, will be awarding a prize to one of our students at a graduation event in Edinburgh this summer. The Chippendale Society’s principal aims are to advance public education, to promote the appreciation and study of the work of Thomas […]

Spring has finally come to the Chippendale school, with blue skies, warm sunshine…and summer just around the corner. It’s also the time of year for new beginnings, when many people are thinking about the future and how they can best pursue their ambitions. So if your passion is woodworking and you’d like to turn fine

Proving that sawdust really does get into your veins, our first two intermediate course students have signed up for our 2018/19 professional course. We introduced a new one-month intermediate course earlier this year, to bridge an identified gap between our one-week introductory course and our professional course. Our first intermediate student, Eion Gibbs from the

The Chippendale school is more than a place of learning.  On top of incubation space where graduates can set up in business, it also comprises kitchen design and making, and a restoration business. In charge of restoration is Clare Charleston who has been at the school for over twenty years, and who is currently working

When you’re a student woodworker not long out of school, you’d think that the natural thing would be to design and make simple pieces of furniture. Not so Isaac Young, from Suffolk, who has created a walnut and olive ash sideboard cabinet comprising well over 400 precisely cut pieces of wood. The tambour doors to

This week we’re privileged to have Richard Walker, one of Europe’s foremost experts in the ancient art of gilding, at the school. Over a two-week period, Richard will be teaching our students the finer points of oil-gilding, water-gilding and verre eglomisé, the art of gilding onto glass. Richard has a studio based in the south