The Chippendale school has announced details of its new one-month intermediate course. The month-long intermediate course will primarily be taught by staff member Alan McGovern who has 33 years of woodworking experience. Alan is pictured (above right) with, Eion Gibbs, our first student on the course. You can read more about Eion here. The intermediate […]
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Fiona Gilfillan from Tranent in East Lothian is the second student on our month-long intermediate course. A keen woodworking hobbyist, Fiona fist came to the Chippendale school two years ago on one of our one-week introductory courses. A self-employed business change management consultant, Fiona is taking a short sabbatical from her consultancy work to take
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Darren Christie from the Falkland Islands has won our first-ever bedside cabinet award, with his prize being a commemorative handmade glass commissioned by the Chippendale Society to mark the 300th birthday of Thomas Chippendale. His stylish design in oak and satinwood was made to fit the dimensions of his bedroom back home in the South
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Honor Dalrymple, from East Lothian, has taken second place in our bedside cabinet competition, as chosen by the school’s teaching staff. Her four-leg pine cabinet veneered in rosewood, is a beautifully-constructed piece of furniture that perfectly balances form and function. It’s the first piece of furniture we ask all students to make during their first
If you’re lucky enough to have silver knives and forks, what better to keep them in but a bespoke cabinet. That’s what Roderick Groenewegen from Amerongen in the Netherlands has made, complete with complex inlay and lined inside with dark green felt. His cabinet, made from oak and American walnut, also has beautifully-executed tambour doors
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Gianluca Caregnato, from near Milan in northern Italy, has taken third prize in our first-ever bedside cabinet competition, winning the modest prize of a bottle wine. This year we gave all our students the task of individually completing a bedside cabinet before the Christmas break. It may seem like an unusual task, but a bedside
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