The stars and stripes came to East Lothian to celebrate America’s Thanksgiving Day. Students and staff at the Chippendale International School of Furniture tucked into mince pies and pumpkin pies to celebrate the occasion. It was a taste of home for the three US students at the school this year – from left to right, …
Raj Singh is one of three Indian students at the Chippendale school this year. He started a career in banking in India, working in Mumbai for over 12 years. Raj then moved to Oman to work in corporate banking and project finance and, over the next 20 years, worked on financing projects large and small …
The Chippendale school prides itself on being a truly international school, with students from across the world. We doubt there is another furniture school anywhere with the same international reach, underlining our reputation in many countries worldwide. But as the school continues to develop and adapt each year, we have been looking not only at …
The passion to work creatively with wood is one that can take a few years to bubble to the surface. For Chris Daborn, originally from Surrey, it took several years while he worked in IT for a major public sector organisation in Norfolk. His speciality was geographic information systems which capture, store, manipulate, analyze, manage, …
It sometimes takes a while for people to find their vocation in life, and that’s true of Gianluca Caregnato, from near Milan in northern Italy. He originally studied agriculture at technical school because of his love of nature. But he’s also been passionate about woodworking, and slowly honing his skills as a keen hobbyist. He …
One of the great frustrations shared by all furniture design schools is that the option of fine furniture making is not a career option that schools tend to recommend to their pupils. That’s because it’s a career they don’t know much about because – and maybe all furniture schools are at fault here – we …
