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Your Invitation: Student Exhibition & Sale of Furniture – 17th & 18th June 2013

INVITATION from ANSELM & ANTONIA FRASER Student Exhibition and Sale of Furniture Monday 17th or Tuesday 18th June 2013 6 – 8 pm Wine and strawberries. Admire and buy inspiring, classical and contemporary furniture, all created by the school’s 20 talented students. The UK’s leading furniture school. Developing creative careers in wood. We look forward …

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Some of the Things that Make our Furniture Design Course Stand Out

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Do you dream of building a rewarding career in professional furniture design and restoration? There are still some places on our furniture making and furniture restoration course starting this October 2013. Our feedback suggests that our courses are that little bit different: 1. We teach you up to 80 woodworking techniques in just 9 months …

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Hide your whisky with a ‘Prohibition Table’: see the video

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Anselm Fraser has just the table to hide his drinking habits from his wife; his American ‘prohibition table’ allows the occasional dram to be sipped in peace away from prying eyes. Slange Var! (‘cheers’ in Scotland). Watch our Woodworkers Wednesday video of Anselm demonstrating how his bottle of bottle of Famous Grouse whisky can be …

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U3A Brave Arctic Conditions to Visit Furniture School

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We were delighted that our visitors from the U3A (University of the Third Age) went ahead with their visit to the Chippendale School of Furniture last Saturday despite the Arctic conditions. U3A are self-help, self-managed lifelong learning co-operatives for older people, providing opportunities for members to share learning experiences in a wide range of interest …

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International Furniture School wins Chamber of Commerce Family Business Award

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The Chippendale International School of Furniture has just won a local Chamber of Commerce Award for a successful Family Business by “demonstrating sustained success across a broad range of measures”. The award is sponsored by local accountants and tax advisors, Springfords, and the ceremony was hosted by Queen Margaret University.

Anselm Fraser and his wife Antonia set up the international furniture school near Gifford more than 25 years ago. More recently, they have been joined by their son, Jamie, who graduated from the furniture school this June and is now one of five tutors.

“The school’s success means that for the second year running we have a full student roll for our furniture making and restoration course”, says Anselm Fraser. “Forty per cent of this year’s new students come from overseas, including Japan, Malaysia, South Korea, Barbados, Mexico, Canada, New Zealand and South Africa.

A Swiss chalet. Nothing but pine.

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Former Chippendale School of Furniture student Matthew Meyerhoff and father Doug, Graham Davies (the school’s senior tutor), and Anselm Fraser spent two weeks during the summer in the Swiss Alps renovating a derelict, 250 year old, pine chalet. The experience proved what the Swiss can do with ‘nothing but pine’ available as a building material.