The Chippendale International School of Furniture has been praised by Education Scotland for delivering “high quality learning and teaching,” The school is a Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) centre and offers two Higher National (HN) units as part of the school’s full-time award in Furniture Design, Making and Restoration programme. In its report, Education Scotland also
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A student from Russia has won top honours at the Chippendale International School of Furniture, for the first time in the school’s 31-year history. Iana Molotok from St Petersburg won Student of the Year at the prestigious school, against competition from other students from the UK, Canada, the USA, Ireland, France, Germany, Australia and New
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It’s a coffee table that thinks it’s a motorbike, and it’s the creation of a new Falkirk furniture designer. Ronnie Payne, a former RAF technician and police officer, has set up Ripplewood Furniture to design and make new furniture and carry out restoration projects. His Revv-It table was the centrepiece of his graduation portfolio from
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It’s been a week of double celebration at the Chippendale International School of Furniture. The school, between Haddington and Gifford, is Scotland’s only furniture design school and has an international reputation as a place of teaching excellence. This week saw the school’s 2015-16 students graduate, with Iana Molotok from St Petersburg becoming the first Russian
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This year we are holding two exhibitions and sales of fine furniture, one in Edinburgh and the other at The Chippendale International School of Furniture – the details of which are as follows: EXHIBITION AND SALE OF FINE FURNITURE – EDINBURGH AT GREYFRIARS KIRK, 2 GREYFRIARS PLACE, EDINBURGH, EH1 2QQ Monday 13th June from 6pm-8pm
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In the last of his series of articles on modern woodworking, Anselm Fraser, principal of the Chippendale International School of Furniture, looks at the thorny issue of how to price bespoke furniture. Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, the 19th century playwright, would have understood the problem completely. In his play, Lady Windermere’s Fan, he writes
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