Ballet in wood
Last week saw another of our popular one-week introductory courses.
bespoke furniture design
Brexit divides cabinet
Stephen Barr, one of our recent professional course graduates, first came to the school on a one-week introductory course. It’s a good way for potential professional woodworkers to see if they really do have sawdust in their veins. And if they do, and enrol onto our professional course, the introductory course fees are deducted. It’s …
Woodwork calling
Paul Hartman was this year’s recipient of the Public’s Choice Award. It’s an award that is voted on by visitors to the school’s professional course graduation exhibition in Edinburgh. It’s a real accolade because those visitors are representative of the buying public. Paul, from Alberta, Canada already had construction and carpentry experience when he came …
The value and cost of furniture making
Anselm Fraser, principal, the Chippendale school’s principal, writes in The Woodworker magazine. Oscar Wilde, the 19th century playwright, expressed it perfectly. In his play, Lady Windermere’s Fan, he wrote that a cynic is “a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.” Like much of Oscar Wilde’s work, his comedy hides a biting …
Christmas at Chippendale
An immersive course at the Chippendale school involves a great deal of hard work…for most of the time. But we also like to mix hard work with fun because what we learn with pleasure we never forget. For example, being an international school, we celebrate the various festivals and national days that are commemorated in …
