Ballet in wood
Last week saw another of our popular one-week introductory courses.
Chippendale School of Furniture
Drinks all round for top Chippendale School furniture design students
A furniture designer from the west of Scotland has won a top award from the Chippendale International School of Furniture. The Chippendale School is regarded as one of Europe’s premier furniture design schools and runs intensive furniture design courses and furniture restoration courses. Ali Wilson, who was brought up in East Anglia, studied architecture in …
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Learning the 4,500 year old Egyptian art of gilding in Scotland
Richard Walker, owner of Watergild Studios in Portsmouth, Hampshire, works as a freelance master gilder on private commissions as well as teaching the art of gilding at a variety of locations across the UK and online. For the last two weeks, Richard has been teaching a gilding course to students at the Chippendale School of …
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Chippendale School Student Dreams of Boat Building
This blog is by Fergus McCoss who was a deckhand on super yachts but his long term plan is becoming a woodworker. After graduating from the Chippendale School of Furniture, he dreams of building boats in the style of 1960’s Riva Aquarama speedboats! I started in Palma, did Mediterranean loops, Atlantic crossings and Caribbean routes. …
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Workshop improvements give students more bench space
Anselm wanted to ensure his tutors were kept busy during the summer holidays so they’ve been refurbishing the main workshop and creating more space round student benches.
“Because we are a not-for-profit organisation, we are continually reinvesting in our buildings and facilities. Every year we make improvements. Our students wanted more space round their benches so we decided to make our workshop even bigger,” says Anselm Fraser.
Chippendale School Students Learn to Make Britain’s National Chair, the ‘Windsor Chair’
Tom Thackray, the UK’s leading Windsor chair maker, has just spent a week teaching woodworking students at the Chippendale International School of Furniture how to make Windsor chairs. He first met Anselm when he was running his Thomas Chippendale School in South Carolina then Oregon, and has been coming to Scotland to the Chippendale School …
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