Making success happen
Anselm Fraser, principal, writing in The Woodworker magazine
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Spalted console
A simple fact about bespoke furniture is that good design sells. That’s a lesson that Fiona Gilfillan, one of recent professional course graduates has learned. During her course, she made a spalted Sycamore and Elm console table, which sold at the graduate exhibition. She was then commissioned by another customer to make a second console …
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 …
Holding a mirror to love
Steve Tripp’s journey to the Chippendale school and our professional course took four years to plan. Steve, a former IT consultant from Minnesota, finally made the move, with his wife also enrolling at a university in Edinburgh. While he was busy learning his new woodworking trade, she completed a Masters in Arts, Culture and Festival …
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 …
