For the first time, seven talented designers from the renowned Chippendale International School of Furniture will be exhibiting at the New Designers Exhibition in London in July. The newly-qualified designers are from the UK, USA and South Korea, and will be exhibiting handmade and uniquely designed pieces of furniture. The Chippendale school is recognised as …
Rachael Hamilton MSP for Scotland South recently visited the Chippendale International School of Furniture, meeting staff and students who this year come from nine different countries. Earlier this year, Education Scotland published a highly positive report on the school, which has established an international reputation for furniture design, restoration and making. Among the students she …
Five gifted students from the Chippendale International School of Furniture will be exhibiting their work at the Scottish parliament this summer. The furniture school, between Haddington and Gifford, is a place of teaching excellence with students coming from around to the world. This year’s students come from the UK, USA, Austria, Australia, Poland, India, South …
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The third and final term of our students’ nine-month furniture design course was kick-started with a week of intensive woodworking, learning the art of Windsor chair making under the guidance of Britain’s leading Windsor chair makers, Tom Thackray and his son-in-law Steve. The making of Windsor chairs involves a whole range of woodworking skills that, once …
An interview with Seonaid Denholm who set up a furniture making business in a Chippendale Incubator unit after graduating from the Chippendale Furniture School.
“I fell out of a tree aged 9. Here I am, 14 years later, a few less broken bones but still playing around with wood!”
What sort of work were you doing before becoming a student at the Chippendale School of Furniture? Why did you choose furniture making?
“Prior to September 2010 I was a studying economic and social history at the University of Manchester, and working part time as a chef. Had I graduated a few years earlier the career path would have been very different; I would have a PGDE and be teaching primary school (well I would have hoped to have been). The pessimistic state of the economy dictated otherwise.”
An interview with Charles Oldham, fine wood carver and member of the Master Carvers’ Association.
Charles Oldham, a master wood carver, believes passionately in preserving the ancient skills he learned from an older generation of carvers; teaching woodworking students at the Chippendale International School of Furniture provides an opportunity to pass on these skills.
Charles Oldham specialises in restoration, architectural wood carving, letter cutting, carved and gilded ornaments, and gesso cutting. Charles has worked on a number of high profile restoration projects amongst them Windsor Castle, Hampton Court Palace, Spenser House and Tredegar House.
