INVITATION from ANSELM & ANTONIA FRASER Student Exhibition and Sale of Furniture Monday 17th or Tuesday 18th June 2013 6 – 8 pm Wine and strawberries. Admire and buy inspiring, classical and contemporary furniture, all created by the school’s 20 talented students. The UK’s leading furniture school. Developing creative careers in wood. We look forward [...]
[ Read More... ]Some of the Things that Make our Furniture Design Course Stand Out
May 23rd, 2013Do you dream of building a rewarding career in professional furniture design and restoration? There are still some places on our furniture making and furniture restoration course starting this October 2013. Our feedback suggests that our courses are that little bit different: 1. We teach you up to 80 woodworking techniques in just 9 months [...]
[ Read More... ]Vicente’s journey from Mexico to the Chippendale School of Furniture
April 5th, 2013This is a furniture student blog by Vicente Ridaura-Harvey from Tampico in north-east Mexico, five hours from the US border near the Gulf of Mexico. The photographs show the wonderful ‘throne’, one of the pieces created by Vicente at the Chippendale School of Furniture. Vicente explains that the arms and curved back of his chair [...]
[ Read More... ]Chippendale School Students Learn Wood Veneering from New York Furniture Artist, Scott Grove
March 14th, 2013Scott Grove, an American artist, sculptor and woodworker, has just delivered an inspiring, week long wood veneering course to the 20 students at the Chippendale International School of Furniture. “I was very impressed by how much the students achieve while they’re here and how ambitious they are with their pieces of furniture. It’s a wonderfully [...]
[ Read More... ]Hide your whisky with a ‘Prohibition Table’: see the video
March 6th, 2013Anselm Fraser has just the table to hide his drinking habits from his wife; his American ‘prohibition table’ allows the occasional dram to be sipped in peace away from prying eyes. Slange Var! (‘cheers’ in Scotland). Watch our Woodworkers Wednesday video of Anselm demonstrating how his bottle of bottle of Famous Grouse whisky can be [...]
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