summer sunburst – woodworking tips
We’re edging closer and closer to the summer so here’s a little woodworking tip from Daren Millman on sunburst veneer selection… They sometimes tell in the books about using mirrors to see what a...
View ArticlePraise for our students’ creativity
David, I haven’t forgotten about you. I don’t go on Facebook often but I did today, and I saw a few posts by you, and that took me to your website, where I have been noodling around for more than an...
View ArticleBARK comes to Rowden
Bark Furniture www.barkfurniture.com is such a great name for a young inventive furniture making company. Here at Rowden Workshops we were fortunate to be able to get the directors of BARK to come and...
View ArticleNew student work
Sandra Bicknell and Christopher Struett have now finished their furniture making courses here at Rowden workshops. Before leaving we helped them by getting photographs of their work for portfolios to...
View Articleshort course student Ludovic Levieil
A fantastic mail from a former short woodworking course student of Rowden Atelier came through recently. yar tis: Hello David, I am Ludovic Levieil a French guy from Nice that visited the Rowden farm...
View ArticleFurniture Making Student Lands Top Job
I have heard today that Doug Williams, who trained on our woodworking courses about two or three years ago, before going to the Edward Barnsley Workshop, has just been chosen to work as a Furniture...
View ArticleConfidence in furniture design
Ian has displayed a huge amount of self belief in his time here at Rowden, never settling for anything less than perfect, and pushing himself to tackle design choices with confidence. Take a look at...
View ArticleDesign and make your own desk in twelve weeks
Just to show you what can be done in a short time if you work your socks off. Steve Jepson is a skilled interior designer who was working in Singapore but striving for the feeling of doing something...
View ArticleWorkshop Visit to Young and Norgate
Yesterday we had the pleasure of visiting Young and Norgate an up and comming furniture making company in south devon. its not often a small hardworking workshop will allow asmall group of students,...
View ArticleSummer School 2015 at Rowden with Chris Schwarz WEEK ONE
AN IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE: TWO WEEKS IN ENGLISH SUMMER COUNTRYSIDE, MAKING A BEAUTIFUL TOOL CHEST, WITH HAND TOOLS, GUIDED BY EXPERTS. ONLY A SMALL HAND FULL OF PLACES. Come to Rowden in beautiful Devon...
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