THURSDAY EVENING COURSE: Furniture Making and Restoration
Details
Dates: 09 January 2025 to 13 February 2025
Time: 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Price
£180 per person
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Advanced booking is essential through the ‘Book Here’ button above.
If you would prefer to pay by cheque or cash, please contact us and we will make arrangements for you as needed.
Price includes tuition, basic materials and tools but extra materials are available for an extra cost during the course.
Places are strictly limited to 6 people to allow all attendees to get the best learning experience and time with the tutor.
If you do not have the means to pay for a ticket, we have an access budget that enables us to provide free places for people with low incomes, who are unemployed or have other accessibility needs. Please contact us to register.
Venue
The Farmer’s Arms, Lowick Green – LA12 8DT
Join award winning designer and maker Tom Philipson in this rewarding and fascinating six-week evening class.
Each student will receive their own late victorian Hepplewhite dining chair which they will carefully restore to take home at the end of the course. Over 6 weeks you will learn woodwork and restoration skills to reinvigorate your chair so it can be used for another 100 years!
This course is suitable for those who wish to repair and care for their own furniture or those wishing to buy and fix up furniture for them selves or to sell on to others. Some basic transferrable hand skills desired but not essential.
Course Outline:
Week one
Restoration, assessing for buying antique furniture
Week two
Careful disassembly of the chair (useful to see construction)
Week three
Structural restoration of all components
Week four
Patching and upholstery as requires
Week five
Re-assembly, clamping and gluing
Week six
Finishes such as staining, polishing, and waxing
Students are encouraged to use the self-directed Drop-In Making Days in the workshop during the six weeks to progress their stool project and work on other furniture design/build projects where a technician will be on hand. These workshops are non-booked and work on a drop in basis. They’re priced at £10 an hour plus an additional cost if machining is required by a technician.
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About the tutor:
Training as a cabinet maker at 16 years old, Tom then went on to study furniture conservation and restoration and has worked in the industry for over 30 years. Drawing on his experience, he moved into furniture and product design, working with Grizedale Arts to create bamboo implements, multi-purpose furniture, display systems, garden gates and table ware for The Farmer’s Arms, Lawson Park and GA’s many local, national and international projects. Now the workshop manager at The Farmer’s Arms, Tom has developed The Farmer’s Arms’ mould-based pottery techniques and delivers workshops in crafts-based product development.
