Furniture Making
Discover our furniture making courses which take place primarily on site at Highgrove Gardens at our specialist school of furniture.
About our programmes
Our furniture making courses are rooted in the belief that timber is a sustainable material for buildings and furniture. We believe that if furniture makers understand the growing, harvesting, sawing and drying of timber, and its craft and production processes, then they can more effectively design and build furniture that is beautiful, functional and long-lasting. Our aim is to initiate a change in thinking as we educate designers, makers, landowners, councils and the public, to think holistically about how we value and use wood.
Browse Furniture Making courses
Courses for designers, makers, landowners, councils and the public, teaching holistic thinking about how we value and use wood.
The Snowdon School of Furniture
The Snowdon School of Furniture, curated by our Vice President Lord Snowdon and located at Barley Court on the Highgrove estate, delivers two flagship courses for designers and makers, focused on developing furniture making skills using British timber.
The CREATE programme aims to bridge the gap between further education and the workplace by sharing a modern approach to traditional skills and exposure to industry through workshop trips and visiting lecturers, whilst the Snowdon Summer School is an intensive, seven-day masterclass for existing makers.
Lord Snowdon“There is such satisfaction to be enjoyed from having a hand in influencing the life cycle of that raw material: developing a greater understanding of the materials with which I (you) work, appreciating their provenance, and then turning them into something beautiful to be enjoyed and treasured.”
