FURNITURE DESIGN SCHOOL, WOODWORKING COURSES & CLASSES
David Savage is a bespoke furniture designer and maker with over 30 years experience. Here at Rowden Farm woodworking Atelier we offer professional standard woodworking courses and furniture design courses at our internationally renowned woodworking school, as well as designing and making bespoke luxury furniture.
Bespoke Handmade Furniture
"Furniture With Soul"
David's recently published, critically acclaimed, book "Furniture With Soul" delves deep into the minds of his favourite fine furniture designers and makers. "Like the furniture inside it, it asks to be touched, read and enjoyed"...
"Andromeda"
Partner to the heroic Perseus feature chair. Blonde, sensuous, and curvaceous; the essence of femininity. This is Andromeda, one of my more elegant and dramatic Designer Chairs, not just made for sitting; she is made to be looked at and admired...
'Gracie' and Her sisters
This is "Gracie" and her sisters. A bespoke dining chairs set, in walnut wood as well as sycamore, all in the same family, all similar but each different...
Luxury, pure luxury
This is genuine luxury furniture. Furniture Designer, David Savage's highest quality lamp tables made only for you. It simply is not possible to just buy this furniture. You need to get involved, you need to play a part in its creation...
A Loving Story...
Two individuals, perfect apart, come together to create a new identity. A relationship. Work with furniture designer David savage to develop a Love Chair as a wedding gift or as an anniversary present to cherish every day...
"Million Dollar Table"
What I want is a table that looks a Million Dollars. My client pointed to a dining room visible from the Carrara marble floored entrance hall. It was to sit there all dark and magnificent; a highly polished contemporary dining table for people to envy...
Fine Furniture Maker Blog
Furniture Making Student Lands Top Job
A fantastic modern furniture maker, already well accomplished in woodworking; Doug Willaims has used the skills he gained on our furniture making courses to secure a top job with a world leading furniture making workshop...
Learn French Polishing - Kits and Tutorial DVDs
We're pleased to be able to announce the release of our brand new French Polishing tutorial DVD. We have the standard DVD but we also have a fantastic new French Polishing Starter Kit Follow the link to find more information and get practicing as soon as possible.
Woodworking School gets a visit from Waywood Furniture
who joined us here at Rowden Woodworking Atelier to give the furniture making course students and several select furniture makers, woodworking and furniture making seminar on his experience in woodworking and furniture making.
Woodworking Summer School
The first two students on our brand new woodworking summer school courses have sawn, cut, dovetailed, and polished themselves silly, walking away with some beautiful objects and top quality box making skills. Go and read about their experiences and see the brilliant work they produced on their short woodworking courses.
Woodworking School gets a visit from BARK furniture
The directors of BARK furniture, two former students of our woodworking courses, paid a visit to the woodworking school to tell us about their mid century modern furniture design and starting a furniture making business.
Furniture Designer - Lury Furniture
Jean-Damien left us a few months ago, and now he'll be exhibiting in a new show called 'Mid-Century Modern' - Take a look at the bespoke furniture designs, made while he was here on a one year furniture making course...
A critical article on modern furniture making tools
I don’t write very much about tools these days, having annoyed too many toolmakers, and I don’t find that magazine editors have the testicular fortitude to print my pieces. However, I was recently asked...
From Carpenter to Bespoke Furniture Maker
Ross Norgate is a young ambitious bespoke furniture maker who came to us as a fully skilled joiner and carpenter. His objective was to expand his skills and make more delicate and complicated furniture than his joinery skills allowed him...
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