David Savage
I have been a cabinetmaker and furniture designer now for over 25 years. I wasn't always going to be a cabinet maker. I trained to be an artist, a painter, reading Fine Art at Ruskin School University, followed by a Post-Graduate degree at the Royal Academy Schools in London (Europe's oldest and one of the most distinguished art colleges in the world). I learnt my cabinetmaking a little later in two commercial workshops in Spitalfields, London, where I paid the principals for the privilege of working there and learning in a commercial situation. It is to a great degree this experience of learning in a real working situation that I would like to pass on to you. Not a school or college but an "Atalier" where everyone from master craftsman through journeyman to apprentice is learning at different levels and from each other.
Are we any good?
In all modesty, yes. I was elected to Membership of the Devon Guild of Craftsmen in 1983 and in 1989 to the Fellowship of the Society of Designer Craftsmen. I have exhibited in many countries and my workshop has been selected as one of the top 20 workshops in the United Kingdom to be included in the book 'Furniture for the 21st Century' that has recently been published in Europe and the United States.
Website: http://www.finefurnituremaker.com/
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