Richard Jones Furniture

Harrogate Shows

The Furniture Department of Leeds College of Art and Design have been offered a stand at The North of England Woodworking and Power Tool Show for several years. The show takes place in a pavilion at the Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate near the end of November each year. It is a venue for makers and suppliers of tools, machinery, computer software, wood finishes, etc, to display and sell their products to amateur and professional woodworkers.

The show organisers invite specialist woodworkers and others to demonstrate methods of work and techniques at stands set aside for these activities. Craftspeople demonstrate jointing techniques, turning, carving, polishing and so on; there are usually other craftspeople demonstrating, for example, traditional Windsor chair making, and a chair bodger demonstrates use of a pole lathe and other tools of that trade, eg, a shaving horse.

Leeds College of Art and Design are the only educational institution that take a stand at the show. It is a great way to meet others in the trade, network with employers, see what is new and interesting and, most importantly, helps maintain a high profile of the college, the department and our students in the north of England-- a high profile does help us to recruit students to our courses, although it is difficult to quantify exactly how many. Certainly it as an opportunity to meet potential students face-to-face outside the confines of the college buildings.

Links to more teaching and student work pages

2008 Student Gallery
2009 Student Gallery
2010 Student Gallery
2010. The Thorp Perrow Arboretum Live Project

2009 Stand

2008 Stand

2007 Stand

2006 Stand

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