Take home your handmade wood chair
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Take home your handmade wood chair

Cerdeira
No workshop, os participantes vão aprender as técnicas básicas de trabalho com madeira verde e ainda a construir a sua própria bancada.

On the Green Woodworking Course learn how to make a wooden chair by hand freely and following your own design. We will use freshly cut round wood to create the seat, legs and backrest for your creative and unique chair.

Over these six days you will learn all the basic woodworking techniques, including carving the wood by hand, working the various pieces to a beautiful, delicate finish and then putting them together. We also teach you how to build your own bench, a knowledge that will allow you to continue practising your new craft when you return home.

"Free form" refers to a style of work that uses irregular and curved pieces of wood. On this course you will learn how to drill and make a perfect join of these elements. It is a course for people who want to make something unique and personal, something that is an expression of their personality.

Peter Lanyon presents himself as a designer and maker of wooden furniture, a teacher for green woodworking and a community project coordinator, but he is so much more.

He combines many years of experience of working as a designer and woodworker, both from a workshop based apprenticeship and at an academic level in the field of design and technologies, with countless jobs in public spaces and exhibitions with a great pleasure in sharing his knowledge and teaching, and that is what makes this artist week so unique.

Schedule:

  • May 10th: 4pm to 6pm
  • May 11th-16th: 10am to 6pm (two hours lunch break)

Conditions:

• Enrollments up to 1 month before the course start date.

The course fee includes:

• Integration in a small workgroup (from 5 to 8 participants);
• Training 5-6 hours a day, spoken in English and with support in Portuguese;
• Studio open 12 hours a day;
• Welcome dinner;
• All the materials needed for the course;
• Free accommodation in our shared residences during the course (upon availability). The residences are equipped with a dormitory, kitchen, shared bathrooms, washing machine, towels, bed linen and wi-fi;
• 10% discount on the base rate when booking an individual house (minimum of 2 nights). The base rate refers to a stay of 2 people and includes breakfast, equipped kitchen, towels, bed linen and wi-fi.

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