Pricey Bronte furniture?

[eighthobstruction]

....i had thought of that ....but i thought people would forgive me the inaccurracy....ah well tabula rasa start again....{yeah know it means a slate)....jeezzz I just wanna free to be me....

[ardcarp]

My exam piece was a small writing table, with cabinet (and secret drawer)

You got to do woodwork at school? Lucky thing. At my alma mater it was only lads deemed incapable of doing Latin who got all the fun. They re-joined us...exotic creatures...for normal lessons with that impossibly exotic aroma of animal glue about their persons.

[french frank]

You got to do woodwork at school? Lucky thing. At my alma mater it was only lads deemed incapable of doing Latin who got all the fun. They re-joined us...exotic creatures...for normal lessons with that impossibly exotic aroma of animal glue about their persons.

What do you mean at school????? I did it about 15 years ago! C&G 555.

[teamsaint]

My one term of woodwork at school, an utterly hopeless ask in my case, ( woodwork, not school)the project was to create..( and perhaps they had the target audience right)...,... An ashtray !!

the world was truly simpler then......

[LeMartinPecheur]

ah well tabla raza start again....{yeah know it means a slate)....

Actually eighth, I think you're doing something rather drastic to some Indian drums...

[ardcarp]

What do you mean at school????? I did it about 15 years ago! C&G 555.

Ooops. Beg pardon.

[eighthobstruction]

Actually eighth, I think you're doing something rather drastic to some Indian drums...

....Ah yes....I knew I should have looked at my Arvo Part CD....don't blame me I'm Bristolian - Tableraazer....

....Oh well I never did have a reputation ref words that was there to be lost anyway....

[french frank]

Ooops. Beg pardon.

AND ANOTHER THING ...

(It wasn't 'woodwork' - it was a two-year specialist course in cabinet-making...)

[ardcarp]

Trying to keep the discussion on track (or at least making a pretence of it) could not a highly skilled cabinet maker such as yourself (grovel, grovel) have been called upon to make an exact replica of the Bronte writing desk/table which could have taken pride of place at Howarth thus allowing the not inconsiderable sum of half-a-million-plus quid to be used for worthier things, e.g. courses for children to write...or even make furniture? Before my sentences become any longer, I'll revert to type, digress, and display the results of my disappointing search for details of City and Guilds 555....

https://www.facebook.com/pages/City-Guilds-555-Furniture-Making/171221179594715

where 0 people liked the topic, and

http://www.slideshare.net/peoplecert/brochure-customer-service

which has nothing to do with cabinet-making but at least might appeal to your linguistic side.

[french frank]

where 0 people liked the topic, and

No, because according to the recommendations I get from the link: it's too much concerned with Australian politics

which has nothing to do with cabinet-making but at least might appeal to your linguistic side.

Businnes skills? I suspect a course that , at least in my day, taught things like cutting secret mitre dovetails by hand hasn't really caught up with the Facebook age.

Well, it's knowing that it was a Brontë writing desk that matters. Owt else would be fraudillent. Otherwise they could go to the recycling depot

[ardcarp]

Well, it's knowing that it was a Brontë writing desk that matters. Owt else would be fraudillent

...but no worse than this, surely:

http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk/about/press-media/press-releases/dulwich-replaces-old-master-painting-with-replica-%E2%80%98made-in-china%E2%80%99/

[french frank]

...but no worse than this, surely:

http://www.dulwichpicturegallery.org...hina%E2%80%99/

But in the Dulwich case there is no attempt to pass off one thing as another, but to challenge people to see the difference.

The desk issues does touch on the subject of 'the role of art as commodity', even though there is also the unique 'historic' value of the desk to consider.

But price is dictated by the availability of a buyer: in this case, the desk was worth that amount to the Haworth museum. Not everyone would have paid it.