Chippendale Society access to other Chippendale collections, at Harewood House and Dumfries House. Chippendale furniture is highly valued; a padouk cabinet that was auctioned by Christies in 2008 sold for £2,729,250 (USD 5,324,763). In January 2013 the BBC produced a series entitled ""Carved With Love; The Genius of British Woodwork"", the second episode of which featured Chippendale's life, work and influence. Chippendale Society The Chippendale Society is a registered charity in Britain, that works to preserve and promote the heritage of Thomas Chippendale, one of Britain's most notable furniture makers. The society was founded in 1965 in Otley in Yorkshire, England, Chippendale's
Gordon Russell (designer) by C. R. Ashbee from east London to Chipping Campden. Following service as an officer in World War I, for which he was awarded the Military Cross in 1918, he became a furniture maker and designer. In 1925 Russell won a Gold Medal at the Paris Exhibition with a cabinet, with internal drawers lined with boxwood, ebony and laburnum, and valued in 2013 at £50,000 to £60,000. He designed the "Stow" range of furniture in the mid 1920s. During World War II he was instrumental in developing utility furniture as Chairman of the government's Utility Furniture Design Panel. In 1943