Ernest Gimson
Home > Directory > Ernest GimsonErnest William Gimson (Leicester, 21 December 1864 - Sapperton, 12 August 1919) was an English furniture designer and architect. Gimson was described by the art critic Nikolaus Pevsner as 'the greatest of the English architect-designers'. Today his reputation is securely established as one of the most influential designers of the English Arts and Crafts movement in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. (Source: Wikipedia - see link below for complete article)
The Leicester Museums have a good website detailing more about him and showing some of the items he made - well worth a look - see links below.
Edward Gardiner made items for him amongst others (source: William Morris Gallery)
Links
- Ernest Gimson on Wikipedia
- Leicester Museums more detail about him as a person
- Leicester Museums examples of what he made
- William Morris Gallery
- Ernest Gimson on Wikipedia
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