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Article: Ernest Gimson as a designer.
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- The Magazine Antiques
- Article date:
- June 1, 2002
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Ernest William Gimson (P1. I) was one of the most inspiring and influential designers of the British arts and crafts movement. His contemporary, the architect William Richard Lethaby (1857-1931), described his furniture as "one kind of 'perfect', that is it was useful and right, pleasantly shaped and finished, good enough but not too good for ordinary use." (1) In the 1930s the architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner called Gimson "the greatest of the English artist-craftsmen." (2) More recently Peter Stansky singled him out as "arguably the best English furniture maker of the period." (3) Gimson's strong creative streak, his modesty, and his unassuming nature prevented ...
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Article: Fashioned with art and craft.
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March 16, 2005 ;
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... ... standards in industry. Their zeal led to the founding of the Art Workers' Guild in 1884 and then the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society ... most notably in the Barnsley brothers' joint venture with Ernest Gimson, and CR Ashbee's Guild of Handicraft, in a workshop that ...
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