Ernest Gimson as a designer.
From: The Magazine Antiques
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Date: 6/1/2002
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Author: Greensted, Mary
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) ...
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