Ernest Gimson Architect

Ernest William Gimson (pronounced 'Jimson') (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.

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Ernest Gimson
Birth dateDecember 21, 1864
Birth place
Leicester
Date of deathAugust 12, 1919
Place of death
Sapperton

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