Ernest Gimson designed for a large number of different crafts. His first designs were for buildings, plasterwork and embroidery. In 1891 he experimented with furniture design for the company he had formed with friends, Kenton and Co. He also designed chairs. In 1901 he and his friend Ernest Barnsley set up a furniture workshop near Sapperton, where they lived. He took over the workshop himself in 1905. He also designed metalwork and set up a blacksmith’s shop in Sapperton in 1903.
The Wilson holds over 1500 of these designs. They are a mix of different stages of the design process, from rough and more developed sketches, to worked up drawings to send to clients, to working drawings to be used by his workmen.
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Design for an embroidered runner, 1890s.
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Design for the Leasowes, Gimson's own house in Sapperton, front elevation, about 1902.
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Design by Gimson and Ernest Barnsley for a bedstead, 17 May 1902.
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Design for a rush-seated chair, early 20th century.
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Design for an altar cross in ebony, inlaid with silver and mother-of-pearl, 7 March 1912.
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Design for wrought iron fire dogs, 12 May 1904.
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