Craft and Design Exhibition

Craft and Design: Ernest Gimson and the Arts & Crafts Movement New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester 8th November 2008 - 1st March 2009

Leicester-born Ernest Gimson was one of the major designers of the late 19th/early 20th centuries. He worked in London and the Cotswolds until his death in 1919 but his reputation extended to Germany, Scandinavia and the USA. His work - furniture, metalwork, embroidery, plasterwork and architecture - represents the William Morris-inspired Arts & Crafts Movement at its most pure and has continued to inspire designer-makers worldwide up to the present day.

This exhibition showcases Leicester's important collections relating to Ernest Gimson and the Arts & Crafts Movement, together with key objects loaned from public and private collections. It is also an opportunity to reassess the Movement and to look at its continuing impact on craft and design. The museum is a two minute walk from the Best Western Belmont Hotel, the former family home of the Gimson family, down a beautiful tree lined walkway.

Free admission.

We have special rates for the exhibition (subject to availability)
please call 0116 254 4773 and ask for the special Gimson rate.