Contemporaries of Gimson and the Barnsleys

A number of contemporary designers developed work in the same idiom. These included Arthur Romney Green who started designing and making furniture in Haslemere, Surrey in 1904. He visited Gimson’s workshop at Sapperton in February that year. Three other twentieth-century furniture makers worked for him in his workshop at Christchurch, Hampshire. These were Eric Sharpe who subsequently set up his own workshop at Martyr Worthy in Hampshire, Stanley W Davies who moved to Windermere in the Lake District, and Robin Nance who settled in St Ives, Cornwall.

 

Other Arts & Crafts designers influenced by their work included Charles Spooner and Ambrose Heal.