Facts:   - death date: 12 august 1919      - birth date: 21 december 1864    - name: ernest gimson    - death place: sapperton , england    - birth place: leicester , england   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of ernest gimson .
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ernest william gimson -lrb- pronounced ` jimson ' -rrb- -lrb- 21 december 1864 in leicester -- 12 august 1919 in sapperton -rrb- 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 .