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I agree, While I like much of FLW's work, it's the work like that of CRM and Earnest William Gimson that really call out to me from the period. They achieve their goal without the heft of FLW. Gimson's cabinets, in particular, have an incredible amount of detail without complicating the design.
Gimson's use of ornament, while intricate in pattern and execution, was always naturalistic, lively and never overwhelming in scale. Although I rather disdained the Byzantine and Baroque in my previous post, I can actually absorb a whopping dose of the ornate, especially in the Belle
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I saw a cabinet by Dunhill claimed to have been commissioned by him, on ebay, and being a Dunhill, it's gorgeous.
When I go, my 1934 Dunhill Liverpool goes with me.