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  • please please please tell me that your Eric Gill was the same Eric Gill who designed my favourite typeface. . .

    The House In Sandy Gate Lane Pt. 2 Gordie 2008

  • The curving Midland is an Art Deco gem by architect Oliver Hill, complete with friezes by Eric Gill, white stucco sweeps and rotundas, and hard-edged jutting ledges, as if it is sticking its thoroughbred chin out to sea.

    Restaurant review: Midland Hotel 2011

  • Now, I'm just curious about who this Eric Gill was and how ArtSparker seems to have inside info as to some objectionable facet of his personality.

    Space: Sans-Serif Fresca 2010

  • Perhaps Mr. Odou is going to suggest to us that Chesterton, Belloc and Pius XI were all pedophiles too, all because Eric Gill was?

    Who founded Distributism? A response to TIA Athanasius 2008

  • But it will be chiefly for what he did to further the revival of craftsmanship that hc will be remembered, as Mr James Norbury said, spealung of Pepler together with Eric Gill and William Morris, in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts in January 1951.

    H.D.C. Pepler Part One 2008

  • Chesterton, Belloc, Eric Gill and other Distributists ... and lose all sight of The Little Way.

    The Way Of Love/1 2008

  • In 1915, because of the difficulty of bringing up a family in London, Pcpler decided on the move to Ditchling -where Eric Gill was already settled.

    H.D.C. Pepler Part One 2008

  • Let us agree wholeheartedly that Eric Gill did what the author of this article alleges, and let us also agree Mr. Gill's art is profane and abominable, and that Catholics should be rightly indignant over his life.

    Who founded Distributism? A response to TIA Athanasius 2008

  • In London he settled at Hammersmith Terrace, where he became the friend of Edward Johnston, through whom he was brought into contact with Eric Gill, Roger Fry, and Cobden-Sanderson.

    H.D.C. Pepler Part One 2008

  • When he came to Ditchling, he became a member of the Guild of St. Joseph and St. Dominic, established by Eric Gill and Hilary Pepler to foster Catholic craftsmanship in theory and especially in pratice; for the Guild, “the principle of individual human responsibility being a fundamental of Catholic doctrine, and this principle involving the principles of ownership, workmen should own their tools, their workshops, and the product of their work.”

    A Miscellany of Distributists 2008

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