 He had no idea that he would stay there for the rest of his life.Ibberson had recommended him to visit the workshops of Ernest Gimson, who soon took him on as an ‘improver’, or unpaid assistant and put him to work at making sketches from life and studying the crafts of modelled plasterwork, woodcarving and design for metalwork.For Gimson, architecture and the crafts were vitally interdependent.