pugin, who supplied the first designs for hardmans, was thoroughly absorbed in the medieval and was a designer of the highest order. he produced designs of every description- churches, windows, furniture, vestments, vessels, tiles, jewellery and, for the interiors of the houses of parliament, gothic thrones, gothic hat-stands and gothic ashtrays. with his busy regime, he increasingly relied upon his talented son-in-law, powell, to provide the designs for stained glass.