The newly revised and updated Charleston: A Bloomsbury House &
Garden is the definitive publication on the Bloomsbury Group's
rural outpost in the heart of the Sussex Downs. "It's absolutely
perfect...", wrote the artist Vanessa Bell when she moved to
Charleston in 1916. For fifty years, Vanessa and her fellow painter
Duncan Grant lived, loved and worked in this isolated Sussex
farmhouse, together transforming the house and garden into an
extraordinary work of art and creating a rural retreat for the
Bloomsbury group. Now, Vanessa's son, Quentin Bell, and her
granddaughter Virginia Nicholson tell the inside story of their
family home, linking it with some of the pioneering cultural
figures who spent time there, including Vanessa's sister Virginia
Woolf, the economist Maynard Keynes, the writer Lytton Strachey and
the art critic Roger Fry. Taking readers through each room of the
house - from Clive Bell's Study, the Dining Room, the Kitchen and
the Garden Room, through to individual bedrooms, the Studios and
the Library - Quentin Bell relives old memories, including having
T.S. Eliot over for a dinner party and staging plays in the Studio,
while Virginia Nicholson details the artistic techniques
(stencilling, embroidery, painting, sculpture, ceramics and more)
used to embellish and enliven the once simple farmhouse. In this
refreshed edition of the original 1997 publication, Gavin
Kingcombe's specially commissioned photographs breathe life into
the colourful interiors and garden of the Sussex farmhouse, while
updated text and captions by Virginia Nicholson capture the
evolution of Charleston as it continues to inspire a new
generation. For lovers of literature, decorative arts, and all
things Bloomsbury, Charleston: A Bloomsbury House & Garden
offers a window onto a truly unique creative hub.
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