The newly revised and updatedCharleston: 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 artand creating a rural retreatfor 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 andthe 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 enliventhe once simple farmhouse. In thisrefreshed 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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Publisher: Quarto Publishing PLCISBN: 9780711239319Number of pages: 176Dimensions: 220 x 200 mmEdition: New Edition
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A glorious reminder of Charleston's enduring influence.The TimesAngelica Garnett,daughter of Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell,called Charleston'an earthly paradise'. In this haunting book you can see why. World of Interiors
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