| ISBN |
9780711239319 (pbk.) |
| Classification Number |
700.92 BEL |
| Author |
Bell, Quentin |
| Title |
Charleston : a Bloomsbury house and garden [BK] |
| Edition |
Revised and updated edition. |
| Physical Description |
illustrations, portraits, plans ; |
| Note |
"First published in 1997 by Frances Lincoln, an imprint of The Quarto Group."--Colophon. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Dramatis personae -- A vanished world -- Clive Bell's study -- The dining room -- The kitchen -- The garden room -- Vanessa Bell's bedroom -- The studios -- Clive Bell's bedroom -- The green bathroom -- The library -- Maynard Keynes's bedroom -- Duncan Grant's bedroom -- The spare bedroom -- The garden -- Afterword. |
| Set in the heart of the Sussex Downs, Charleston Farmhouse is the most important remaining example of Bloomsbury decorative style, created by the painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant. Quentin Bell, the younger son of Clive and Vanessa Bell, and his daughter Virghinia Nicholson, tell the story of this unique house, linking it with some of the leading cultural figures who were invited there, including Vanessa's sister Virginia Woolf, the writer Lytton Strachey, the economist Maynard Keynes and the art critic Roger Fry. The house and garden are portrayed through Alen MacWeeney's atmostpheric photographs; pictures from Vanessa Bell's family album convey the flavour of the household in its heyday. |
| Bell, Vanessa, -- 1879-1961 |
| Bell, Quentin |
| Bell, Vanessa 1879-1971 |
| Grant, Duncan, -- 1885-1978 |
| Subject |
Charleston Farmhouse (West Firle, England) |
| Historic house museums -- West Firle |
| Literary landmarks -- West Firle |
| Artists -- Biography |
| Gardens -- West Firle |
| Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography |
| Artists -- Homes and haunts -- West Firle |
| Country homes -- West Firle |
| Bloomsbury group |
| Farmhouses -- West Firle |
| West Firle (England) -- Biography |
| Additional Author |
Nicholson, Virginia |
| Kingcome, Gavin |
