At the end of the month
Charleston, the Bloomsbury Group's country house and garden, reopens to the public for the spring and summer seasons. But right now there's an expanded website to explore. With anticipation building for the
2016 centenary, the boho rooms
Vanessa Bell created with
Duncan Grant continue to fascinate. While
this beautifully produced video about Charleston's future offers a bit of a virtual tour, the ever-improving
online collection database really provides a sense of the artists' extensive assemblage of textiles, paintings, and ceramics.
At this point everything is coexisting together (appropriate for the Bloomsburries, no?), so antiques purchased by Duncan or Vanessa appear in the same groups as pieces they and their creative cohorts made themselves. Because of this, it's easy to make connections between the old and not-terribly-old. Scrolling through ceramics, you'll find work by Vanessa's son, potter
Quentin Bell, side-by-side with the pieces that likely influenced him.
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