(Source: lovemrlarkin, via diaryofamum)
I worked at Charleston last summer, I wish could’ve been there when people wore dressed like this.
Letter from Carrington to Lytton Strachey, c. 1916. (Wikimedia Commons)
The Bloomsbury post reminded me of a favourite painting by Dora Carrington - courtesy of Tate Britain
Dora Carrington - Spanish Landscape 1924
Lady Ottoline Morrell as photographed by Cavendish Morton, 1905. (National Portrait Gallery)
Conversation, Vanessa Bell, 1913 - 1916. Oil on canvas. (The Courtauld Institute of Art.)
Virginia Woolf wandered its corridors, discussing philosophy with her sister Vanessa Bell. John Maynard Keynes wrote The Economic Consequences of the Peace in an upstairs bedroom. Duncan Grant – who lived here until his death in 1978 – painted directly on the walls. All of them were having affairs with each other.
The retreat for the Bloomsbury group, Charleston House- every inch covered in colourful paintings and sketches done by it’s inhabitants.
Duncan Grant - The Stove, Fitzroy street, 1936.
