Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden

Charleston: A Bloomsbury House and Garden by Bell, Quentin. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780711223707.

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 Vanessas 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 MacWeeneys atmostpheric photographs; pictures from Vanessa Bells family album convey the flavour of the household in its heyday.