
Charleston is a farmhouse near Lewes, Sussex which was once the home of
Clive Bell, his wife
Vanessa, and her lover
Duncan Grant.
Leonard and
Virginia Woolf were frequent visitors from their own country property at Monk's House in nearby Rodmell. Other members of the Bloomsbury Group such as
Lytton Strachey,
David Garnett, and
Maynard Keynes were regular visitors. It is most famous for the fact that Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant covered the entire surface of the house - walls, fireplace, cupboards, tables, chairs - with their decorations and paintings, an impulse that was also part of the
Omega Workshops movement initiated by Roger Fry around the same time during the first world war. [A subsidiary purpose of the house was to act as a refuge for conscientious objectors to the war.]...
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