Charleston Farmhouse

“Modernist home of painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant as well as a key gathering place for the Bloomsbury group. Every surface is lovingly decorated and the garden feels like a living painting itself. Well worth a weekend trip from London, especially for a recovering minimalist.”

“NOT BOOK, but rather HOUSE & GARDEN —a favorite home tour & place…Because it is the antidote to AI, Algo decorating, a celebration of collective, chaotic, and colorful artists living together, including my hero, Virginia Woolf. If stream-of-consciousness were a house & garden—here it is. Three cheers for The Bloomsbury Group, Omega workshop , a real house and garden with real characters. I obvi. can't say enough about this house, and can't wait to visit in person. Big thanks to designer Frances Merrill in LA who turned me onto Charleston when I interviewed her for a story I wrote for a design magazine (trad home), I called it "Bloomsbury in Brentwood."”

“Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, all of our favorite English writers and artists living, practicing and loving in this colorful collected collective —House and Garden. Alive and well with heaps of originality as an antidote to AI, algo and all the sterile décor out there. Worth buying the book, and visiting in person too. To really hit and live the analog theme hard.”