House & Garden presents Houses with History from Charleston House. Join Lucy Hammond Giles, Associate Director at Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler, as we tour Charleston House, once home to artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.
Vanessa and Duncan saw no particular distinction between art and interior design, and treated the house as a canvas, painting practically every wall and piece of furniture in their own distinctive styles. As a result, the house is not only a significant piece of art history, but a landmark in the history of interior decoration. Watch the full video, as Lucy provides her unique perspective as a decorator whilst we explore this historic house.
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31 Comments
Fabulous….
Wow- that was beautiful. It’s difficult to pick a favorite room – but if I had to it would be the study/ library. Wonderful!
The house is so charming and arresting. I believe the artist Dora Carrington did the same thing at the house she share with Lytton Strachey.
Fantastic! Charleston is as always… So completely inspiring!
Thank you for filming this. Whenever I’ve seen photographs of this house they’ve always concentrated on the famous mantelpieces. It’s really nice to see the rest of the house.
Love the garden room xxx
How gorgeous and interesting. Thank you so much
It works as a lovely museum that highlights how a certain sort of rebel soul lived in times past, AND it contains moments of inspiration as well… but I can't imagine living that way today. It's truly lovely, and I'm so glad to see it, but I can't imagine trying to reproduce such a style in our contemporary world. With that in mind, I do wish more people would embrace color in the way that the Bloomsbury Group did. I'm so deadly bored of "the neutral palette." Many thanks.
Absolutely gorgeous! 👍❤️
Enchanting.
Fan tas tic
Interesting!
WOW. I have several 110 year old doors in my house which need to be stripped and re-painted. I never considered anything by solid color. The pantry door in my kitchen just might be a dark blue with moon phases, rabbits and herbs. because why not
i am in LOVE ❤
Amazing.
This is a real cool example of living in the early 20th century. What an interesting place to live.
I love this house so much, I hate that many of today’s houses have stark white or plain walls and bland coloured furniture
Beautiful..beautiful..beautifully and tastefully done 😍
I knew this house from books and it was always the house of my dreams, but as you show it in this video it comes alive!
The whirlwind of creativity that has wrought in this home is stunning!
Beautifully filmed & edited as always
Interesting presentation
SUCH A PRETTY ARTISTIC HOME ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS !
What a marvelous tour of this glorious home. Thank you! I'd read that Duncan Grant and Vanessa Bell were a source of inspiration for Luke Edward Hall's work and wow– I definitely see it. What a wonderful peek into such a layered, historic home.
AH It's all fantastic. Complicated for me I do interior design if I did any of that I would think it's awful. I'm very critical of my work and I do very nice design, I'm to self controle
With respect, are you saying that the dead Vanessa Bell lived with Duncan Grant until 1978, the year he died, even tho she died in 1961 … ?
I hit the send before I was finished. I just love all of that unfortunately my mind won't allow me to just let go. How lucky for them they were free spirited very nice.
Wonderful in every way !
Really loved this house but those “marks from the rain” look like mold to me.
I really like the wall decor (dining room). there is something kind beautiful and charming about its hand-painted aspect. the style of painting on the furniture almost reminds of a precursor to Memphis (furniture design). although Memphis is a lot of abstract and structured, there is something of that playfulness and sort of whimsy to the painting style
An artist’s home! My favorite kind. ❤
Stupendo