More Charleston and the Gardens

We were not allowed to take photos inside the house which is a pity because it is kept basically just as it was left, with all the books and furniture and kitchen equipment. The artists who lived here, Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, Roger Fry, etc. were devoted to the Arts and Crafts movement at the time. Influenced by modern painters, they designed fabric designes out of which were made curtains and upolstery for furniture. They also painted these motifs on the tables and walls. It is all very charming and homey, though I guess, at the time, it suggested more the avant garde rather than the old homey and familiar. Vanessa's husband, Quentin Bell, had a lot to do with the garden, I believe. It is maintained much like it was when the Bloomsbury folks lived here.