FROM ST IVES TO CHARLESTON HOUSE

EXPRESSIVE INTERIORS
& WILD GARDENS

St Ives was the anchor for Vanessa Bell and Virginia Woolf’s childhood holidays. Here, they inhabited an intensely sensory world where rambling gardens gave way to sweeping views of St Ives Bay.


Later, Vanessa let her imagination run wild at Charleston House in Sussex, the country home of the Bloomsbury Group, where she lived for 40 years. Our designs this month reference its magical interiors and the gardens of both Sussex and Cornwall.

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3 studio shots of women in the studio. First, wearing a white top, flowery scarf & dark green skirt. Second, wearing dark green polkadot dress & a straw hat. Third, wearing a dark long length dark green flowery dress. Briarfield dress Short sleeved seed pack dress Poisson Top Art Studio Skirt
A women wearing a bright & colourful scarf with a navy tunic underneath. Lots of paintings hung in the room around her. Trewan Hall Top

CHARLESTON HOUSE
AN ARTISTIC & UNCONVENTIONAL HOME

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2 Ladies, one posing in the house with paintings behind her wearing a white top & red flowered pattern blue skirt & the other outside of the front door wearing a red flowered patterned blue dress Top Terrace Dress Forsythia skirt Poisson T-shirt
2 girls wearing classic striped tops & casual trousers in the garden Breton striped sailor top Scots pine trousers Nanterrow Trouser Breton striped sailor top 2 for £40 tops

SPRING STRIPES &
ORGANIC COTTON

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A summer outfit laid out on the floor. Colour swatch vest, straw hat, navy trousers & colourful espadrilles. 2nd image, a women wearing a colour swatch scarf, red top & green trousers inside the house. Cobbs well top Albert Quay Trousers Lookout place hat Ida peep toe shoes New everyday scarf

It still makes me feel warm; as if everything were ripe; humming;
sunny… the buzz, the croon, the smell… it was rapture.

Virgina Woolf on her childhood holidays in St Ives

A woman posing in front of the fireplace. Wearing a light green top with a flowery pattern.
4 images. 1. A lady posing in front of the window wearing a long summer dress with a blue flower pattern. 2. A flat image of our colourful new brogue shoes. 3. Close up image of a painting of a lady playing the harp. 4. Close up of the lady wearing the dress. Beryan Leather Shoe
Lady wearing a flowery patterned top, with blue & green flowers Aventurier Tunic Aventurier Tunic in teal polkadot

CHARLESTON PRINTS
CORNISH COLOURS

2 Ladies, posing in the living room wearing flowery yellow top & plain trousers. Stone worker top Art gallery pear coloured top Carhales trousers in navy Stone worker top in nickel Albert Quay trousers Art Gallery top in pear
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WITH THANKS TO
Estate of Vanessa Bell, courtesy of Henrietta Garnett, Estate of Duncan Grant, administered by DACS and
the team at Charleston, East Sussex