|
|
Article: The Bloomsbury Collection
- Article from:
- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- March 19, 1987
- Author:
CopyrightThis material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information)
|
Victorian floral prints and subdued versions of 18th-century
English chintz have long been the signatures of Laura Ashley fabrics
and wallpapers.
But this year, a new collection of Laura Ashley home furnishings
has a 20th-century inspiration. It comes from the free-spirited
designs found at Charleston, an English farmhouse on the Sussex Downs
where English artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant moved in 1916.
Bell (who was Virginia Woolf's sister) and Grant were members of the
bohemian Bloomsbury Group, a crowd of talented painters, designers
and writers.
The Bloomsbury entourage quickly adopted Charleston as their
unofficial headquarters and many lived there commune-style, adding
their ...