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pagansphinx · 8 months

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'It will be an odd life, but…it ought to be a good one for painting,' the artist Vanessa Bell said of Charleston, the Sussex farmhouse that in 1916 became a focal point for the Bloomsbury Group; that amorphous circle of writers, intellectuals and artists who lived and worked in Bloomsbury before the First World War and beyond.

Artist Vanessa Bell married art critic Clive Bell in 1907 and they had two sons, Julian (who died in 1937 during the Spanish Civil War at the age of 29 and Quentin (the artist and potter). The couple had an open marriage, both taking lovers throughout their lives. Bell had affairs with art critic Roger Fry and with the painter Duncan Grant, with whom she had a daughter, Angelica in 1918, whom Clive Bell raised as his own child.

Over the years, Charleston Farmhouse was home to not only Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant, and their family but to their extended family, their friends, and their lovers.

In 1916, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant moved to the Charleston Farmhouse in Sussex. Living at the house along with Bell and Grant were her two sons Julian and Quentin and Grant’s friends and lover David Garnett. Due to both Grant and Garnett being conscientious objectors of the First World War, they needed to find work on a farm otherwise they would have gone to prison. Grant and Garnett were able to find work on a farm near the Charleston Farmhouse, so that is why they chose that location to live.

Almost as soon as Vanessa and Duncan moved into Charleston, they began to paint, not just on canvas, but over every available surface - walls, of course, but also tables, chairs, bedheads and bookcases; all glowed with swirls and spirals of colour and pattern, full of life and vitality, that was as far from the conservative, conventional interior decoration of the time as it was possible to be.

The writer Dorothy Parker is said to have quipped that the 'Bloomsbury paints in circles, lives in squares and loves in triangles.' A perfect summation when attempting to describe the beyond complicated living situation of Charleston's custodians.

'The house seems full of young people in very high spirits, laughing a great deal at their own jokes...lying about in the garden which is simply a dithering blaze of flowers and butterflies and apples,' wrote Vanessa in 1936. Indeed over the next sixty years the house would become a magnet for the intellectual avant-garde.

Sources: houseandgarden.co.uk, Wikipedia

Photo credit: Paul Massey

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#bohemian life #Wood cabin

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bourbonandcash · 11 months

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secrethydra · 1 year

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Living my dream summer

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Will, Maynard, Dorthea, Frida and Diego...

Author/dentist—Will Lillibridge (my great-granduncle) wrote the book Ben Blair. It was published by A. C. McClurg & Co., Chicago, 1905. This was the same year Will’s older brother, Lowell Stanton Lillibridge (my great-grandfather) helped settle the town of Burke, South Dakota where I grew up. I recently discovered that the cover art for Ben Blair was done by artist, Maynard Dixon—he was married…

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KAM NA VEGAN JEDLO V SANTIAGU DE COMPOSTELA

V rámci toho, že sa nám podarilo zakončiť púť do Santiaga o deň skôr než bolo v pôvodnom pláne ostal nám čas na spoznávanie nie len krás ale aj kuchyne tohto mesta.

Mali sme len niekoľko hodín lebo večer už nám letelo lietadlo. Stihli sme však navštíviť tú najlepšie hodnotenú vegánsku reštauráciu v Santiagu. Celkovo ich tu majú 100% vegánske len dve a potom mnoho takých, ktoré vegan možnosti ponúkajú aj keď vegánske nie sú. A spoň teda podľa informácií na Happy Cow. Tú aplikáciu spomínam dosť často ale nedá mi to nedať jej kredit ktorý si zasluhuje. Vždy mi na cestách pomáha v hľadaní podnikov.

KÁVA A CHLEBÍČKY v Café Bar Suso

Adresa: Rúa do Vilar, 65, 15705 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Španielsko

Ubytovanie sme mali asi 10 minút od katedrály a preto sme si chceli nájsť aj miesto na kávu a raňajky niekde v blízkosti. Sadli sme si teda do prvej kaviarne, ktorá nám prišla sympatická. Ja som pôvodne nemala v pláne ani nič jesť no keď som uvidela ich raňajkovú kartu neodolala som.

Na kváskovom chlebe podávali nasekané paradajky s olivovým olejom, na tom poriadnu dávku avokáda posypaného soľou a čiernymi sezamovými semienkami. Kamarátka si dala vegetariánsku variantu chlebíčka a tak môžem toto miesto odporúčať aj ak cestujete s neveganmi a nechcete aby celý deň bol iba podľa vašich preferencií. Aj keď ja mám v tomto šťastie a moje kamarátky majú radi aj vegánske jedlo a jeho ochutnávanie či už doma v pražských podnikoch alebo na cestách.

NAJLEPŠIA VEGANSKÁ REŠTAURÁCIA V MESTE

Adresa: Rúa do Hospitaliño, 7, 15704 Santiago de Compostela, A Coruña, Španielsko

Entre Pedras – To je názov reštaurácie, ktorú sme si na náš neskorý obed vybrali. Mali plno čo ma samozrejme potešilo. Človek chvíľu musí čakať ale aspoň vie, že po vegánskych jedlách je dopyt.

Podnik nebol veľmi veľký no aj tak sa skladal z dvoch miestností a vonkajšej terasy, ktorá sa nachádzala na priestranstve v uličke za reštauráciou. Tam nás aj usadili. Hneď ako sme si objednali nám len tak v rámci čakania doniesli predjedlo. Zadarmo. Malú misku letného cestovinového šalátu s cícerom.

Menu sme dostali v podobe QR kódu vyrezaného do drevenej kartičky a tak sme si vyberali priamo v mobile. V rámci španielskeho textu sme si po rozkliknutí jednotlivých položiek mohli menu prečítať aj v angličtine.

V ponuke mali predjedlá ako nachos a šaláty. Hlavné jedlá kde ste si mohli dať kebab, burrito či quesadillu a mnoho ďalšieho. A samozrejme dezerty.

Kamarátka mala šalát s microgreens a nugetkami. Ja som mala fazuľové burito s kopou šalátu.

Po jedle sme si dali kávu a sladké. Ja som mala niečo na spôsob krémovo smotanového dezertu s čokoládou a pyré z arašidového masla. Extra sladké ale aj extra dobré. Kamarákta mala čokoládový zákusok.