Charleston

Charleston farmhouse occupies a special place in 20th-century British cultural history as the creative and intellectual hub of the Bloomsbury Group of artists, writers and intellectuals. Set in the beautiful landscape setting of the South Downs National Park, the farmhouse, dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, became the country home from 1916 of Vanessa Bell, an artist and interior designer, and her fellow artist and lover Duncan Grant, a painter and designer of textiles and pottery.

Vanessa was one of the first British artists to paint fully abstract paintings in the early