Ladies of the Club: GUCCI

VANESSA

VIRGINIA

VITA

VIOLET

OTTOLINE

 DORELIA

EDITH

the literary Lions of GARSINGTON

all photographed at Garsington by Ottoline or Philip Morrell from her scrapbooks

NPG.

the colors of Lady Ottoline

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a box of Lady Ottoline Morrell's silk sewing threads left at Garsington

(see Garsington at my blog devoted to Ottoline, Ottoline Divine HERE)

photograph by Christopher Simon Sykes

painting Charleston with Lottie Cole

Lottie Cole's Charleston Drawing Room, Gouache, 20 x 30 cms

It has been nearly a century since the Bloomsbury group caught the attention of their fellow countryman-shocking them, dismaying them and creating something uniquely modern from a generation born in the Victorian era . This coterie is amongst a long list of British influences that shadow the work stylists, interior designers, writers-and painters today.

When thinking BLOOMSBURY we conjure the free spirited thinkers that wandered about the countryside near Vanessa Bell's Charleston-and padded about on the cool worn floors of the always creatively inhabited farmhouse at Charleston. Painters- painting on canvas and walls-decorating as it were, but creating something far beyond a pleasing room. They covered every imaginable surface-leaving their mark, swirls, flowers, and pattern on carpets, pillows, curtains, tables, chairs-everywhere one turned there was inspiration underfoot.
Visitors to Charleston included Leonard and Virginia Woolf, Lytton Strachey; economist John Maynard Keynes; artists, Roger Fry, and Dora Carrington; along with other notables in their orbit including E.M. Forster, D.H. Lawrence, Bertrand Russell, Ottoline Morrell and Wyndham Lewis.

 the artist Lottie Cole at Charleston amongst her inspiration

In the spirit of that collaborative endeavor to create beauty, enter the soft spoken and kindred spirit to that illustrious list of artists and writers inspired by the magical world of Charleston. Come along with Lottie-and her marvelous paintings that embrace the spirit of Charleston-but are distinctly her own.



Lottie Cole is interviewed in her studio and at Charleston by Cathy Sayers about her work and the inspirations for her Bloomsbury interiors. 

"I am very busy inside the house, putting up curtains,etc...I have just been getting a bright reddish orange stuff for curtains for the sitting room, to be lined and bordered in mauve."Vanessa Bell on her decoration of Charleston

Vanessa Bell's Self Portrait, and below in Lottie Cole's painting

Lottie Cole's Charleston Drawing Room, Oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cms

Lottie Cole's Charleston Drawing Room, Oil on canvas, 120 x 150 cms

photograph of the Studio at Charleston

Charleston - view from bedroom through to studio, Oil on canvas, 120 x 150 cm

Charleston Studio - Ewer, Easel & Mirror, Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cms

photograph of the Library at Charleston

Charleston Library, Oil on canvas, 150 x 120 cms

Charleston - chair and Gordon's Gin Bottle, Oil on canvas, 100 x 100 cms

Lottie's portfolio is here
read the spirited interview of several years back with Lisa Borgnes Giramonti about Bloomsbury and Charleston here



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alas

RIP. GOOGLE READER

Welcome to my world on bloglovin' !

I confess I am woefully behind in keeping up with the blogs I read.
I've imported my google reader (why, when something works-does google kill it?) to bloglovin'.

Though I've followed several blogs through it-I've added the google reader blogs I follow.
 I received my first newly minted blog list today-and my my my-(as auntie mame would say), I need to edit! While I do lots of editing other places-I have not done anything with google reader in years? could it be? According to bloglovin' I am following over 300 blogs?

so I'm juggling it all as best I can. how about you?

Surely 200 is a fair number to follow-do you think I can be so brutal as to strike 100?
what do I fear?
...that rather than purging I fear I will be holding on and adding more.

to be continued...

Little Augury is NOW fully plugged into bloglovin!
I like the format of the daily email bloglovin' sends and it was a so easy to import-so do it now.

Here is where you will find me ..at bloglovin'

little augury here

ottoline divine here

coming soon little agury, gavatar, (don't ask, because at the moment I don't think I am able to 'splain.)

Ottoline & ME

Ottoline Divine is a blog I began in 2011 to keep her in the picture- and it is with great pleasure I share an interview about Lady Ottoline Morrell & ME.

There is no doubt that "OM"-as she id'ed herself in one of her copious snaps for her scrapbooks-now held by the NPG- would be blogging online-and we would be flocking to her aerie. Her images give an unparallelled glimpse into the era-with a who's WHO of the aesthetes of the day.

 Ottoline with her camera, above & below, Hanneli Mustaparta snapping away while photographed by Tommy Ton

Moving through time-Ottoline continues to inspire Us-and others- whether aware of it-
Ottoline is in the Air.

Marc Jacobs for Louis Vuitton, Fall 2012

Read-all about Ottoline, Art, Fashion and Creation here. ART FASHION CREATION is written by one nom de plume "toile la la."

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I'm a little teapot

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coffee? tea? both?

ebay? etsy? both?
I always loved to pick things from catalogs and the pages of my mother's and grandmother's fashion and house magazines when I was growing up-Always! even Now.
recent looks through etsy  for teapots and a bit of ebay-though navigating through all the clutter there I saw-



Edith.

Her best friend as a child was a peacock.

Could Virginia be there too?
She loved china & porcelain. That's something that made me happy to know.
And to know her friends saw her as a happy person. Things are not always what they seem to be-for better or worse-No?
Surprised about Virginia's love of  fine porcelain?
Pretty things for a Pretty Virginia, something dainty I think.

Sipping & Smoking at Monk's House-

or gathered around Vanessa Bell's table at Charleston.

& at Garsington, there are oh so many choices for Ottoline.

Ottoline at home, Garsington

 while Vita  found her choice Quite simple.

something she found at Knole and brought home.

 Dorelia ?
whatever was at hand.

 No I couldn't decide on one and these are still to be had at etsy.


Links to their drinks below:\

Burslem, England by R Sudlow & Sons Peacock pot

Transferware Teapot in Plymouth

Enamelware Painted pot

Sterling mounted pot

Eighteenth century Silver teapot

 A Chinese earthenware pot




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