• Apartamento Magazine
  • issue 36, Autumn/Winter 2025

Charleston House

Lewes: In 1927, in ultra-rural southern England, a beleaguered artist took drastic action. Vanessa Bell—painter, interior designer, furniture maker—needed a break from uninvited visitors to her house. So she put up a sign in a field: TO CHARLESTON. OUT. What seems at first like helpful guidance to the general public (‘This way to Charleston!’) turns…

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