In “Forgive me, Virginia Woolf,” Melissa Bellinelli shares the story of how she created a Charleston-style dining room of her own in a sunny Long Island home.
Her inspiration came from taking a class on Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group at Oxford, along with her frequent visits to Charleston Farm.
She remembered the details — the black stenciled walls, the hand-painted round table and the chairs designed by Roger Fry — and decided to mimic them in the dining room addition she and her husband built. So she ordered the reproduction chairs and the Biblioteque wallpaper — and went on to create her fantasy room, in two different incarnations.
Here are some other Charleston links of interest:
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- Domestic Lives: Forgive Me, Virginia Woolf (nytimes.com)
Hello, I would like to send you an invitation to the private view of my “Bloomsbury Interiors” show on November 19th at Cricket Fine Art (2 Park Walk, SW10) and also to include a link to a short film the gallery commissioned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHqWpCpmQ_4 It would be great if you can pop along. Best wishes Lottie
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On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 8:23 PM, Blogging Woolf