Tales from the Colony Room : Soho's lost Bohemia
Coffield, Darren2020
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To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the closure of London's most infamous arts establishment, the Colony Room Club in Soho, former member Darren Coffield has written the authorised history of this notorious drinking den. It's a hair-raising romp through the underbelly of the post-war scene: during its 60-year history, more romances, more deaths, more horrors and more sex scandals took place in the Colony than anywhere else. In the regimented and repressed atmosphere of post-war London, the Colony was heroically bohemian, largely thanks to the dominant personality of its owner, Muriel Belcher. Muriel was a combination of muse, mentor, critic and guru to those who gathered around her, just as the Colony provided a home for the confluence of talents that will be forever associated with the artistic circle of Francis Bacon and Lucian Freud.
Main title:
Tales from the Colony Room : Soho's lost Bohemia / Darren Coffield ; with a foreword by Barry Humphries.
Author:
Coffield, Darren, author
Imprint:
London : Unbound, 2020.
Collation:
xxviii, 427 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white), map (black and white) ; 24 cm
Notes:
Illustrations on lining papers.Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9781783528165 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
647.954213647.954647.9542132
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2519971
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