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<title>The Bloomsbury Group’s storied Charleston house expands</title>
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The Bloomsbury Group’s storied Charleston house expands</h1>
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With a new gallery by Jamie Fobert Architects</h2>
<p style="max-width: 100%;">The Bloomsbury Group’s fabled Charleston home has undergone a bumper expansion by Jamie Fobert Architects to add new exhibition space.</p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;">The ramshackle Sussex country estate was the <a href="https://thespaces.com/tag/artists-homes/" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">
home of artists</a> Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, and stomping ground of <a href="https://thespaces.com/tag/modernism/" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">
Modernist</a> writers including Virginia and Leonard Woolf. It is run by the The Charleston Trust but it’s never had a dedicated exhibition space – until now.</p>
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Clive Bell’s bedroom. Photography: Axel Hesslenberg</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;"><a href="https://thespaces.com/tag/jamie-fobert-architects/" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">Jamie Fobert Architects</a> has built the new gallery using cross-laminated timber. Its rustic
form is inspired by Charleston’s historic barns and it houses five galleries and a retail space. Three of its cubic galleries borrow the proportions of Charleston’s main farmhouse.</p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;">Meanwhile two 18th-century farm buildings have been turned into an events space and restaurant, designed by practice Julian Harrap Architects.</p>
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<p style="max-width: 100%;">Charleston’s gallery launches on 8 September with the exhibition
<a href="https://www.charleston.org.uk/whats-on/exhibitions-8-september-2018-6-january-2019-orlando-present-time/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">
<em style="max-width: 100%;">Orlando at the present time</em></a>, in which contemporary artists respond to
<a href="https://thespaces.com/virginia-woolfs-hogarth-house-hits-market-surrey/" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">
Virginia Woolf</a>’s seminal novel, <em style="max-width: 100%;">Orlando</em>. The country home will now be open year round.</p>
<p style="max-width: 100%;"><strong style="max-width: 100%;">Read next:</strong> <a href="https://thespaces.com/artists-homes-you-can-visit/" style="color: rgb(65, 110, 210); max-width: 100%; text-decoration: underline;">
12 incredible artists’ homes you can visit across the world</a></p>
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