The Fendi Set: From Bloomsbury to Borghese, published by Rizzoli and featuring ethereal imagery by photographer Nikolai von Bismarck, celebrates the dual history of the Roman fashion house and the ...
was published. The text, revolutionary in form, spanning just a single day but flitting between times, narrators, and slipping into stream of consciousness digressions, was published by Hogarth Press, the imprint that Woolf ran with her husband Leonard, with a dust-jacket designed by Vanessa Bell, Woolf’s painter and interior designer sister. British obscenity laws had prevented the duo from first publishing the text – which made reference to homosexuality, PTSD and suicide – in 1919.
Jones’ interest spans from teenagehood, when he spent his adolescence cycling around the bucolic East Sussex villages Firle and Rodmell and visiting the bohemian town of Lewes, near Charleston House, the home of Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant, which became a Bloomsbury Set residence and sanctuary.Set: From Bloomsbury to Borghese.
’s maze-like show set featured books and shelves stacked with rare volumes and ephemera related to the Bloomsbury Set, sourced from London’s Peter Harrington Rare Books, which included the first copy of Now, Jones has translated his fascination with the Bloomsbury Set into the pages of a new volume, the Rizzoli-published which celebrates the dual history of the Roman fashion house and the mid-20th century British intellectual group.
Other stylistic techniques celebrate the heritage of the Bloomsbury Set: the Caslon font, which Woolf and her husband designed for Hogarth Press, is used throughout the book, and the volume’s marbled textures were created from photographs that von Bismarck took of book covers in Jones’ personal archive and the library at Charleston House.is a century-spanning bookcase essential. In, female protagonist Lady Orlando holds court with a host of famed writers, including Alexander Pope.
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