Colony Room Club London

The colony room club was a private members drinking club at 41 dean street soho london.

Colony room club london.

The colony room club was a private members club in central london that catered for the artistic elite. Tales from the colony room an oral history of london s most infamous bar delves into the artistic collaborations affections cruelties and regrets of the club s patrons. It was founded and presided over by muriel belcher from its inception in 1948 until her death in 1979. Over a million dollars worth of paintings sculptures and artistic ephemera vanished from the colony room an elite counter culture private drinking club according to a writer and artist whose new.

The colony room club in soho open for 60 years from 1948 was a louche drinking den and hangout of an extraordinary range of artists poets radicals and free thinkers from noel coward e m forster and tallulah bankhead to francis bacon george melly and young british artists tracey emin and damien hirst.