Colony Room Club London
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.
Colony room club london. It quickly became a haven for artists poets radicals and free thinkers. 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 the colony room formerly located at 41 dean street soho was founded in 1948 by muriel belcher. 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.
An exhibition opens this week to celebrate the work of its regular clients read missing.