Colony Room Club London

The colony room club the colony room formerly located at 41 dean street soho was founded in 1948 by muriel belcher.

Colony room club london.

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. 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. It was founded and presided over by muriel belcher from its inception in 1948 until her death in 1979. The colony room club was a private members drinking club at 41 dean street soho 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.