Colony Room Club London
An exhibition opens this week to celebrate the work of its regular clients read missing.
Colony room club london. The colony room club was a private members club in central london that catered for the artistic elite. The colony room club was a private members drinking club at 41 dean street soho 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. 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.
It quickly became a haven for artists poets radicals and free thinkers.