An artist couple has filled every floor of their 18th-century Spitalfields home with visual wit and warmth
Pop art pervades the London home of artists Philip and Charlotte Colbert: a chair resembling an open shark’s mouth sits alongside iconic soup can designs and a fried-egg rug that Philip has made. The brightly coloured objects and images make a bold statement against the muted colours of the panelled walls.
This immaculately restored panelling prevails throughout the ground and first floors of this Georgian home, liberally sprinkled with artworks by the likes of Karel Appel and Bob and Roberta Smith whose sign “Venessa Bell is an Idiot” hangs alongside Charlotte’s recent video sculpture with Sue Tilley (the famed subject of Lucian Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping painting).
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Pop art pervades the London home of artists Philip and Charlotte Colbert: a chair resembling an open shark’s mouth sits alongside iconic soup can designs and a fried-egg rug that Philip has made. The brightly coloured objects and images make a bold statement against the muted colours of the panelled walls.
This immaculately restored panelling prevails throughout the ground and first floors of this Georgian home, liberally sprinkled with artworks by the likes of Karel Appel and Bob and Roberta Smith whose sign “Venessa Bell is an Idiot” hangs alongside Charlotte’s recent video sculpture with Sue Tilley (the famed subject of Lucian Freud’s Benefits Supervisor Sleeping painting).
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