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. 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. 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.