{"id":145059,"date":"2024-06-13T21:23:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-13T14:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-most-promiscuous-man-in-town-the-life-loves-and-legendary-sex-parties-of-dennis-severs\/"},"modified":"2024-06-13T21:28:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-13T14:28:27","slug":"the-most-promiscuous-man-in-town-the-life-loves-and-legendary-sex-parties-of-dennis-severs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-most-promiscuous-man-in-town-the-life-loves-and-legendary-sex-parties-of-dennis-severs\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The most promiscuous man in town\u2019: the life, loves and legendary sex parties of Dennis Severs"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nHe was the Californian surfer boy who by day gave bogus tours of his London house \u2013 and by night held epic orgies. Now a real tour, about the ceramicist he fell in love with, is opening at the astonishing residenceTime seems to have stood still at Dennis Severs\u2019 House. Its four-poster bed has been left unmade, half-empty glasses of wine sit on the table and breakfast has been only partly eaten. It\u2019s as if its 18th-century residents have only just departed. Yet, astonishingly, these interiors were created in the 1980s, by an American with a vision of history drawn largely from watching British costume dramas on TV. The house, in the Spitalfields area of London, remains one of the city\u2019s sublime eccentric gems \u2013 and it is about to evolve once more, with a new tour that tells the story of Severs himself and of the glorious queer lives of those who lived with him.Severs was a blond Californian surfer boy fresh out of college when he arrived in London in 1967. It was there that he found the freedom to live openly as a gay man. With an inborn sense of theatricality and a well-tailored coachman\u2019s outfit, Severs was a natural showman who hosted tours around London in an open carriage. After he spied the opportunity in 1979 to buy the then decrepit house for just \u00a318,000, he moved in with little more than a bedroll, a candlestick and a chamber pot \u2013 then swiftly embarked upon a camp, do-it-yourself aesthetic, conjuring the interiors as his fantasia on historical themes. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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