{"id":148413,"date":"2024-12-07T23:00:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/in-the-frame-hotels-tattoos-and-family-with-vanessa-branson\/"},"modified":"2024-12-07T23:19:14","modified_gmt":"2024-12-07T16:19:14","slug":"in-the-frame-hotels-tattoos-and-family-with-vanessa-branson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/in-the-frame-hotels-tattoos-and-family-with-vanessa-branson\/","title":{"rendered":"In the frame: hotels, tattoos and family with Vanessa Branson"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nArt, sculpture and inspired colour palettes turn a home into the story of a lifeVanessa Branson lives in a mews house set back from a cobbled street. At one end is an old synagogue, at the other a Greek Orthodox cathedral, and beyond the little courtyard is a home that, as soon as you enter, feels like the most comfortable art gallery in the world. For all its rickety glamour, this house is significantly smaller than Branson\u2019s previous home, a large townhouse in west London. \u201cI have four kids who were all living with me with their partners, and then I had a friend who moved in for a long weekend and stayed for 32 years \u2013 there were 10 of us in the house,\u201d she says, merrily adding that selling it was the only way to get them all to leave.While her brother Richard was launching Virgin Records, in 1986 Branson opened a small contemporary art gallery in London\u2019s Portobello Road. She was 23, and it was a time, she says, when art meant \u201csporting prints\u201d for collectors\u2019 walls. \u201cIt was quite a risky thing to do to buy something contemporary, but I realised that by buying a young artist\u2019s work you\u2019re encouraging them to push on. I didn\u2019t have much cash, but I started to buy works myself, and it\u2019s been a fabulous part of my life.\u201d Continue reading…
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