Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant met in 1905 and remained close for the next 50 years. They were friends, lovers, and collaborators, and eventually they made a home in Sussex Downs, at a farmhouse called Charleston, where they painted anything that could take paint—walls, fireplaces, tables, lamps. Bell, Virginia Woolf’s older sister, was at the forefront of British Post-Impressionism. Grant was a brilliant painter and decorator, and also charming, gay, and famously unfaithful. Together, they gave the Bloomsbury Group much of its visual identity. The Tate Britain is now presenting the largest exhibition ever devoted to the pair. Along with 300 works that include paintings, ceramics, textiles, and furniture, the show is re-creating their Charleston studio. —Elena Clavarino