Young Georgian
Photoshoot
at

6 Fitzroy Square

with

Matchbox



We had a super photoshoot at 6 Fitzroy Square last week to go with an interview I have done for Matchbox about The Young Georgians and the Townhouse parties Sophie Edmonds and I hold at The Georgian Group.

A throng of Young Georgians

Various Young Georgians descended on the place and Sophie and I decked them out in Georgian attire. The rooms were kept plain apart from two rather vulgar looking obelisks I'd bought, two huge white tassells, a table from Sir Jeffry Wyatt's Endsleigh, a George III tea urn and some material Sophie and I had lying around. Amidst this Georgian version of a car boot sale the scene was set for two hours of posing and poncing. All for a good cause; the Tenth Anniversary of the Young Georgians and the Seventy-Fifth of The Georgian Group.

Robert Adam's interior at 6 Fitzroy Square

Henry Conway - Vice Chairman of The Young Georgians

Sophie Edmonds - Co-Founder of Georgian Townhouse Parties

Photographer Marco Walker entered in to the spirit of the thing and managed to keep us all in line despite some a few mishaps...a nearly major wardrobe malfunction by a magnificent specimen of a Georgian lady, Henry Conway's whig (or was it real?!) molting, my socks slipping down and general tomfoolery.

                Oliver Gerrish, Carolina Busiba and Adrian Steffny

I hope the results of this shoot and article will speak for themselves and show the readers of Matchbox that fun, life and colour are paramount to a charity such as The Georgian Group. Nancy Mitford, Robert Byron and other bright young members of the Group at its inception would hopefully agree too!

Lady Worsley gazes down on some modern Georgian belles

Oliver Gerrish - Chairman of The Young Georgians

Photographer Catherine Chapman

 The Georgian Group is healthier than ever with over three thousand members, countless visits, lectures and events and, most importantly, the support it gives in an advisory or financial way to so many Georgian buildings from the smallest barn to the grandest public buildings.

       Long live the Gorgeous Georgians!!




For more information on The Georgian Group please see www.georgiangroup.org.uk
For information on Matchbox please see www.matchboxmag.com
For information on Marco Walker please see www.marcowalker.com

                        All images in this blog are under the copyright ownership of Oliver Gerrish