Kinfauns
Kinfauns was the home of George and Pattie Harrison from 1965-70. It was a modern bungalow that the Harrison's painted with psychedelic colors.Harrison bought Kinfauns for £20,000 on July 17, 1964, on the advice of Dr. Walter Strach, the Beatles' accountant. (Going house-shopping, he said later "It was the first one I saw, and I thought, that'll do.") He was joined there months later by wife-to-be Pattie Boyd. When Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull came over to visit the Harrisons and realized no one was home, they left a message. With bright yellow paint they wrote on the side of the house: Mick and Marianne were here. Pattie says the best years of her relationship were in this house. I love the originality of this house!
-Article from UK Vogue, March 1968, written before the Beatles trip to Rishikesh, India to meditate at Maharishi’s ashram in February 1968. "The Harrisons are a picture in themselves, richly decorated, brightening the view wherever they go..." PATTIE HARRISON AND THE PAINTED HOUSE By Georgina Howell Every wall of George and Pattie Harrison’s house is transfigured with swirls of colour, flowers and doodles. Alive with patterns, the house is illuminated like an ancient manuscript by the hands of friends who have come for a swim in the pool, for a vegitarian meal or a film show operated by George. Before the painted house stands the painted car, a prince among minicars with its glistening black windows and intricate lacing of tantric symbols and Sanskrit writing. The Harrisons are a picture in themselves, richly decorated, brightening the view wherever they go: Pattie perhaps in long, brilliant green culottes and boots in the same colour, her black Russian blouse studded with tiny stones, and her nails dark red. Like Buckingham Palace, their Esher bungalow always has a staring group at the entrance. The bolder onlookers jam the electric gates with gravel and walk about the garden, looking in the windows, "We want a different sort of house," says Pattie wistfully, "far away from people, in the middle of a wood, with a river and a pond." Everything in the Harrisons’ lives is linked with Indian culture, and the principals of peace and happiness. They don’t often have people to stay because their spare rooms are full of objects and books. They are always rearranging the rooms so that the layout of the rooms is never taken for granted. The sitting room, "It’s not like this anymore because we change the furniture about almost every week." The round mural is by Marijke and Simon of the Fool, who make clothes for the Beatles’ shop, Apple.
Aerial view of Kinfauns. Surrounded by an acre of land.
Pattie and George posing at Kinfauns.
Mick and Marianne's message.
Pattie's orange Mini.
-Article from UK Vogue, March 1968, written before the Beatles trip to Rishikesh, India to meditate at Maharishi’s ashram in February 1968. "The Harrisons are a picture in themselves, richly decorated, brightening the view wherever they go..." PATTIE HARRISON AND THE PAINTED HOUSE By Georgina Howell Every wall of George and Pattie Harrison’s house is transfigured with swirls of colour, flowers and doodles. Alive with patterns, the house is illuminated like an ancient manuscript by the hands of friends who have come for a swim in the pool, for a vegitarian meal or a film show operated by George. Before the painted house stands the painted car, a prince among minicars with its glistening black windows and intricate lacing of tantric symbols and Sanskrit writing. The Harrisons are a picture in themselves, richly decorated, brightening the view wherever they go: Pattie perhaps in long, brilliant green culottes and boots in the same colour, her black Russian blouse studded with tiny stones, and her nails dark red. Like Buckingham Palace, their Esher bungalow always has a staring group at the entrance. The bolder onlookers jam the electric gates with gravel and walk about the garden, looking in the windows, "We want a different sort of house," says Pattie wistfully, "far away from people, in the middle of a wood, with a river and a pond." Everything in the Harrisons’ lives is linked with Indian culture, and the principals of peace and happiness. They don’t often have people to stay because their spare rooms are full of objects and books. They are always rearranging the rooms so that the layout of the rooms is never taken for granted. The sitting room, "It’s not like this anymore because we change the furniture about almost every week." The round mural is by Marijke and Simon of the Fool, who make clothes for the Beatles’ shop, Apple.
Aerial view of Kinfauns. Surrounded by an acre of land.
Pattie and George posing at Kinfauns.
Mick and Marianne's message.
Pattie's orange Mini.
