The Sunroom
Julian Lennon in The Sunroom
Kenneth Partridge, an Interior Designer who had decorated Brian Epstein’s London flat, was asked by John Lennon to design the interior at Kenwood. Cynthia Lennon said “We liked some of the lavish designs, but they weren’t what we’d have chosen, let to ourselves. The results in one room almost gave John apoplexy: when he came home to find the Sunroom, a bright room with lots of windows, swathed in dark green material, like a bizarre wedding marquee, he was furious. He tore it down then and there”.
John Lennon's Sunroom June 29th 1967
Hunter Davies recalls a meeting with John at Kenwood:"The first memory that always comes back is swimming in John's pool at his house in Weybridge. I'd gone to spend the day with him, but when I arrived, it turned out he had decided it was a day for not talking. I walked round his garden with him, not talking. Cynthia made lunch and we ate it, not talking. I sat with John in his cramped little den, under a sticker saying "Safe as Milk" while he watched children's television, not talking.Then we had a swim, round and round in his pool, not talking, but while we were swimming, we suddenly heard the noise of a police siren floating up the hill from Weybridge itself. It was giving that familiar two-note wail - Ah, ahh, ah ahh, ah, ahh. John started playing with the two notes - humming them, while not actually talking.Then he went inside, went to his piano, till he had turned the two notes into a song, or at least half a song."
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