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  • Country Life2 min de lecture
    Athena
    LAST Friday, 12 much-loved paintings from the National Gallery in London appeared on public display in museums across the country, from Edinburgh to Aberystwyth and from Bristol to Brighton. The paintings, which are on loan for different periods of b
    Country Life6 min de lecture
    Thumbs Down
    IT was a matter of life and death, a fight for the survival of the standards of French art, so Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824–1904) put his foot down and his pen to paper. Vehemently opposed to Gustave Caillebotte’s bequest of Impressionist paintings to the
    Country Life2 min de lecture
    Dining En Plein Air
    Grymsdyke Manor, in the Chilterns village of Lacey Green near Princes Risborough, not only has a terrace overlooking its expansive, private 4½-acre garden, but a swimming pool and floodlit tennis court—everything for summer. Another plus for some is
    Country Life5 min de lecture
    Beneath The Boughs
    THIS year’s RHS Chelsea Flower Show sees the return of garden designer Tom Stuart-Smith with his first show garden in 14 years. A Gold medallist eight times and winner of three Bests in Show, he was drawn back by the chance to create a show garden fo
    Country Life2 min de lecture
    My Favourite Painting Cindy Sughrue
    Where burthen’dThames reflectsthe crowded sail,Commercial care andbusy toil prevail,Whose murky veil,aspiring to theskies,Obscures thy beauty,and thy formdenies,Save where thyspires pierce thedoubtful air,As gleams of hopeamidst a worldof care ‘Londo
    Country Life3 min de lecture
    Letters To The Editor
    LAST year, you published a story about the Swift Project started by Harbury Parish Council in Warwickshire (Town & Country, May 17, 2023). I was inspired by this to start our own project, Save our Clare Swifts, supported by Clare Town Council. It has
    Country Life3 min de lecture
    Mane Stay
    YOU may associate horsehair with the stuffing inside old mattresses and padded chairs, but a more visible and prestigious use lies in the woven upholstery of antique furniture. Today, this hardwearing textile with its pearlescent sheen attracts conte
    Country Life5 min de lecture
    Wonders Of The Weald
    FOR more than 1,000 years, people have shaped the natural beauty of the High Weald, a medieval landscape of wooded rolling hills and scattered farmsteads spread over 564 square miles across the counties of Kent, Sussex and Surrey. The ancient village
    Country Life7 min de lecture
    A Lily Among Weeds
    THE burden of designing the Royal Courts of Justice on the Strand was too much for the architect George Edmund Street: according to his son, Arthur Edmund Street, he died from overwork. However, at least he is remembered in the cavernous great hall o
    Country Life2 min de lecture
    The Greatest Show On Earth
    Future Publishing Ltd, 121–141 Westbourne Terrace, Paddington, London W2 6JR 0330 390 6591; www.countrylife.co.uk IT is no coincidence that what we now know as the Chelsea Flower Show, probably the greatest such event in the world, was, from the begi
    Country Life4 min de lecture
    Go To Town (and Country)
    I HAVE just been listening to one of the most charming dealer interviews that I remember and I would recommend it to anyone who is nervous about buying from galleries or shops, whether or not they are interested in rugs and textiles. Ulrike Montigel
    Country Life9 min de lecture
    My Art Is In The Garden
    CATHERINE MACDONALD was hopelessly lost. She had been wandering around the National Gallery, zigzagging from room to room, so absorbed in the artworks that she no longer knew where she was. ‘I had to go and find a map to get myself out,’ she laughs.
    Country Life5 min de lecture
    A Timeless View
    The garden of Pusey House, Oxfordshire The home of Mr and Mrs Richard Perlhagen WHEN Pusey House came to the market in 2010, the selling agent called it ‘one of England’s most beautiful houses’. Even allowing for the well-known enthusiasm of estate a
    Country Life4 min de lecture
    Summer
    THIS is our busiest month, as we are still sowing seeds, pricking out/potting up, harvesting, delivering and—perhaps most importantly—planting. By now, hopefully all our annual beds have been thoroughly weeded, hoed and raked down ready for the seedl
    Country Life4 min de lecture
    All I Need Is The Air That I Breathe
    IT seems strange now to think that oxygen required discovery, so perhaps ‘identifying’ or ‘isolating’ would sit better. Whichever, I suspect that those who have experienced intense pain relieved by gas and air or the panic of gasping for breath calme
    Country Life5 min de lecture
    Sweet Chamomile, Good Times Never Seemed So Good
    WITH its pristine white petals grouped around a yolky heart, chamomile adds cheer to our verges, cliffs and meadows in summer and releases a fruity fragrance when trodden underfoot. It’s this sweet scent that explains its name, taken from the Greek w
    Country Life3 min de lecture
    Slugging It Out
    GARDENERS have been at war with slugs since the dawn of time (or, rather, the dawn of gardening). They munch our prize plants and offer little mitigation to make such crimes forgivable, lacking beauty, grace or other charming attributes. The best we
    Country Life3 min de lecture
    Seating Plans
    ARE you sitting comfortably? The answer to this, in most gardens, will be no. Or not very, unless you have come armed with a battery of cushions to soften the unforgiving wood, metal or plastic that, given 10 minutes or so, will be digging into your
    Country Life5 min de lecture
    The Year Of The Tree
    WOODPECKERS are drumming. A blackbird runs through his repertoire from the highest branches, as the trees unfurl brand-new leaves in translucent, luminous greens. The flowers of hedge bank and woodland edge—alkanet, campion, Queen Anne’s lace—beckon
    Country Life1 min de lecture
    Miss Helen Chester St Maur Stewart
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    Country Life3 min de lecture
    No Excuses Left
    LAST week, the local-election results dominated the headlines and, dramatic as they were, they over shadowed the result of a court case that may well influence British politics even more fundamentally. It all started more than two years ago, when cam
    Country Life4 min de lecture
    Falstaff Reimagined
    I HAVE long argued that the two parts of Henry IV are Shakespeare’s greatest achievement. Although I yearn to see the works played in their entirety, I admit that Robert Icke has done a skilful job in condensing them into a single evening in Player K
    Country Life3 min de lecture
    The Fire Within
    I CLEARLY recall my father insisting on horseradish sauce on Sundays. I tried it once and, after a bit of gasping, came quickly to the understanding that grown ups were insane. I still dislike it in its full fiery glory, but sometimes use it in neute
    Country Life1 min de lecture
    A Brush With Sparkles
    THE sparkling display of artistic tribute to the National Gallery from Boodles comprises four astonishing suites inspired by masterful strokes of artistic genius. Three of them—Play of Light, Brush Strokes and Perspective—draw on painterly expression
    Country Life1 min de lecture
    Country Life
    Editor-in-Chief Mark Hedges Editor’s PA/Editorial Assistant Amie Elizabeth White 6102 Deputy Editor Kate Green 4171 Managing & Features Editor Paula Lester 6426 Architectural Editor John Goodall Gardens Editor Tiffany Daneff 6115 Executive Editor and
    Country Life5 min de lecture
    Town & Country Notebook
    1) In which year was the Great Fireof London? 2) Olympian Claudia Fragapane retired from which sport earlier this year? 3) A baldric is a type of what? 4) Which city in New Zealand shares its name with an Oxford College? 5) What couldn’t a bird do wi
    Country Life6 min de lecture
    Lutyens Revisited
    Clive Aslet (Triglyph Books, £20) FOLLOWING his death in 1944, Sir Edwin Lutyens seemed an anachronism. Architectural fashion was against the designer of the Viceroy’s House in New Delhi and a multitude of country houses for Edwardian plutocrats. A m
    Country Life9 min de lecture
    The Icarus effect
    TEN years ago, the inaugural publication of the Tall Buildings Survey at the ‘London’s Growing Up!’ exhibition staged by New London Architecture, EC2, predicted the imminent arrival of 236 tower blocks (20 storeys or more). That figure has mushroomed
    Country Life4 min de lecture
    Of Roses And Strawberries, Cherry Blossom And Crushed Turf
    A MID all the hoopla that surrounds the horticultural event of the year that we call the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, at its heart is a group of folk who continue a tradition that is as old as Adam. It would be a travesty if they were regarded as merely
    Country Life2 min de lecture
    Kitchen Garden Cook Carrots
    ▸ Start by heating a splash of olive oil in a large saucepan and add the chopped onion, cooking until soft and translucent. Add the garlic and ginger, cook for a couple of minutes and then add the carrots. Pour overthe stock and bring toa simmer, coo

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