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Fabulous Britain: a Grand Tour Pistols now optionalÐtodayÕs plant hunters The art of planting trees and keeping a diary PLUS Samuel Pepys, Sophie Conran and Susie Atkinson. Sophie Conran’s favourite painting - The designer and cookery writer is bowled over by Botticelli’s Birth of Venus, which she first saw as a child visiting Florence.
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Farewell to a giantess of the trade
A selection of the late Jan Finch’s stock at Sworders reflects her wisdom, flair and eclectic taste
Bearing gifts, we traverse afar
Festive entertainment—music, ballet, pantomime— is easy to find at this time of year, but the Christmas opera is a rarer beast, suggests Henrietta Bredin
A remarkable restoration
IN torrential rain and buffeted by vicious cross winds, I drove over the old Severn Bridge into Wales recently to meet Helena Gerrish at High Glanau Manor, her house near Monmouth, originally designed for himself by Henry Avray Tipping.
Trumpet majors
The magnificent new glasshouse display at West Dean, West Sussex, shows why it's time that hippeastrums came in from the cold, says John Hoyland
Welcome to the party
Tired of hiding away the fine cutlery and taking down the family heirlooms? Then where better to entertain than a party barn?
Halfway houses
Two properties could be greater than the sum of their parts with a little investment, as another shows that a ruin is anything but
Putting a barn to work
Transforming a barn into a wedding venue, accommodation—or both— can be a nice little earner, finds Arabella Youens
A room for all reasons
Party barns were once little more than useful venues for large social gatherings, but now, former agricultural buildings are being converted into multifunctional spaces that are transforming rural properties, finds Arabella Youens
Nature's way
THE Michelin-starred chef of Berkshire’s Coworth Park, Adam Smith (formerly of The Ritz), has just opened Coworth’s new restaurant, Woven, and it is outstanding.
Taking the right turn
Joey Richardson's artwork is so exquisite that the Royal Warrant Holders Association asked her to create a gift for the Queen. Serena Shores meets the master craftswoman taking the ancient art of woodturning to new heights Photographs
