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Snake, rattle and roll
Imported from India, Snakes and Ladders has been stripped of its demigods, Heaven and other spiritual elements, until only the dice and an ability to count remain, finds Rob Crossan
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January 29, 2025
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A Palladian premonition
Bramham Park, West Yorkshire, part I The home of Nick and Rachel Lane Fox - In the first of three articles, Richard Hewlings examines one of the most original and idiosyncratic houses of early 18th-century Yorkshire and offers a fresh analysis of its architecture
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January 29, 2025
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Living in eclectic dreams
Next month's auction at Sworders marks the final chapter in the extraordinary story of the legendary London antique dealer, Guinevere. For 60 years, its highly distinctive approach inspired Mick Jagger, Ralph Lauren, Valentino and generations of interior designers. Its influence has changed the trade forever, says COUNTRY LIFE's interiors editor, Giles Kime
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January 29, 2025
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Wedding peace of mind
On your big day, good things happen in The Insurance Emporium
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January 22, 2025
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Smash hits
The end of last year saw some great sales, as one of the few works by Botticelli still in private hands and a painting by brothers Gustav and Ernst Klimt obliterated their estimates
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January 22, 2025
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Those old familiar faces
Former homes of persons of note, including rock royalty, writers and gin pioneers, are as covetable as ever
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January 22, 2025
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Quick on the draw
The skills of John Flaxman, idol of all dilettanti’, brought the classics of literature to life, but also his fellow artists, as art dealer Tom Edwards tells Carla Passino
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January 22, 2025
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The architect as religious teacher
‘He stands out for austere highmindedness combined with a rich sense of decoration
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January 22, 2025
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Coming up roses
The sight of row upon row of roses in bloom at Whartons nurseries in Norfolk is even more magnificent than the tulip fields of Holland. Charles Quest-Ritson looks behind the scenes at our largest rose producer
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January 22, 2025
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My favourite painting Jennifer Francis
'The Migration Series' by Jacob Lawrence
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January 22, 2025
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Cold comforts
\"I have never encountered a parsnip on a foreign plate\"
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January 22, 2025
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The legacy
Bamber Gascoigne and University Challenge
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January 22, 2025
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Regency revival
Brockfield Hall, North Yorkshire The home of Mr Charlie and the Hon Mrs Wood An award-winning restoration project has revived this compact Regency house as a modern family home. John Martin Robinson reports Photographs by Paul Highnam
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January 22, 2025
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Dark of the sun
Samuel Palmer painted golden landscapes that seem pickled in honey, but his visionary work met with mockery and only found recognition long after his death, as Maev Kennedy discovers
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January 22, 2025
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Onwards to Croydon!
A faithful staging of the much-loved Ballet Shoes is a triumph and Sir Simon Russell Beale is outstanding as a melancholy poet in an overdue Stoppard revival
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January 22, 2025
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Charmed, I'm sure
There can barely be a parish that doesn't play host to a selection of our 12 British finches, notes Mark Cocker, as he admires their tuneful song and thick, stubby beaks, capable of crunching even the toughest nut
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January 22, 2025
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All aboard!
More reliable than Greater Anglia or South Western Railway, there's a cast of commuters bound for the capital that you can’t miss, says Madeleine Silver
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January 22, 2025
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Interiors The designer's room
Luxury bathroom specialist Drummonds added scale and drama to the bathroom of a Grade II-listed manor house in Surrey
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January 22, 2025
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Hold on to your bonnets
Hold on to your bonnets Whether comic books and operas or granny knickers and counting orgasms, the legacy of Jane Austen, who would have been 250 this year, may have shocked the author, finds Annunciata Elwes
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January 22, 2025
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Squeeze the day
Lift the spirits with a bowl of rosy-red blood oranges or a crate of Sevilles, ready for the preserving pan, says Jane Wheatley
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January 22, 2025
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Give it some stick
Galloping through the imagination, competitive hobby-horsing is a gymnastic sport on the rise in Britain, discovers Sybilla Hart
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December 25, 2024
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Paper escapes
Steven King selects his best travel books of 2024
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December 25, 2024
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For love, not money
This year may have marked the end of brag-art’, bought merely to show off one’s wealth. It’s time for a return to looking for connoisseurship, beauty and taste
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December 25, 2024
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Mary I: more bruised than bloody
Cast as a sanguinary tyrant, our first Queen Regnant may not deserve her brutal reputation, believes Geoffrey Munn
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December 25, 2024
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A love supreme
Art brought together 19th-century Norwich couple Joseph and Emily Stannard, who shared a passion for painting, but their destiny would be dramatically different
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December 25, 2024
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Private views
One of the best ways-often the only way-to visit the finest privately owned gardens in the country is by joining an exclusive tour. Non Morris does exactly that
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December 25, 2024
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Shhhhhh...
THERE is great delight to be had poring over the front pages of COUNTRY LIFE each week, dreaming of what life would be like in a Scottish castle (so reasonably priced, but do bear in mind the midges) or a townhouse in London’s Eaton Square (worth a king’s ransom, but, oh dear, the traffic) or perhaps that cottage in the Cotswolds (if you don’t mind standing next to Hollywood A-listers in the queue at Daylesford). The estate agent’s particulars will give you details of acreage, proximity to schools and railway stations, but never—no, never—an indication of noise levels.
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December 25, 2024
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Mission impossible
Rubble and ruin were all that remained of the early-19th-century Villa Frere and its gardens, planted by the English diplomat John Hookham Frere, until a group of dedicated volunteers came to its rescue. Josephine Tyndale-Biscoe tells the story
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December 25, 2024
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When a perfect storm hits
Weather, wars, elections and financial uncertainty all conspired against high-end house sales this year, but there were still some spectacular deals
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December 25, 2024
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Give the dog a bone
Man's best friend still needs to eat like its Lupus forebears, believes Jonathan Self, when it's not guarding food, greeting us or destroying our upholstery, of course
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