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January 03, 2024

Ideas for creating a luxury bathing and dressing sanctuary at home, selected by Amelia Thorpe

- Amelia Thorpe

Making a splash

Style service

Bathroom retailer Ripples is well known for its design services. Shown here are Brushed Black basin mixer, £232, with basin, £1,093, vanity, £741, and mirror with anti-mist pad, £735 (0800 107 0700; www.ripples bathrooms.com)

New classic

Blending Art Deco inspiration with modern colour, the BC Designs Victrion 1000 Angled four-door basin unit is shown here in Forest Green with a Black marble top, £2,706, from West One Bathrooms (0333 011 3333; www.westone bathrooms.com)

Marble moment

Create a warm backdrop with Fitz Claret honed marble tiles, from £118.56 per sq m, contrasted with Porcini Emperador honed marble, in slab and tiles, from £76.75 per sq m, from Mandarin Stone (01600 715444; www.mandarin stone.com)

Clever curves 

The tubular styling of Perrin & Rowe's Langbourn freestanding bath/shower mixer, shown here in Pewter finish, £3,259 (01708 526361; www.perrinandrowe.co.uk), blends well with the curves of the Barcelona Classic freestanding bath, from £4,274, by sister brand Victoria + Albert Baths (01952 221100; www.vandabaths.com)

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Making up lost ground

The gardens of Wootton Hall, Staffordshire The home of Johnny and Laura Greenall This woodland garden is one of the most ambitious and successful made this century

time to read

5 mins

April 29, 2026

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All hail the 'glory of Britain'

Offa: King of the Mercians Rory Naismith (Yale, £30)

time to read

6 mins

April 29, 2026

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Burnt butter, miso and watercress columns of Pompeii

Kitchen garden cook Watercress

time to read

1 min

April 29, 2026

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Childhood lost and found

When he stumbles across a box of Nature books in the attic on a bright April morning, John Lewis-Stempel is transported from a donkey-identification hunt to a land of long ago and far away

time to read

4 mins

April 29, 2026

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Wild arts run free

A new, sustainable, small opera company is sweeping through our country-house gardens. Ysenda Maxtone-Graham reports

time to read

3 mins

April 29, 2026

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Le Sirenuse Mare, Italy

It was here, in Positano, that Hercules lost his heart to a nymph called Amalfi and where the very concept of la dolce vita was born.

time to read

1 mins

April 29, 2026

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'Gold bubbles rising into sky'

A wader with a haunting call, the enigmatic curlew has inspired both gloom and life-affirming joy in the hearts of some of our greatest writers

time to read

5 mins

April 29, 2026

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A garden lover's library

George Saumarez Smith reveals his design for COUNTRY LIFE's stand at this year's RHS Chelsea Flower Show, which embodies his passions for architecture, drawing and books, and his fiancée Jane Kennerley's love of plants

time to read

5 mins

April 29, 2026

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A study in history

JAMES NASON and his son Edward read at the table of the new library at Pitchford Hall. This striking Gothic interior was created in Shropshire with the help of the Kennedy family at nearby Acton Round Hall and a company of talented cabinetmakers.

time to read

1 min

April 29, 2026

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A leap in the dark

Francisco de Zurbarán captured the intense spirituality of Counter-Reformation Spain in highly charged paintings moulded by the contrast of light and shadow, often using tenebrism to almost shocking effect

time to read

7 mins

April 29, 2026

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