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Country Life UK
Into the Goodwood
At the magical Goodwood Art Foundation, a pineapple perches on a chalk bank, 16th-century music bathes an ancient copse and Rachel Whiteread’s cast of the underside of stairs climbs Escher-like into the sky. Charlotte Mullins goes exploring
6 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
WE are bowling along a wide, straight road out of Muscat, Oman, when the conversation turns to camels.
2 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
A capital show
Classic Art London, born from the ashes of London Art Week, puts a spotlight on pre-contemporary art with a whirlwind of exhibitions, talks and pieces that range from Titian to Edgar Degas and Paul Nash
4 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
Where angels dare
THE romanticism of an artist modelling the face of an angel on that of his paramour in a mosaic surrounded by lush green foliage has certainly stood the test of time.
1 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
The art of exterior decoration
The success of this stand at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show—which was awarded four stars— reveals Isabella Worsley’s versatility as a designer.
1 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
Interiors: The designer's room
The deep-lustre copper brings a period glamour to this kitchen by deVOL
1 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
The original Spitfire
Size doesn’t matter when it comes to the fighting spirit of the tiny merlin, a fierce parent and favoured hunting accessory of Mary, Queen of Scots
3 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
A room with a view
Jane Austen spent the last days of her life in rented lodgings in Winchester, Hampshire. Adam Rattray describes the remarkable recent discoveries made about the house in which she died
6 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
Well worth the trouble
IT'S often when I have my hands full of shopping, perhaps when the car parking is running out, that I see a rare display of perfect romanesco.
3 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
Up the river
SOME 66% of UK rivers show unacceptable pollution levels, according to the results garnered by almost 8,000 citizen scientists who took part in the Great UK WaterBlitz this April, testing 4,017 freshwater sites for nitrates and phosphates.
1 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
Hampshire hotties
With rolling valleys, serene rivers and architectural character aplenty, what's not to like about this county?
2 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
Sounding the alarm
THE show season is fully under way.
2 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
A garden is but a moment in time
I SPENT happy hours (or was it minutes? Time moves so deliciously slowly for children) sitting behind a screen of pointed red leaves, which sprang like a fountain from a small tree in my grandmother's Hampshire garden.
2 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
New darling on the block
A refurbished palace and two new hotels are helping Madrid to break free from Barcelona's shadow, says Steven King
5 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
A treasury of art that repays a visit
SINCE its reopening early last month, Athena has taken every opportunity to drop into the National Gallery in London and absorb a bit more of the 200th-anniversary rehang of the collection.
2 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
Hampshire chronicles
Gin, witches, regicide, boats, nudists, an Egyptian curse, Spitfires, the invention of windsurfing and more writers and vineyards than you can shake a fishing rod at: this beloved English county has it all. Here are 13 stories you may never have heard about Hampshire
10+ min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
A song of art and fire
A drawing of a fierce little girl with her hair ablaze caught the imagination of Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst, reminding her at once of her daughter and of a small accident from her own childhood, as she reveals to Carla Passino
6 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
WOW!house talk
On Wednesday, June 25, Giles Kime will ask three leading designers whether a hard-working, practical space can be both useful and beautiful
1 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
A swift betrayal
SUMMER has truly dawned when our swifts arrive and, on June 7, these avian Spitfires will be celebrated in World Swift Day, with nest-site walks from Kazakhstan to Spain. From June 28-July 6, Swift Awareness Week UK will see events highlighting the extraordinary life cycle of these birds, which spend the vast majority of their time in the air. Nest-box footage shows young swifts doing press-ups: once fledged, they will not alight again for three years.
1 min |
June 04, 2025
Country Life UK
All in the family
Carlo Bugatti believed that any object could be a work of art, paving the way for his children, elegant Rembrandt and genial Ettore, to sculpt supple, predatory panthers and craft automotive masterpieces. Charles Harris traces their lives
5 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
Flushed with desire
\"Here they are, dissolving in laughter at his random predicament, the damsel and the dripping baronet
2 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
A famously good show
From tiny spots of the soft yellow buttercup to towering tree ferns from Co Kerry, SW3 was filled with interest large and small, finds Tiffany Daneff
3 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
Going a ganging
The ancient custom of 'beating' willow wands around parish perimeters is still performed today—minus the medieval brutality
3 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
Classic good looks
One of the most photographed stands at last week’s Chelsea Flower Show was COUNTRY LIFE’s ‘outdoor drawing room’, a tranquil Italianate loggia designed by Isabella Worsley
2 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
Kiss like a bee
MOST people who care about the countryside are deeply alive to the current plight of bees in Britain; the collapse in numbers is partly as a result of pesticide use, partly loss of habitat.
2 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
Treasures of the East
East Anglia appears to be full of wonders, from carriage driving and an escaped puma to a Harrods pavilion and ancient forests, as these houses show
6 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
Throwing caution to the wind
Spring is the time to see the muscular and noble goshawk, usually as elusive as a ghost circling and swooping through the sky
3 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
The age of calamity
IT'S now more than 60 years since the publication of May McKisack’s classic account of the 14th century, which appeared in the acclaimed ‘Oxford History of England’ series of volumes.
2 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog by Caspar David Friedrich
Charlotte Mullins comments on Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
2 min |
May 28, 2025
Country Life UK
Of pepper and pigsties
\"He was able to identify plants by the smell of their leaves'
3 min |