The Finer Things
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The five most beautiful Advent Calendars of Christmas
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Lost and then found: A missing painting by Lord Leighton returns to London
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The Aston Martin DB12 Volante: 671 horsepower wrapped in a smoking jacket
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Skate at Somerset House is the friendliest thing you'll ever do in London
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Masterpieces in miniature: Where art and elegance meets the precision of timekeeping
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When Christian Dior came to Scotland: 'I was even more struck by the beauty of the country, the castles, and the moors, than I had expected'
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An unofficial guide to some very nice whiskies that you can drink this Christmas (or before, if you like)
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St Moritz and the slopes of hazard: How a Victorian bet sparked the Swiss resort's love affair with adrenaline-pumping winter sports
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Bentley tells us the future and announces fully electric car for 2026
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'The regular Satanic sort of thing', 'an appurtenance of terror', or 'capillary decorations': The moustache still divides opinion
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What do you get the dog that has everything? A shepherd's hut with a heated towel rail
Style & Fashion
The Country Life guide to weddings
Motoring
Art & Auctions
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The £7,500 peacock that brings grace, elegance and beauty... but without the noise and the defecation
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Opinion: A vanishingly rare thing has happened — we have a minister for culture who actually sounds like he's visited some of the places he has responsibility for
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The genius inventors who created the world's most important clocks
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An exhibition that brings together the gun that started the First World War, Hemingway's typewriter, Captain Scott's snow goggle and Sgt Pepper's Drum
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'As a child I wanted to snuggle up with the dogs and be part of it': Alexia Robinson chooses her favourite painting
My Favourite Painting
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The Pre-Raphaelite painter who swapped 'willowy, nubile women' for stained glass — and created some of the best examples in Britain
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'I can’t look away. I’m captivated': The painter who takes years over each portrait, with the only guarantee being that it won't look like the subject
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My Favourite Painting: Rob Houchen
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My Favourite Painting: Jeremy Clarkson
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The chair of the National Gallery names his favourite from among the 2,300 masterpieces — and it will come as a bit of a shock
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'A wonderful reminder of what the countryside could and should be': The 200-year-old watercolour of a world fast disappearing