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The most sought-after paintings by English artists working today are those that verge on abstraction -
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Cuttings not cakes: The sublime story of the Secret Orchard Nursery -
An Art Deco delight with a walled garden, a 17th-century rose parterre and its own boating lake -
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'There was nothing Daisy could not consume with no repercussions other than human rage': Meet the dogs who really run Country Life
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'Her "wellness ecosystem" more resembles a members' club than pet care': Five ways to spoil your dogs with ultimate luxury -
One billion years old and the rarest colour of them all: A five minute guide to the pink diamond -
'I wake up and still can’t quite believe that I live here': Sophie Conran on her first house in the country -
'The human equivalent would be able to leap across London's Park Lane': The wonderful world of insects
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An Art Deco delight with a walled garden, a 17th-century rose parterre and its own boating lake -
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Best country houses for sale this week -
A grand Scottish paradise for sale, just along the coast from the Mull of Kintyre -
'One of the most exciting properties in years' is on the open market in Guernsey, blending Swiss Family Robinson with Bond villain style -
A glittering evening at Bruton Place -
Traditional style meets contemporary comfort in this Georgian mansion in Scotland -
Sarah Corbett-Winder: Why I packed up a life in London and went to Wales
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'Works of craftsmanship that bring these rooms to life': Thirlestane Castle's spectacular 17th century plasterwork -
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Even a visit from Queen Mary couldn't save this 15th-century Yorkshire mansion from Britain's coal industry -
Curraghmore: The great Irish house transformed by the most 'brilliant, exasperating, expensive and chaotic' architect of the 18th century -
What to do with the remains of Glasgow's Mackintosh building? -
Bird poo fuelled the First World War and also financed this manor house with a plant collection that rivals Kew -
One family, six centuries and an Irish house of unsurpassed beauty: The fascinating tale of Curraghmore -
'They will never be for the purists': The relentless, referential and upbeat joy of postmodern buildings -
The great Tudor hall that housed the guillotine probably used on Marie Antoinette
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African Kuba cloth is the antithesis of our increasingly digital and mechanised world -
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How this apartment in the historic heart of London went from underwhelming white box to somewhere with comfort, character and sense of place -
How to introduce colour and comfort to a traditional farmhouse -
'We cracked the padlock and found a mountainful of asbestos, so that wasn't ideal': The secret spaces in our finest country houses -
The Nottingham kitchen that honours a home's remarkable 19th century resident -
The best art dealers to help you furnish your home, as chosen by Britain's leading designers, architects and creative minds -
The best antique dealers across the country, as chosen by Britain's top interior designers, architects and garden designers -
The best furniture makers in Britain, as chosen by the nation's top designers and architects
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Cuttings not cakes: The sublime story of the Secret Orchard Nursery -
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Bountiful, blowsy and scented: The gravity-defying walled garden at the Palace of Bishop Auckland -
A summer of prickles and rashes, splinters, scrapes and scratches, a season of stings: Nature is biting back -
The Somerset house that brought 'jungle gardening' to the English -
'If you garden like this, it is almost impossible to get help — it’s more akin to doing a painting or an embroidery': The exotic and wonderful Copper House garden in Kent -
'Stately, spacious and much more enjoyable': The RHS garden show that outdoes Chelsea
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'There was nothing Daisy could not consume with no repercussions other than human rage': Meet the dogs who really run Country Life
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The McLaren McL 6GT wins Monterey Car Week by keeping it simple, stupid -
Finding gold: An unexpected journey from river to ring -
The DS No. 8: 'Quite stylish, but if it snatched your phone you’d have a dickens of a time describing it to the police'
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The pretty and practical art form documenting Britain’s great estates -
In classical times this bird was sacred to Aphrodite and for millennia served as an erotic symbol -
'A shared experience unlike any other in Britain since the Blitz': What have we learned since summer 1976?
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The most sought-after paintings by English artists working today are those that verge on abstraction -
Fields of gold: Our finest art has been inspired by home-grown produce -
Glass half full: The beautifully fragile artform that has taken the world by storm -
Athena: The best stage for contemporary art is inside our historic houses and gardens
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From Wilde to Woolf, the great and the good have all stayed at Hotel Café Royal -
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'The ground floor is a sweet shop for grown-ups': Country Life's favourite London spas and treatments -
Ahãma hotel review: Turkey's new waterfront resort is as popular with wildlife as it is with the yachties -
Looking for a New England: How to have a whale of a time in the American Salcombe -
Rodel House review: Scandi-Scot chic on the original home of Harris Tweed -
'If there is a European hotel with more magical swim spots then I have yet to find it': Stay on the private island of the man behind the world’s favourite pastis
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'The caviar of its day': How the cucumber sandwich conquered tea time -
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A brief and compelling history of how whisky took over the world -
What is everyone talking about this week: Is this to be the worst apple harvest in history? -
Tom Parker Bowles: 'Without dressing, salad is little more than an incongruous jumble of clueless vegetation' -
'You can be a great chef, but until you understand where your ingredients come from you don’t know the whole package': Diving for scallops in Jersey -
'The whole idea was to create a bit of a two fingers to the likes of Whispering Angel': Raise a glass to England's sparkling rosé -
Meals on wheels: How the railways transformed how we eat
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