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Magma fire pit, £1,200, Magmafirepits (07905 266825; www.magmafirepits.co.uk)
EcoSmart stainless-steel Stix
, £1,999, Smart Fire UK (020–7384 1677; www.smartfireuk.com)
Large rustic bronze-steel fire bowl by Theydon
, £64.95, Coast & Country Store (0844 567 2354; www.coastandcountrystore.com)
The Twisted Tree Ball
, in natural finish, from £949, or heat-resistant paint, from £1,029, The Firepit Company (07977 222884; www.thefirepitcompany.co.uk)
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Phoenix flower steel fire pit
by Arpe Studio UK, £249, Not On The High Street (www.notonthehighstreet.com)
Giant Titan black cast-iron chiminea and barbecue
, £699.95, Coast & Country Store (0844 567 2354; www.coastandcountrystore.com)
Galloping Horses fire bowl,
in natural finish, from £499, or heat-resistant paint, from £579, The Firepit Company (07977 222884; www.thefirepitcompany.co.uk)
La Hacienda Malmo steel chiminea with log store
, £104, Fireplace Products (08453 455496; www.fireplaceproducts.co.uk)
Annunciata grew up in the wilds of Lancashire and now lives in Hampshire with a husband, two daughters and an awful pug called Parsley. She’s been floating round the Country Life office for more than a decade, her work winning the Property Magazine of the Year Award in 2022 (Property Press Awards). Before that, she had a two-year stint writing ‘all kinds of fiction’ for The Sunday Times Travel Magazine, worked in internal comms for Country Life’s publisher (which has had many names in recent years but was then called IPC Media), and spent another year researching for a historical biographer, whose then primary focus was Graham Greene and John Henry Newman and whose filing system was a collection of wardrobes and chests of drawers filled with torn scraps of paper. During this time, she regularly gave tours of 17th-century Milton Manor, Oxfordshire, which may or may not have been designed by Inigo Jones, and co-founded a literary, art and music festival, at which Johnny Flynn headlined. When not writing and editing for Country Life, Annunciata is also a director of TIN MAN ART, a contemporary art gallery founded in 2021 by her husband, James Elwes.
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