Country Life July 27 2016
Country Life July 27 2016 embraces dogs in art, Chatsworth's flowers and lazy summer days.


Country Life July 27 2016 embraces dogs in art, Chatsworth's flowers and lazy summer days. Find out more:
CHATSWORTH: The annual Florabundance event brings the excellence of Chatsworth House’s gardens inside, reports Jacky Hobbs.
ARCHITECTURE: The first great Palladian country house of Ireland is undergoing restoration and conservation at the hands of the Office of Public Works. Jeremy Musson reports.
GARDENS: Henry VIII ordered cherries to be planted in Kent, the garden of England, where they continue to flourish, says Nick Hammond.
DOGS: Jonathan Self reveals how dogs, poised at our side for centuries, have nestled their way into our hearts and into our art.
MOTORCYCLES: The Triumph has long been the film stars’ motorcycle of choice, says Hugh Francis Anderson.
COOKING: Melanie Johnson chooses courgetti over spaghetti.
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LUXURY: Hetty Chidwick learns what Roger Daltrey and Katherine Jenkins couldn’t live without, the key to Steinway pianos and what’s been happening in the world of luxury.
PROPERTY: Life goes on in the Cotswolds, reports Penny Churchill and Arabella Youens picks the best properties below £2 million.
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Agnes has worked for Country Life in various guises — across print, digital and specialist editorial projects — before finally finding her spiritual home on the Features Desk. A graduate of Central St. Martins College of Art & Design she has worked on luxury titles including GQ and Wallpaper* and has written for Condé Nast Contract Publishing, Horse & Hound, Esquire and The Independent on Sunday. She is currently writing a book about dogs, due to be published by Rizzoli New York in September 2025.
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