The people behind the houses

When COUNTRY LIFE’s Henry Avray Tipping spotted a 17th-century four poster languishing in a Herefordshire attic in 1911, he set off a chain of events that saw the bed leave its ancestral home and land at The Met in New York

In March 2019, gardener Jo Downes dropped in to Corsley House in Wiltshire to see a friend, and by the time she left she had a job. Glen Senk and Keith Johnson, Anglophile Americans who had bought the

Tricia Guild, the founder of Designers Guild, on why Cornwall’s rugged landscape holds a special place in her heart

FOR more than half a century, Hal Moggridge ...

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*We reserve the right to edit correspondence I was interested to read in your August issue that both John Craven’s article and the Q&A section – ‘How do I stay safe when wild swimming?’ – talked about