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Architect Karolina Banasik shares the challenges of transforming a historic beach house on Dorset’s Ballard Estate into a sustainable, stormproof home

Marrakech’s warm colours, along with the talents of its traditional artisans, have brought fresh inspiration to one Belgian designer’s home

Semi-suspended over the water, this Malibu Cove home is made for martini hours on the terrace – so design studio LALA Reimagined leaned into that for the refresh

At the magical Goodwood Art Foundation, a pineapple perches on a chalk bank, 16th-century music bathes an ancient copse and Rachel Whiteread’s cast of the underside of stairs climbs Escher-like into the sky. Charlotte Mullins goes exploring

What’s in a Year: A Countryman’s Tale Through ...

One of the most photographed stands at last week’s Chelsea Flower Show was COUNTRY LIFE’s ‘outdoor drawing room’, a tranquil Italianate loggia designed by Isabella Worsley, says Giles Kime