Making the cut

Adam Short on his path to the top, his Adele moment at Paris 2025, and why attention to detail is key

Full disclosure: I’ve known Nicky Hambleton-Jones for 25 years. We met at a book club when we were both lonely souls who had just landed in Britpop ’90s London – me from the North East of England and

Mr Dear is hair today, and gone tomorrow

Straight-talking, mad about make-up and proud to be an Essex girl, Dame Helen Mirren tells Annie Vischer what it means to be an icon

This month, embrace the spirit of coastal living, shop for the perfect headboard, and refresh your space with botanical prints that bring nature indoors

Country Life’s Top 100 designers and architects reveal the outstanding specialists on whom they rely