The genius of da vinci

Anthony Lawrence, a New Forest artist, painted everything from Dante’s Inferno to portraits of Ian McKellen and Yehudi Menuhin. This October, Palais des Vaches presents the first major retrospective o

THAT summer, for the first time, Gabriella had invested in a season membership of the Lido Club and it had been worth every cent. Not only had it given her access to one of the fenced-off sections of

It’s not often that a single life spans such vast and varied terrain—poverty and privilege, failure and triumph, disruption and discipline. Yet Gérard Lopez, the ever-driven Spanish/Luxembourgish entr

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

A DEEP DIVE INSIDE THE THEME MACHINE

There’s a moment that sneaks up on you in midlife – usually somewhere between your fourth Zoom of the day and a lunch that tastes vaguely like a recycled envelope – when a small but insistent question