Country Life

Published by Time Inc. (UK) Ltd Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.

Miss Carina Harford • Carina is an interior designer and founder of Harford House, a sustainable interior-design studio. She graduated as an English literature scholar from Christ’s College, University of Cambridge, and is the daughter of Henry and Eliza Harford of Grand Cayman.

Hope and glory

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Letters to the Editor

End of the honeymoon

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Inigo Lambertini

Homesick for the olden days • We didn’t know we had it so good

A Georgian triumph • This year’s Georgian Group’s Architectural Awards, sponsored by Savills, attracted another outstanding crop of entries. We reveal the winners, as chosen by a panel of judges chaired by COUNTRY LIFE’s Architectural Editor, John Goodall

Handsome and genteel • In the second of two articles, Jeremy Musson reports on the recent campaign to restore the memorable interiors of George and Martha Washington’s country home

The legacy Sir Richard and Lady Wallace and the Wallace Collection

Mud-gilded places • Part water, part earth and a habitat of constant movement, the bleak and desolate estuary environment is an acquired taste. Yet this monochrome minimalism can be paradise, finds John Lewis-Stempel

Our last hurrah • As the year marches on, a moment of calm reminds us to prepare our stores for the winter ahead, says Lia Leendertz

Bury me in a willow-shaped coffin • In the osier beds of Worcestershire and Somerset, the wind is still playing in the willows destined for baskets, ‘fedging’ and custom-made coffins, finds Jane Wheatley

Another string to the bow • For British luthier Roger Hansell, a chance teenage encounter led to a lifetime devoted to making the perfect violin, discovers Harry Pearson

Pretty Chitty-Bang-Bang, we love you • As our fine four-fendered friend turns 60, Mary Miers relives the adventures of the magical flying car and reveals the little-known story of its creation

Call of the wild • Creativity knows no bounds, says Hetty Lintell, as these jewellers design jaw-dropping pieces inspired by wild beasts

Bright and beautiful • The latest paint hues and wallpaper designs, selected by Amelia Thorpe

Nice work in the West • With hybrid working now a fact of life, four special houses in Devon and Cornwall are well equipped to more than pay their way

Best foot forward • Some of the country’s finest estate agents let Annabel Dixonin on the secrets of prepping a country house for sale

London Life • Your indispensable guide to the capital

Need to Know

Pyramid scheme • In a city as large as London, the problem of where to lay the dead to rest is ever present. One extraordinary unfulfilled scheme would have made space for five million, finds Jack Watkins

To build or not to build • When it comes to the skyline, do we need to know when to say ‘enough is enough’, asks John Goodall

The world on the doorstep • England, Africa, Italy or China–it’s possible to travel the world without leaving this imaginatively designed garden, which divides into four distinct geographical sections. Each one has resonance for the...