Country Life UK Magazine - June 05, 2024

In this issue

Stuff and nonsense
Collectors explain their peculiar passions, from tanks to taxidermy, tulips to teddy bears, to Kate Green, Agnes Stamp, Tiffany Daneff and Octavia Pollock.

A Georgian vision
John Martin Robinson visits Gatewick in West Sussex and finds a modern country house harbouring an 18th-century spirit..

A rural reason to cheer

THERE was something particularly special for country people when one of the prestigious King’s Awards for Voluntary Service was presented last week.

2 mins

My favourite painting Beccy Speight

Charlotte Mullins comments on Rain

1 min

A Georgian vision

Gatewick, Steyning, West Sussex The former home of Charles, James and Primrose Yorke A combination of discerning architectural improvement and collecting in the 1950s created a modern country house in the 18th-century spirit.

7 mins

The longest day and the shortest night

June brings with it the magic of Midsummer’s Day, as well as a prediction for the coming harvest, says

1 min

Stuff and nonsense

Five collectors of unusual things, from taxidermy to tanks, tulips to teddies, explain their passions to COUNTRY LIFE

8 mins

Her green and pleasant land

Peggy Guggenheim, doyenne of avant-garde art, once lived at a Hampshire cottage in the woods. Mary Miers traces a rare domestic time in the American heiress’s life

5 mins

A walk on the wild side

The word ‘safari’ may evoke lions and Land Cruisers, but you’ll never run out of wildlife-based thrills on these shores. From seabird skyscrapers to ostentatious otters and rutting red deer, Ben Lerwill discovers the best British Nature trips on offer

7 mins

Standing on ceremony

As the sound of music, majesty and military precision marks The King’s Birthday Parade, Simon Doughty considers the evolution of the ceremonial uniform

6 mins

Fresh as a summer breeze

Once associated largely with gin, there is a host of easy-to-grow botanicals that will enliven both cocktail hour and mealtimes

4 mins

Little gem

A humble lambing shed has been transformed into a tranquil home office using both antiques and pieces repurposed from past projects

3 mins

Perfect manors

For the first time in a generation, two of England’s most pristine and private residential and sporting estates, Corby Castle in Cumbria and Wilsford Manor in Wiltshire, have come to the open market

5 mins

Come on down, the water's fine

Ratty might have preferred a picnic, but canalside fine dining is proving the key to success for new restaurant openings in east London today, finds Gilly Hopper

3 mins

All in good time

Two decades in the planning, The Emory, designed by Sir Richard Rogers, is open. Think of it as a sieve that retains the best of contemporary hotel-keeping and lets the empty banality flow away

2 mins

Floreat Etona

The link with the school and horticulture goes back to its royal founder, finds George Plumptre on a visit to the recently restored gardens

4 mins

Hey ho, hey ho, it's off to sow we go

JUNE can be a tricky month for the gardener.

3 mins

Charter me this

There’s a whole world out there waiting to be explored and one of the most exciting ways to see it is from the water, says Emma Love, who rounds up the best boat charters

3 mins

Don't rain on Venus's parade

TENNIS has never been sexier—at least, that is what multiple critics of the new film Challengers are saying.

2 mins

The rake's progress

Good looks, a flair for the theatrical and an excellent marriage made John Astley’s fortune, but also swayed ‘le Titien Anglois’ away from painting into a dissolute life of wine and women, with some collecting on the side

4 mins

Put it in print

Three sales furnished with the ever-rarer paper catalogues featured intriguing lots, including a North Carolina map by John Ogilby and a wine glass gibbeting Admiral Byng, the unfortunate scapegoat for the British loss of Minorca

4 mins

My heart is in the Highlands

A LISTAIR MOFFAT’S many books on Scottish history are distinctive for the way he weaves poetry and literature, language and personal experience into broad-sweeping studies of particular regions or themes. In his latest— and among his most ambitious in scope—he juxtaposes a passage from MacMhaighstir Alasdair’s great sea poem Birlinn Chlann Raghnaill with his own account of filming a replica birlinn (Hebridean galley) as it glides into the Sound of Mull, ‘larch strakes swept up to a high prow’, saffron sail billowing, water sparkling as its oars dip and splash. Familiar from medieval tomb carvings, the birlinn is a potent symbol of the power of the Lords of the Isles.

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Country Life; architecture, gardens, countryside, property, the very best of British life Published by IPC Media. 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.