Country Life

Published by TI Media Limited 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 Liberty Adam • Liberty is a communications officer for the Alsama Project, an education non-profit organisation in Beirut, Lebanon. She volunteers on the ground with the Shatila refugee camp and is the daughter of the Reverend William and Sarah Adam of Canterbury, Kent.

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Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

When advertising is nuts

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Nadja Swarovski

Country-house treasures

A hub for living • A new house of four discrete elements adopts vernacular forms and materials to striking effect, as Clive Aslet discovers

Eric Hosking and bird photography

The feather forecast • Avian plumage doesn’t simply enable flight–this miracle of Nature provides birds with protection, shape and colour and remains a highly desirable fashion accoutrement for us, too, finds Charles Harris

Let’s get ready to rumble • One of the most remarkable players in the Winter Olympics, Kays Scotland’s curling stones are both objets d’art and serious bits of sporting kit, discovers Harry Pearson

Hats off • The hatbox has long played second-fiddle to fashionable millinery itself, but, in its journey from Regency status symbol to most-elegant luggage in the golden age of travel, there’s a world of wonder to unpack, says Deborah Nicholls-Lee

The whole darn truth • Make do and mend is enjoying a creative revival. Debora Robertson gets out her darning wool and defies the tyranny of fast fashion, one stitch at a time

Luxury In season

A tryst with amethyst • Amie Elizabeth White celebrates the multi-faceted palette of February’s birthstone

Stars of the show • Amelia Thorpe previews the highlights at next month’s unmissable interiors event, London Design Week

Property news

Wood you believe it! • A timber addition to a home brings many elements to the party, not least practical extra space, sometimes arresting views and an aesthetic warmth that will always appeal to natural-materials enthusiasts

Asymmetric thinking • Understanding the language of the house was the key to creating a garden that would complement it, reveals Tiffany Daneff

Slowly does it

Kitchen garden cook Rhubarb

The writing’s on the forest walls • On a journey through the Pantanal in Brazil, Kate Eshelby questions what will happen to the wider world if we don’t learn to take conservation seriously

Arts & antiques

The golden touch • In a world dominated by mass production, digital life and, increasingly, artificial intelligence, our collective yearning for the unique and the tangible is spearheading a craft renaissance, as Corinne Julius discovers

Fair-brained schemes • Acceptance in lieu and similar cultural-gift provisions benefit museums, collectors and the public alike

Paradise revisited • The late Sir Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece is revived and there are great reworkings of Strindberg and a teenage Coward’s play

MPs behaving badly is nothing new

A rum deal • In the light of the Royal Navy’s decision to ban sailors from drinking alcohol for at least two...