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March 2014 £3.99
Great enGlish interiors a private tour of Badminton house
child’s play Furnishing children’s rooms
incrediBle transFormations From pigsty to parterre
reviving a tired town house
Facades get a facelift
Living history At Badminton, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort have preserved the house’s historic interiors while creating a comfortable setting for family life Text James Peill | Photographs James Fennell
THIS PAGE The north front of Badminton is an amalgamation of different architects’ work; the pediment and cupolas were added by William Kent, who also added the giant rusticated pilasters to James Gibbs’s flanking pavilions at each end. OPPOSITE Allan Ramsay’s state portrait of Queen Charlotte, wife of
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The formal gardens that surround this sixteenth-century chateau in the Dordogne were created from scratch, including a courtyard garden built on the site of a former pigsty text Clare Foster | Photographs Le Scanff-Mayer
The courtyard garden at the Ch창teau de Losse was designed by the current owner, who used Renaissance prints to create a garden that would complement the sixteenth-century chateau. In the foreground, clipped crenellations of box on either side of the raised walkway are a nod to the parapets that would have once enclosed the medieval fortress that pre-dated the chateau
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