Country & Town House - September 2019

THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

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COUNTRY SPORTS SPECIAL

AN ICON IS BORN

Land Rover’s birthplace

A STELLA LINE-UP

Alexa Chung and Stella McCartney return to their rural roots

Downton’s Diva JOANNE FROGGATT AND HER COMPLEX CHARACTERS

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COLUMNS 16 18

THE GOOD LIFE Alice B-B won’t be sharing her latest holiday snaps THE RURBANIST Gabriella Wilde

UP FRONT 21 22

FIELDS OF GOLD Bucolic bling HAUTE HERITAGE Modern country classics mix materials 24 STYLE NOTEBOOK Beige is back 26 MY STYLE Stacey Bendet 28 THE GOLD DIGGER Olivia Palermo’s favourite pendant 30 LUCIA LOVES Breathing new life into Barbour’s historic designs 34 BODY LANGUAGE Beat the bloat 36 COVER GIRL Get Joanne Froggatt’s look 38 POWDER ROOM Nearly naked lips 39 BODY & SOUL Big-up the biodynamic 40 WELL GROOMED Men’s style news

THE GUIDE 45 48 50 51 52 54

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THE DIARY Fabulous Fanny Cradock ARTS AGENDA Caiti Grove visits Norman Ackroyd’s South London studio GOOD READS Is Sophia Money-Coutts the new Jilly Cooper?

THE OLYMPIAN Baroness Campbell of Loughborough ROAD TEST Jeremy Taylor takes a Cornish road trip FROM SMALL ACORNS Teresa Levonian Cole pays homage to the Prince of Wales’ passion project SEEDER’S DIGEST Bright bulbs CONVERSATIONS AT SCARFES BAR What does marriage counselling have to do with the peace process? Matthew Bell meets Gabrielle Rifkind to find out

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MAID OF STEEL As Downton Abbey comes to the silver screen, Lucy Cleland asks Joanne Froggatt about life after Downton on the set of our cover shoot at Heckfield Place

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COUNTRY WEEKEND Get suited and booted for the shooting season THE FIELD OF FASHION Stella McCartney and Alexa Chung give goretex a sprinkling of style stardust DON’T BE A BORE Feel out of your depth outside of the M25? Read Eleanor Doughty’s ultimate countryside A to Z REBORN TO RUN Jeremy Taylor makes a pilgrimage to the birthplace of Land Rover in a ‘Reborn’ classic Range Rover DRUNK DRIVES A shoot is hardly ever about the birds, according to Adam Edwards

THE INSIDER 85 86 88 90 91

GORGEOUSLY GRAINY Roksanda redesigns an old gasholder FEATHER YOUR NEST With shooting party spoils DESIGN NOTES News, views and inspiration by Carole Annett EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE Tidy room, tidy mind DESIGN Q&A Massimo Buster Minale

FOOD & TRAVEL 93

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GET ON YOUR HIGH HORSE Rosalyn Wikeley gets back in the saddle in Argentina’s Sierra Chicas THE HOTEL WIZARD Praising the virtues of the humble guesthouse THE WEEKENDER Cartagena LATIN BEATS City breaks with soul THE BUCKET LIST Hugh Bonneville GOOD HARE DAY Kentish fried rabbit is our new favourite fast food HAPPY HOUR Booze-free tipples

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ON THE COVER Joanne Froggatt wears top, jeans and belt by Alberta Ferretti and drives a Range Rover Velar SVAutobiography Dynamic. Fashion direction by Nicole Smallwood. Photography by Rachell Smith. Art direction by Fleur Harding.

Make up by Nathalie Eleni using Temple Spa, Code8 and Quantum Botanika. Hair by Davide Barbieri at Caren. Photographers assistants, Karoliona Burlikowska and Cameron Smith. Fashion assistant, Kerri Stolerman. Location with thanks to Heckfield Place

PROPERTY OF THE MONTH LET’S MOVE TO... Hungerford MY HOUSE Robert Kime FIVE OF THE BEST Sporting estates

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EDITOR’S LETTER CONTRIBUTORS HIGH SOCIETY STOCKISTS

REGULARS

PHOTO: FARLOWS

ON THE MOVE 107 108 110 111

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rom the hottest ever day on record (25 July) to the next day’s deluge (26 July), where I found myself entirely inappropriately dressed at this year’s Game Fair at Hatfield House, once more the biggest crisis facing our race made its extreme point. As with anything, it’s all a matter of balance, which is a roundabout way of coming to this issue’s theme: country sports. Knowing how these seemingly anachronistic pastimes – hunting, shooting and fishing – can help sustain communities, inspire a deep love of our land and preserve space for humans and their prey to live symbiotically, seems an important part of our own equilibrium. Realising where our food comes from is increasingly vital and field-to-fork eating is heralded in London’s flashiest restaurants. I know I’d much rather eat a freshly shot pheasant than a battery farmed chicken.

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WEAR So let’s celebrate these sports – Penelope Chilvers’ along with the pomp, ceremony, Oscar camo boots peculiar vernacular and behaviour. cross the country/ town divide nicely You don’t have to have a ruddy complexion, double-barrelled surname or black Lab to enjoy them, either.

Let these pages be your guide to country sports, with a Country & Town House spin: this means we’re paying homage to two new cool collabs: Stella for Hunter Boots and Alexa Chung for Barbour (page 70); Eleanor Doughty gives us the ultimate A-Z brief sheet of everything you need to know to survive the sporting season (p72); Adam Edwards writes a paean to the shooting lunch (p80) and Jeremy Taylor drives to the birthplace of Land Rover, the utility vehicle no self-discerning countryphile would be without (p76).

Our cover star, Joanne Froggatt, is a country girl. Born in Yorkshire, her success has inevitably brought her closer to the capital. I interviewed her at Heckfield Place to talk about the new Downton Abbey film (where they certainly enjoyed the sporting life) and the second series of Liar (out early next year). She hides a steel will to take on roles that are complicated and controversial; as she says, ‘Life @countryandtown is not black and /countryandtownhousemagazine /countryandtownhouse white’ (p60). n

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Where do you go to get your boots muddy? Lincolnshire, to relax and see my parents and walk our mad Dalmatian, Pen, who never gets properly tired. She isn’t very relaxing, but she is completely wonderful.

Country uniform?

Barbour, jeans and a crumbly old jumper, whatever the weather.

Best weekend in the country? Last summer I had a heavenly weekend in Derbyshire with a big group of friends, eating lots, drinking lots, walking the dogs, rowing around (and falling in) the lake, playing croquet and getting very sunburnt – by accident. The best of weekends. I’ll never forget it.

What’s cooking in the Aga? Lamb, about every other weekend at the moment. I’m always sent back to London from home with cool boxes full of lamb chops and joints, so we eat it a lot.

ADAM EDWARDS

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Where do you go to get your boots muddy? The local pub’s beer garden with, oddly enough, my mate Philip ‘Boot’ Christopherson (honest), whose thinking is pretty muddy.

Country uniform?

Dark jeans, desert boots and a tweed gilet.

Best weekend in the country? At home in my Cotswold village with a Sunday lunch party in the offing.

What’s cooking in the Aga? Usually a baked potato that I’ve put in the oven some days ago and forgotten to take out.

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FLEUR HARDING

Where do you go to get your boots muddy? I am lucky enough to live five minutes from the sea as well as the beautiful South Downs National Park. Walking there is great therapy.

Country uniform?

If it’s good weather, solid walking boots. But if the weather is bad, you’ll find me head to toe in Hunter. Wellies, welly socks, yellow raincoat, the lot.

Best weekend in the country? We’re regulars at the Crab & Lobster in Sidlesham, West Sussex. It’s great for exploring the coast, and the food and rooms are fantastic. I love a weekend in a bell tent, too.

What’s cooking in the Aga? I’m really into Moroccan cooking at the moment. I’m vegan, so lots of vegetable tagines, making the most of the courgettes and onions from our allotment.

CLEMENTINA JACKSON

Where do you go to get your boots muddy? A weekend at Le Manoir is about as much as I can take!

Country uniform?

Borrowed Hunters and a Barbour in a vain attempt to look like a seasoned pro, plus something wildly inappropriate that instantly gives me away.

Best weekend in the country? I was dropped off in Naseby to help with lambing in a surprise ‘character building’ exercise. I wasn’t much help, but will forever be grateful to my kidnapper/friend, George – the only person who could ever convince me to put my arm up a ewe’s backside.

What’s cooking in the Aga? Last time it took me three hours to make an English breakfast... So I’ll be at the nearest country pub.

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Boris will bring – but one thing personally hit a chord in his first speech; the pledge for ‘fantastic full fibre broadbrand sprouting in every household’! Since Mr Love and I decided to divide our time between the city and the sticks, dreadful broadband at the Magic Cottage has been top of my whinge list. It’s hair-tearingly frustrating when you work from home. But after harassing BT, the council, local MPs, suddenly last week, our little Oxfordshire village has superspeed broadband via Gigaclear. For 12 years I’ve grumbled but now that it’s here, I’m dragging my heels to sign up. I’ve got used to writing with a pen, reading a book. I certainly don’t bother ordering online and I’ve even stopped yelling at the TV when Netflix freezes.

A taste of the high life, lo-fi WiFi But I’m and keeping schtum. By Alice B-B lucky I have the option to nip to London. For those FINALLY TRIED CBD OIL. For whose livelihoods will the last year I’ve been bombarded be massively improved with promises of marijuana-based by top-speed broadband – cure-alls. But I still felt in the dark – this will be a gamechanger. how come the stuff I used to sneakily NO IBIZA FOR ME THIS smoke is now sold in Planet Organic?

SUMMER. Instead I found a A bottle of super-strength CBD was sent to me. Kismet, as I’d been sleeping beach; eight kilometers of wild badly. So when I woke at 3am, I guzzled deserted sand and dunes in the Mediterranean, reached only half a pipette’s worth. I slept until 7am by boat or via a small hotel that – no urge to giggle my head off, or eat the entire fridge. I hopped in the car to butts up to the coralline sand. A beach of such beauty that I stayed go boxing, parked on Ladbroke Grove outside Box Clever Sports. I realised I’d for days; mornings snorkelling in the crystal water, evenings forgotten my water bottle. Oh, and my sipping rosé as the sun set. I felt wallet. But I felt pretty... ‘whatevs’. conflicted; part of my job is to Hot and sweaty after my session, I walked to my car. unearth extraordinary places.

But in this age of Instagramming WTF – I’d left the engine the crap out of stuff, the world’s got running and all the doors so small and we’ve lost the art unlocked. For a whole hour. of keeping secrets. So in the spirit Well, that taught me everything of days gone by, when it was possible I need to know about super-strength to disappear to a magical mysterious CBD oil. I’ll be saving that little bottle place, I’m keeping this one to for recreational purposes. myself… I hope that if you find SO WE HAVE A ‘DUDE’ PRIME MINISTER. Who the hell knows what it, you’ll keep it a secret too. n

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A simple life is the best life, says actor Gabriella Wilde It’s always interesting to get an insight into the life and mind of such an accomplished woman.

Most valuable piece of advice you have ever received?

‘This too shall pass.’

What brings out the worst in you? When I feel a lack

of balance. I need to have a good balance of work and home life with time for myself and for my children.

Without that balance, I lose my rooting.

What was the last song you listened to that made you dance? Prodigal Son by Alan Power (my husband), in the

desert in Arizona when he had just released it.

What’s your favourite game to play? Backgammon.

It’s addictive when you get into it and it’s a calming way to spend an afternoon.

What are Saturday afternoons made for? I like to spend as much time outdoors as possible, so for me it’s family walks with our bulldog.

What would really improve your life? Always to simplify.

For me, a simple life is a happy one.

What’s your signature dish and who would you most like to cook it for? A roast

with all the trimmings for my family and friends at home.

Secret Canyon in Arizona.

It’s a truly magical place.

The formation of the rocks and the colours are breathtaking.

Where’s home? Somerset.

Where do you go to ‘lose’ yourself? I don’t

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know about totally losing myself, but to relax I do yoga and meditation.

What’s one of your daily rituals?

A long lavender bath.

Secret place in London for a good night out? I don’t live in London

anymore so I’m a bit out of touch – but I’d say my favourite place in Somerset is a restaurant called The High Pavement in Frome.

What never fails to bring a smile to your face? Watching my children

play together.

What item in your wardrobe do you wear the most? My black Jeanerica jeans.

They are a sustainable brand from Sweden.

Last book you read? Michelle

Obama’s autobiography Becoming.

FROM ABOVE: Gabriella Wilde wears Jaeger-LeCoultre Reverso One Duetto; yoga helps the actor to switch off; the Secret Canyon in Arizona; Gabriella with her husband Alan Power; Saturday afternoons mean walks with her bulldog

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Where was the last place you ‘discovered’? The

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STYLE BEAUTY JEWELLERY PA RT I E S

UP FRONT

FIELDS OF GOLD Oat couture The arrival of autumn heralds a new crop of designs inspired by the season’s abundant produce. Alexandra Hakim’s latest jewellery collection centres on the beauty of the humble oat and harks back to romantic imagery of the bucolic maiden of civilisations past.

Channel modern day agri-chic by sticking to natural tones and adorning your outfit with these dreamy Gold Oat earrings, £281. alexandrahakim.co

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UP FRONT Johnstons of Elgin Stole, £375

TROY London Cap, £235

Winser London Jumper, £199

Masscob Blouse, £230 at Liberty London

ALEXACHUNG A/W’19

Brora A/W’19

Mulberry Shoes, £349.99 at Zalando

Harris Wharf London Trousers, £260

DAKS Coat, £475

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Lark & Berry Earrings, £2,245 Ralph Lauren Watches Miniature stirrup watch, £1,730 Giuliva Heritage Collection x Le Monde Beryl Boots, £785

Country classics get an urban renewal As ever, classic country fabrics were all over the catwalk for A/W’19: tweeds, corduroy and tartan made modern with a pop of colour here and a contrast panel there to stylishly straddle the town/country divide. Pair with simple separates to nail that nonchalant British dress down style, and complete the look with a heritage accessory.

More timeless than trendy, these are pieces you’ll wear over and over, so make sure to invest in superior quality (and British-made for extra points). n

Palones Trousers, £145

Pantherella Socks, £11.50

Bally Janelle bag, £950

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HAUTE HERITAGE

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Bridging the gap between town and country, our pure new wool British Shetland tweeds come alive in a glorious variety of marled colours that can’t help but catch the eye. Our redesigned Cheltenham jacket sports a shorter cut in a beautiful rich cloth that comes in four expressive colours, seen here paired with the clean, crisp lines of our newly designed brushed pure cotton classic blouse (available in eight colours) and our exclusive Bramble & Forest stripe tweed skirt.

This new stripe Shetland tweed is also available in our iconic ladies hacking jacket in-store and online.

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UP FRONT MICRO TREND

CARAMEL COMPLEX BURBERRY Cape, £590

JOSEPH Skirt, £495

MODERN LEGACY

Fashion and photography have long been intertwined, so it follows that Penelope Chilvers enlisted photographer Will Waterworth to help recreate a high fashion homage to Cecil Beaton’s 1920s imagery of the infamous Bloomsbury Set. A group of young artists, designers, writers and musicians frolicked in the gardens of Eastcourt, Wiltshire wearing Chilvers’ AW19 styles. penelopechilvers.com

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STYLE NOTEBOOK Don’t miss the season’s hottest pop-up, says Clementina Jackson

GANNI Dress, £210 at Matches Fashion

WANDLER Bag, £560 at 24 Sèvres

BOTTEGA VENETA Mules, £540

TAKE THREE

KIDS’ COLLABS

BEST FOOT FORWARD

Work shoe woes, be gone! Contemporary British workwear brand The Fold has just launched its first shoe collection, featuring elegant designs, a signature curved heel and hidden padding for comfort. Perfect for the ‘eight-til-late’ modern professional woman who loves to lead the way. Launching in September, from £275. thefoldlondon.com

1 Moncler Enfant x Childrensalon.com Dress, £146 2 Mini Boden x Harry Potter Hedwig dungarees, £40 3 Hunter Original x Peppa Pig Backpack, £45

Whatever happens in October, Dior and the UK’s special relationship will endure – and Maria Grazia Chiuri has made a point of it by launching a month-long pop-up in Harrods featuring exclusive designs that celebrate British culture. The hero piece? A Union Jack Dior Book Tote.

Until 31 August. harrods.com

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RULE BRITANNIA!

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UP FRONT

Q & A

MY STYLE Go big or go home, says alice + olivia’s Stacey Bendet

Duchess of Sussex

is personal expression and it’s fun to be creative with it, but I do love a wide leg pant.

Finishing touches A touch of sparkly eye shadow, a killer bag and some fun earrings. I am a big vintage jewellery fan and am obsessed with Anabela Chan’s eco-friendly jewellery collection.

Summer holiday essentials Maxi dresses and skirts that don’t wrinkle, an oversized Gigi Burris hat and colourful accessories.

Style crush I admire people who dress for their own aesthetic and don’t succumb to every trend. Meghan Markle and Amal Clooney are timelessly elegant.

Under the radar labels Kush Queen CBD products are incredible. We have a collaboration coming up with them which I can’t wait to unveil.

Trend you’ll be embracing this month Tie dye.

Lounge lizard My casual look is usually a pair of cargo pants, Saint Laurent snakeskin boots and an alice + olivia oversized coat with big Gucci sunglasses.

Wardrobe failsafes My go-to event look is a T-shirt with a ball gown skirt. It’s glamorous without trying too hard.

What are you dressing up for? I recently made a gown from a beaded fabric created using Adam Pendleton’s art, and will definitely be taking it for a spin this autumn.

What do you find stressful about event dressing? I love for my outfit to coordinate

with the colour scheme of an event, matching the flowers and tables. The outfit should feel like it was created to be in the space.

Power dressing There’s something about a power suit and a high heel that always give me that extra sense of strength.

Favourite online retailers I’m loving the organic products on Kourtney Kardashian’s poosh site, I shop for vintage furniture on Chairish and Net-a-Porter for accessories.

Style cheats A platform shoe can turn you into a super model for the day. aliceandolivia.com n

1 alice + olivia T-shirt, £175. 2 alice + olivia trousers, £340. 3 Mateo earrings, $1,975 at Net-A-Porter. 4 Valentino shoulder bag, £1,400 at Net-A-Porter. 5 Kush Queen CBD bath bomb, $12.99. 6 alice + olivia blouse, £369 at Farfetch. 7 Saint Laurent python boots, £1,625 at MyTheresa. 8 Gucci sunglasses, £725. 9 alice + olivia skirt, £610. 10 Fred Leighton earrings, $18,000 at Net-A-Porter.

PHOTOS: REX FEATURES. SEE STOCKISTS FOR MORE DETAILS

Everyday uniform I like to change it up – dressing

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UP FRONT MOTHER NATURE

PICK ’N‘ MIX

Chaumet celebrates its horticultural heritage with a ‘garden of earthly delights’ featuring all things garden-related, from new honeycombmotif inspired Bee My Bee My Love cocktail ring Love pieces, insectin rose gold with citrine embellished cocktail palmera and diamonds, rings and a whimsical £POA, by Chaumet array of brooches to make Mr McGregor himself swoon. chaumet.com

It’s red, white and blue, but not as you know it. Astley Clarke’s super wearable, super attainable Linea collection is less Union Jack, more pick ’n‘ mix, with cranberry-red rhodolite, sky-blue London topaz and pearlescent white ‘rainbow’ moonstones bringing the colour to a demi-fine range of stackable rings, finelyjewelled chokers, easy layering bangles, and drop and hoop-style earrings to mix and match to your heart’s content. From £50. astleyclarke.com

WHEN IN ROME

Astley Clarke’s new Linea collection

J E W E L L E R Y

THE GOLD DIGGER

Contemporary Roman jeweller Delfina Delettrez Fendi has Two in One earrings created a limitedin gold, diamond, and edition collection pearl, around £1,009, to celebrate the

by Delfina Delettrez renovation of The St Regis Rome. It includes a beautifully simple necklace to wear open or elegant looped through each other. delfinadelettrez.com

Keep it playful, says Annabel Davidson

THREE OF THE BEST

PLUG IN, BABY

Olivia Palermo in Piaget

Gold, opal and diamond Sunlight pendant, £4,050,

by Piaget

Animals, flowers, geometry – jewellery collections are inspired by all manner of things, but telephone jacks? Proof that even the most unlikely sources can spark genius ideas, the Jack de Boucheron collection from the Parisian maison is an utterly versatile snakechain-and-clasp range of pieces that can be linked together in almost endless variations. Call me, baby. boucheron.fr

RAINBOW CHASERS

De Beers Knysna Chameleon cocktail ring. £POA, debeers.co.uk Messika M Rainbow hoops. £POA, messika.com

LAST OF THE SUMMER SUN

Piaget has always been synonymous with the Mediterranean – its 1970s-era collections are as evocative of St Tropez as a Slim Aarons photo. Today, sunlight still infuses its DNA: just take the new Sunlight collection for example, a playful, joyous take on the theme.

Any piece would look perfect with a white onepiece and dark glasses while on a yacht in the Med. Jackie O would approve. piaget.com

Jack de Boucheron bracelet with diamonds, £7,750

Pippa Small Turquoise Mountain Garma ring. £1,600, pippa small.com

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L U X U R Y

LIFE’S LIT TLE LU XURIES

LUCIA LOVES

Lucia van der Post wishes Barbour a very British birthday

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arbour is one of those brands that couldn’t be anything but British.

There are few who wouldn’t immediately associate it with being warm, safe and comfortable in the great outdoors.

Founded in 1894

by Scotsman John Barbour, who saw the need to devise FROM TOP: Barbour Icons bag (£135), hat (£36.95), scarf (£29.95) clothing, to whit and flat cap (£3295); the Beaufort oilskins, that would Archive Wax Jacket; the Ridley Scott Co Reed Wax Jacket (£449); from protect Britain’s left to right – Suzi Perry, Hannah outdoor workers Cooper, Helen Barbour, Laura from the rigours Wright and Edith Bowman of the weather, its versatility has evolved as society and its needs have changed.

To celebrate its 125th anniversary this year Barbour is launching the Icons Re-Engineered collection, which gives a contemporary spin to some of its most legendary pieces.

There are nine men’s jackets and six women’s jackets, as well as sundry scarves, gloves and bags, all of which are deeply embedded with Barbour’s distinctive design DNA.

Each Icons Re-Engineered piece celebrates a milestone in Barbour’s history, inspired by a legendary waxed jacket from the archive, ranging from the original Haydon, made in 1910, through to the motorbike-inspired Barbour International, all with the distinctive green, black and white Dress Gordon lining.

Most exciting, however, is the new Director’s Jacket, designed along with UK film director Sir Ridley Scott (who was born in South Shields where Barbour originated and still has its HQ) and his daughter. In classic black waxed cotton, it has bigger pockets than its peers (for those film scripts!) and a removable, fleece lining (around £449).

With its unmistakable heritage, rooted deep in that British love of the great outdoors, it’s no wonder Barbour has become a huge success around the world. barbour.com n

LADY OF THE CLOTH Having just returned from my firstever trip to West Africa (courtesy of TransAfrica), I’ve fallen in love with African textiles. Charlotte Gordon Cumming has started a new enterprise, Kente UK, inspired by Africa’s Kente cloth, offering a modern take on traditional designs and recolouring them to suit our greyer climes.

From £32 p/m. kente.uk.com

ONE AND ONLY Catching the mood of the moment (and the future) is Buy Me Once, a website dedicated to scouring the marketplace for products that are honest, long-lasting and produced through impeccable ethical practices. Sounds more worthy than fun? It shouldn’t, for there are lots of wonderfully appealing products. buymeonce.com

FINDING PATTERNS Anthropologie’s King’s Road store is celebrating London Design Festival by exhibiting and selling a range of textiles and mosaics by wonderfully colourful designer, Kaffe Fassett, renowned for his joyous palette. 5 September to 13 October. anthropologie.com

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COMPETITION

THE GREAT GLORIOUS TWELFTH GIVEAWAY Win over £1,200 worth of the finest country sporting essentials

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reat Glorious Twelfth is back – the most anticipated date on the shooting calendar, marking the start of endless luxury shooting weekends, impeccable hospitality and the best of country fashion.

Celebration is most definitely in order, and what better way to mark the occasion than with the return of our legendary Great Glorious Twelfth giveaway?

Featuring five of the finest country brands, one lucky reader will win all the essentials needed for their next stylish country sporting weekend away.

Country & Town House has teamed up with the prestigious Beretta Gallery, iconic footwear brand Dubarry, chic British clothing brand Guinea, the brilliant Oxton Liqueur Company and the original go-to gift provider Wingfield Digby, to put together a fabulous prize worth over £1,200.

Impress your hosts with the perfect outfit, the smartest shot glasses, the most delicious tipples and unique thank you gift – all integral to shooting etiquette, and sure to send fellow guns green with envy.

WIN, WIN, WIN Celebrate the first day of grouse shooting season in style with a prize worth over £1,200 from five of the finest country sporting brands.

WHAT TO WEAR: A pair of Dubarry Galway Boots (worth £329) and a Guinea Puffer Jacket (worth £235).

WHAT TO DRINK: The Oxton Liqueur Company Sloe Gin and Bramble Whisky (worth £100).

HOW TO DRINK IT: Beretta Gallery Leather Cased Set of Shot Glasses (worth £375).

HOW TO THANK YOUR HOST: Wingfield Digby Cock Pheasant Feather Photo Frames and Wine Coaster (worth £214).

TO ENTER Visit countryandtownhouse. co.uk/competition and follow instructions.

All products in the competition can be purchased online at beretta.com; dubarryboots.com; guinealondon.com; oxtonliqueurs.co.uk; wingfielddigby.co.uk

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MIND & M ATT ER

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BODY LANGUAGE

LIE DOWN At the Apogii Clinic on Westbourne Grove for an Esse express facial – the world’s first live probiotic treatment. £85. apogii clinic.co.uk

Olivia Falcon advises on avoiding a bloat trip

kale crackers that I tried not to inhale but chew mindfully to ward off hunger pangs.

Yes, I did feel a little dizzy and empty at points along the week – but all in all, if you follow the very comprehensive menu card that is included in the box, this diet is very doable. The food is carefully engineered to be low in carbs and proteins so the body does not recognise it as eating and remains in fasting mode.

This triggers a deep internal spring clean called autophagy which breaks down old, toxic cells that might degenerate and cause disease, while simultaneously promoting the growth of healthy new stem cells for regeneration.

Results vary but most people who stick to Prolon for five days a month shed around six kilos over the course of two to three months. I am about to embark on my second round, but can report that I lost nearly three kilos after the first go – that a month later, has stayed off. My appetite has been reset and rather than hankering after large bowlfuls of spaghetti vongole, what I am dreaming of now is slipping into a slinky Galvan dress.

Five-day Fast Mimicking Diet programme, £225. prolon.co.uk n

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WEAR Chanel Les 4 Ombres monochrome Modern Glamour compact for autumnal chic. £44. chanel.com

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LISTEN To The Guinea Pig podcast – on the dos and don’ts of cosmetic procedures

PHOTOS: GETTY IMAGES

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s someone who loves food and plans holidays around places I’d like to eat, September is usually a month of penance. I find diets incredibly boring but like most women I revert to them in times of desperation, and after a few weeks of holiday ‘to hell with it’ feasting in Croatia I was starting to resemble one of those large pink flamingo inflatables everyone likes to take selfies on.

I felt a little less panicky on the arrival of a large box from Prolon. This is a five-day Fast Mimicking Diet programme based on the work of Professor Valter Longo, an American biochemist and metabolic physician who, after 30 years of research, has designed an easy to follow weight loss plan that he claims not only cuts fat and cholesterol but also slows down ageing, increases longevity and boosts the immune system.

After completing an online questionnaire – there is also the option to do a blood test and weigh in with nutritionist Kim Pearson as people with a body mass index of less than 18.5 should not do this – I received a kit that contained nutty energy bars (very palatable for breakfast), an assortment of powdered soups for lunch and dinner (the tomato is good, the mushroom not so much), and a variety of snacks such as olives and 34 | COUNTRYANDTOWNHOUSE.CO.UK | September 2019

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Next, apply one or more of Dr Sebagh’s legendary superserums. The iconic Rose de Vie Serum, with soothing, antioxidant rosehip oil, leaves skin supple and radiant, whilst the highly concentrated Supreme Maintenance Youth Serum contains 95% active ingredients. All Dr Sebagh serums can be used alone or blended, to create a bespoke ritual.

Instantly illuminate and smooth the skin by applying the bestselling Deep Exfoliating Mask. Loved by beauty insiders, this potent formula gets skin glowing whilst increasing cell turnover. For an extra brightening boost, mix your mask with the multiple award-winning, highly concentrated antioxidant Pure Vitamin C Powder Cream.

Mix Pure Vitamin C Powder Cream with any serum or moisturiser for added radiance and to shield skin against the ageing effects of free radical-generating UV rays, environmental pollution and stress.

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UP FRONT

B E A U T Y

COVER GIRL

Nathalie Eleni shares how she got September cover star Joanne Froggatt camera ready

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ith all that fresh country air courtesy of our shoot location in Hampshire, Heckfield Place, we wanted to keep Joanne’s look as pared back as possible to let her natural beauty shine through. The main focus was her skin, so we sent our cover star to have one of the finest facials in town before employing our own on-set glow methods. Then, with a flutter of mascara, a dot of pearly highlighter and a hydrating dab of lip balm, the timeless English rose look was complete.

Downton Abbey airs on 13 September in UK cinemas, 20 September in the USA. The second series of Liar starts on ITV in early 2020

TEAM Make-up: Nathalie Eleni Hair: Davide Barbieri at Caren Stylist: Nicole Smallwood Photo: Rachell Smith @ Blood & Co

GET THE LOOK Joanne’s skin was prepped with Dr Marwa Ali’s Gala Glow Facial at Harrods Wellness Clinic ahead of the shoot, to add extra glow and radiance (harrods.com).

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As her skin was kept bare, to enhance Joanne’s natural glow, I began with a mini facial routine. I started with a deep, rejuvenating cleanse using Quantum Botanika Cleansing Balm, which awakens the skin, invigorating and boosting circulation for a healthy complexion (£65. nataliyarobinson.

co.uk). I also used a Gua Sha tool to help with lymphatic drainage.

Temple Spa A Stroke of Genius mascara (Both £20. templespa.com).

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I massaged Temple Spa Skin Truffle Total Facial Radiance into Joanne’s skin, which brought an immediate brightness and pearl-like glow to her complexion (£90. templespa.com).

For gentle, lightreflecting concealing, I applied Temple Spa Glint Shadow Concealer around the orbits of the eyes and on the T-zone, before blending with a small fluffy brush. I then applied a few coats of

I dabbed a little Vitamin E Illuminating Balm from MakeTheMake onto to the high points of Joanne’s face to add a glass-like sheen (£19. makethemake.com).

Finally, I applied Quantum Botanika Lip Gold 24 Karat Special Edition to hydrate Joanne’s lips (£86. nataliyarobinson.co.uk), before applying Code8 Glazé Lip Lacquer in Splash to complete the look (£28. codeeight.com).

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NEW RELEASES

HOT OFF THE PRESS

1 Clé de Peau Concealer is a real hero piece that has just landed at Harrods (along with the rest of the range) and will remove traces of tiredness under eyes while nurturing skin (£65. harrods.com).

2 Another miracle product from MZ Skin is the Skin Perfecting SPF 30 Tinted Moisturiser, which adjusts to any skin tone to give a sheer satin finish, while also protecting against UV damage (£95. mzskin.com).

3 Vit C Glow Tonic is a fast-acting liquid peel from Rodial, with skin brightening and clarifying Vitamin C and peptides, that leaves skin glowing beyond belief from first use (£40. rodial.co.uk).

B E A U T Y

POWDER ROOM

Weather the transitional season with these moisture boosters, says Nathalie Eleni

FACE TIME Dr Barbara Sturm has launched six new specialist facials at Corinthia London’s sumptuous spa. Think results over relaxation – her anti-ageing methods are legendary. From £195. corinthia.com

TREAT YOURSELF...

BYE BYE DRY SKIN

Oestrogen levels decline as we age, reducing collagen production. 1 VenEffect AntiAgeing Intensive Moisturizer contains phytoestrogens to safely stimulate cells to increase collagen production (£148. cultbeauty.co.uk). 2 Ebo Winter Essential Facial Oil gently hydrates sensitive skin (from £20. ebobeauty.com). 3 Sisley Sisleÿa L’Intégral Anti-Âge Firming body cream rehydrates and increases elasticity (£238. harveynichols.com).

La Prairie’s Supreme Balm Cleanser transforms from a rich balm into a luxuriant oil to remove all traces of make-up. £117. selfridges.com

THREE OF THE BEST

GO NUDE CHARLOTTE TILBURY Hot Lips 2 In Love With Olivia, a pinky-brown nude. £28. charlottetilbury.com

... to the best brows in town. Anastasia Beverly Hills’ hotly anticipated UK brow bar has now launched exclusively in Harrods. Email hairandbeautysalon @harrods.com or call 020 7893 8333

BARE MINERALS Gen Nude Radiant Lipstick in Tutu has a balmy-shine finish. £19. lookfantastic.com

AXIOLOGY Lip Crayon in Bliss, a flattering ballet pink. £26. gloworganicbrighton.co.uk

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SKIN CLINIC

DEEP CLEANSE

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UP FRONT W E L L N E S S

BODY & SOUL

GREAT ESCAPE

From farm to face. By Camilla Hewitt

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iodynamic’ means taking farming back to basics, using traditional methods such as lunar cycles and crop rotation. If we think of food as medicine, instead of buying into vitamin supplements, we should focus on what’s on our forks.

By building healthy microbiota in the soil, biodynamic farms are growing healthier plants. Eating food that’s grown in this way can make you feel better – after all, good gut health is essential for everything from hormonal balance to brain function. You might have also seen the term ‘biodynamic’ cropping up on the ingredients list of your beauty products. Farm to face is the latest concept sweeping the natural cosmetics industry: plants harvested from a biodynamically cultivated garden have reached their peak vitality, making them more powerful for your skin. Plus, this form of farming has less of an impact on climate change, and may even be a remedy for it. Good news for you and good news for the planet.

CUIXMALA M E XICO Healthier plants mean more powerful products

B I O DY N A M I C B E AUTIES 1 Chanel No.5 A 20-hectare biodynamic farm in southern France is the sole supplier of the May rose used to create Chanel's iconic scent. £113. chanel.com 2 Weleda Skin Food At Weleda’s gardens in Germany, biodynamic farming forms the backbone of its natural formulations. This all-natural multitasker also soothes sunburnt skin. £12.95. weleda.co.uk

Biodynamic farming is good for the bees

Created by Sir James Goldsmith, knighted for his services to ecology, the once private 30,000-acre ChamelaCuixmala Biosphere Reserve is now open to discerning travellers. Here the boundaries separating guests from nature are dissolved. Guests are encouraged to immerse themselves in the surroundings by embarking on horseback riding through the coconut plantations, skimming across the lagoons in a silent electric boat, or visiting the vast biodynamic farm which provides 90 per cent of everything served on the estate.

Cuixmala is extending its practice of mindfulness with the recently opened wellness and yoga facility, constructed of bamboo from the property and built with minimal obstruction to the environment.

Doubles from £525. cuixmala.com

3 Odylique Tea Tree & Herb Shampoo Formulated with herbs from a biodynamic farm in Suffolk, this is the first ever shampoo to receive Soil Association approval. From £12. odylique.co.uk 4 Lanson Champagne The maison uses biodynamic preparations, tisanes and algae sprays to bring out the best in the grapes.

From £34. lansonchampagne.com 5 Éminence Organics Skincare An entire collection is devoted to certified biodynamic ingredients, using potent ingredients full of vitamins and nutrients. From £73. theskinsmith.co.uk

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UP FRONT HIGH FIVE

Swedish sneaker brand CQP is celebrating its fifth birthday with the launch of 25 pairs of limited-edition Jubilee sneakers, based on its bestselling Racquet Sr sneaker but in a distressed, denim-blue suede. £270. c-qp.com

FADE TO GREY

Tudor’s prizewinning divers watch, the Black Bay Bronze symbolises the brand’s naval heritage with its strap detailing and bronze ornamentation, and it's now available as a new slate grey model complete with shaded dial. £2,910. tudorwatch.com

M E N ’ S

S T Y L E

WELL GROOMED

Matt Thomas wishes a happy birthday to a brill British brand

MADE TO LAST Edward Green’s classic shoes are cut by hand from the finest leathers, with tradition and elegance taking precedence over the whims of trend. It has just introduced the Piccadilly penny loafer and Dover split-toe derby in a naturally textured, handsome London grain leather. From £965. edwardgreen.com

TURN COATS

STYLISH SOUNDS Saint Laurent has curated two limitededition speakers for Bang & Olufsen – an all-black mirrored Beoplay A9 multiroom speaker and a portable Beoplay A1 in black gloss. From £300. saintlaurentrivedroite.com

As the climate remains uncertain, why not invest in fashion versatility with a double-face coat? This handmade double-breasted trench from Mackintosh can be worn in either plain brown or cheeky checked, to match your mood. £2,100. mackintosh.com

BOOKS OF NOTE Ettinger is celebrating its 85th birthday with a limited edition of 85 numbered notebooks, with illustrations by British artist Rory Dobner and hand-bound by Royal Warrant holders Barnard & Westwood. £265. ettinger.co.uk 40 | COUNTRYANDTOWNHOUSE.CO.UK | September 2019

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UP FRONT S O C I A L

S C E N E

HIGH SOCIETY People, parties, places

Poppy Jamie, Suki Waterhouse and Zara Larsson

Lily Allen

Martha Ward and Hayley Bloomingdale

Candice Lake

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Rebel Wilson and Janelle Monáe

Jemima Jones

Princesses Olympia and Marie-Chantal of Greece

Daisy Lowe Leomie Anderson

FANCY PANTS Vanessa Barneby

Kim Hersov

Look no further for English garden party inspo than LoveShackFancy’s intimate midsummer lunch in Amanda Brooks’ idyllic Oxfordshire garden, complete with ultracovetable floaty dresses, chilled rosé and a seasonal menu that knocked the socks off fashion and Greek royalty alike.

Lady Emma Weymouth

Marvin and Rochelle Humes Laura Jayne and Matt Smith

Sam Claflin Caitriona Balfe and Tony McGill Katherine and Andrew Jenkins

Mark Strong

FESTIVAL FINEST

Black tie, chauffeur-driven Audis, a floating stage and some of the biggest names in music: Henley certainly isn’t the average festival, and its stellar guest list followed suit. Mini Moëts fuelled the festivities as stars including Matt Smith and Caitriona Balfe danced the night away to Tom Odell.

Jodie Whittaker

Martin Compston and Tianna Chanel Flynn

MATCH POINT

After a hydration and table tennis pit stop in the Evian Live Young Suite at Wimbledon, VIPs were spotted all over Centre Court touting the accessory of the season: Evian’s new 100 per cent recycled plastic bottle.

Some were more interested in the brand’s sustainability efforts – and all the free Pimm’s – than by the tennis itself... We’ll name no names.

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PARTNERSHIP

CHELSEA MAKES HISTORY

Step back in time at the inaugural Chelsea History Festival, 9–13 October

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he Suffragettes; the Great Fire; the Blitz; for a city boasting as storied a past as London, the lack of historyfocused events in the capital’s calendar is glaring – but this year’s inaugural Chelsea History Festival is stepping in to fill the gap. Over five consecutive days, from 9–13 October, the festival will see a series of talks, performances and immersive activities breathe fresh life into the past.

More than 35 engaging events make up a dynamic and experiential programme aimed at reintroducing visitors to the intrigue of history. Opening the festival will be celebrated Arnhem veteran Victor Gregg in conversation with bestselling historian Rick Stroud, followed by a lecture on the famous ‘Battle for the Bridges’ by

Antony Beevor. That being said, whether you’re an avid watcher of the History Channel, or your interest in the subject came to an abrupt end after your GCSE exams, the festival’s diverse line-up will appeal to all.

Music lovers will delight at Thursday evening’s performance of Classic FM favourite, The Lark Ascending. Written against a backdrop of The First World War, the English rhapsody will be made all the more moving sung by one of the world’s leading lyric baritones in the Wren Chapel at dusk. Other headlines include a tell-all talk by New York Times bestseller and formidable investigative journalist Sonia Purnell; war-time surgeon David Nott OBE speaking candidly on his experiences in Aleppo; and history walks around Chelsea.

CHELSEA Hosted in an appropriately historic setting, HISTORY the festival will sprawl across three sites along FESTIVAL Royal Hospital Road, the National Army 9–13 October Museum, Chelsea Physic Garden, Royal Hospital chelseahistory Chelsea – home to living history, the Chelsea festival.com Pensioners. Already, its inaugural chapter boasts an unparalleled programme of talks and activities hosted in fascinating venues, putting the Chelsea History Festival in good stead to become a mainstay on the London social calendar – and one you’ll come away from with a wealth of knowledge. chelseahistoryfestival.com n

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ART CU LT U R E BOOKS PEOPLE

THE GUIDE

STELLAR SHOTS

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The launch of Tim Walker’s longawaited follow-up to his monograph, Story Teller, will coincide with a new, just as eccentric, exhibition at the V&A, Tim Walker: Wonderful Things.

Taking the lead from his new book, Shoot for the Moon, which lands on 5 September, it will showcase ten new series of photographs and the fantastical, florid creative process behind their realisation.

From 21 September. vam.ac.uk

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THE GUIDE

WELLNESS

HEALTHY HEDONISM

VERVE is this year’s freshest wellness festival, offering individuals, couples and families the bounty of the glorious south Wiltshire countryside alongside a packed wellness programme. Expect yoga, pilates, meditation, breath work, sound baths and woodland exercise classes, as well as a ‘wild’ spa, boutique shopping and luxury glamping.

7–8 September. feeltheverve.com

DON’T MISS HORTICULTURE

A Glimpse of Glyndebourne

COUNTRY LIFE Find stillness by a lake.

By Jenny Rowe

Wellness in Wiltshire

BOATING

A SEA DOG’S PARADISE

The Southampton Boat Show is Britain’s biggest, not least because it is set in Europe’s largest purpose-built marina, hosting thousands of guests and businesses over ten days.

Take a high-speed RIB for a whiz, sail on the Solent, or breathe underwater in an Andark tank. 13–22 September. southamptonboatshow.com

Britain’s biggest boat show

Hive City Legacy

SATIRE

FEMMES THEATRE

Hive City Legacy is a powerful part of HOME Manchester’s new season of shows; a riotous satire redefining the narratives of women of colour by confronting the intersecting issues of race, sexuality and mental health with the brash, modern and attentiongrabbing arts of beat boxing and body popping.

3–7 September. homemcr.org

For those who love gardens but hate opera – should they exist – don’t miss this chance to visit the extensive gardens at Glyndeborne without the musical accompaniment. Pack a picnic and enjoy a stroll around the lake, taking in the outdoor sculpture trail that includes works from artists such as Henry Moore, Nicholas Hare and Nic Fiddian-Green.

Fans will find members of the garden team on hand all day to answer any prying (and pruning) questions. 31 August. glyndebourne.com ART

Pared-Back Paintings Sarah Spackman’s new exhibition, From Where I Stand, comes to the Sarah Wiseman Gallery in Oxford, focusing on painterly logic and order with her characteristic simplicity. The painter’s inner and outer world comes to light in this collection of carefully studied still life works.

‘The subjects of my paintings are mainly organic, things grown on the allotment or in the garden, or simply things I find beautiful,’ Sarah explains.

7–28 September. wisegal.com

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QUEEN CRADOCK

A highlight of the Mayor’s first ever London Borough of Culture in Waltham Forest, LGBTQI+ cabaret group Duckie bring a night of unadulterated joy to Walthamstow’s Assembly Hall. Bag tickets for Duckie Loves Fanny and watch 25 identical Fanny Cradock dragsters of all genders take centre stage in a spectacular production that celebrates one of Waltham Forest Council’s most distinctive cultural icons. 6 September. wfculture19.co.uk

DON’T MISS EXHIBITION

What Does Money Buy?

E V E N T S

TOWN LIFE

Fanny Cradock returns to Walthamstow

Grayson Perry sparks existential crises in the capital

Yves Gastou at PAD

DESIGN

PIMP YOUR PAD

Contemporary design, decorative arts, modern art, antiquities, tribal art and jewellery; PAD takes its fresh perspective on design to four European cities every year.

Hitting London at the end of the month, expect seamlessly eclectic interiors.

30 September to 6 October. pad-fairs.com

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PHOTOGRAPHY

NEW HORIZONS

Fourth generation farmer turned photographer, David White’s intensely observant eye is cast from his beloved homeland, the Marlborough Downs, further afield to Nepal, Japan and the Arctic in his solo show at Osborne Studio Gallery. From 18 September. osg.uk.com

His first exhibition at Victoria Miro Mayfair, Grayson Perry presents a cornucopia of new work including pots, sculpture, large-scale prints, a tapestry and a carpet.

Touching a nerve for many of us, Grayson Perry: Super Rich Interior Decoration questions modern consumer culture and considers if we can purchase an identity, or if it can or should only be built through authentic experience.

From 25 September. victoria-miro.com ART

Windows To The Soul An exhibition curated

by Soweto Kinch, a young musician making waves on the British jazz and hip-hop scenes, is guaranteed to be different. Another Me at Southbank Centre will challenge your perception of prisoners. Music is at the forefront, and the enigmas of the human psyche are hidden beneath the surface of this unique collection of song, poetry, paintings, drawings and sculpture. From 19 September. koestlerarts.org.uk

Zebra in Zambia by David White

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S T U D I O

NORMAN ACKROYD As the artist’s show comes to Eames Fine Art Gallery, Caiti Grove visits him at his Bermondsey studio

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hen Storm Doris blew in at 90mph in February 2017, it was officially categorised a ‘weather bomb’. Norman Ackroyd knew all about it, being on an island near John O’Groats, more or less the last stop before the North Pole. He remembers it well: ‘The next day the sea was still bubbling like AlkaSeltzer,’ he says. Going in search of a boat, he found them all tied up in the harbour. In this scene of grim greyness, the sun suddenly shone through the clouds, lighting up the island’s medieval church and surrounding heather. It’s visions like this that makes Norman – a very youthful 81-year-old, with a mop of sandy brown hair – want to sail out to islands abandoned in the ’30s and peninsulas in the west of Ireland. ‘I was a feckless 19-year-old,’ he explains, ‘and hung around just long enough to feel my head swimming at the fact that everything in etching has to be done in mirror image.’

Outdoors, he sometimes paints straight onto copper with a sugar solution, makes sketches, or takes along materials for a speedy watercolour painting. Back in the studio, he performs a form of etching called aquatint. Acids eat into copperplates around resin and wax and

the result is printed onto paper, pressed through a hand-conducted letterpress that stands in the middle of his studio. This process demands a decisive artist – the acid process cannot be reversed – and he often goes through three stages of layering to achieve his delicate scenes of brewing storms or sunshine glowing through a thundercloud.

Luckily, rain is a leading character in his work. Trips are planned from his studio in Bermondsey, studding a wall map of the UK with destinations already visited: the coasts of Ireland and Scotland are completely covered with blue and green pins. Is England less interesting artistically, I ask? ‘Oh no,’ he assures me, ‘I’ve got all the yellow pins for Wales and red for England, I just haven’t got round to them yet.’

His work is often presented alongside poetry by writers interested in landscape, a style of creativity he can relate to. ‘Etching is a bit like poetry because you’re working within the limitations of the plate size. It’s almost like a sonnet – you plan to write it in 14 lines not 60. But limitations are a freedom.’

Reading the Landscape: Blacksod Revisited, at Eames Fine Art Gallery, Bermondsey, London SE1. 5–29 September. eamesfineart.com

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Norman Ackroyd in his Bermondsey studio

THE GUIDE Sandbanks on the Loire (1923)

PREVIEW

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FÉLIX VALLOTTON: PAINTER OF DISQUIET

The Lie (1897)

Royal Academy of Arts Swiss painter and printmaker Félix Vallotton arrived in Paris as a star-struck 16-year-old.

Eventually he joined a group of creatives, les Nabis, alongside Pierre Bonnard and Edouard Vuilllard, swelling the energy of the French capital’s famed finde-siècle artistic innovation. Critics trace his legacy back to Ingres and even Holbein, yet also see future shadows of Edward Hopper in his woodcuts and the sinister overtones of Hitchcock in his work. Yes, his entire oeuvre is suffused with subtle, nuanced disquiet, and it shares the 20th century’s lack of self-confidence, but this is a mighty exhibition. Until 29 September. royalacademy.org.uk

FIVE OF THE BEST

ANIMALS IN ART

PANGOLIN LONDON SCULPTURE TRAIL This cultural safari near King’s Cross takes in Large Gorilla by Michael Cooper and Boar II by Terence Coventry (above). 26 Sept to 31 July 2020. pangolinlondon.com

BARRY FLANAGAN Best known for his bronze hares, this Birmingham show celebrates the sculptor’s power with different materials.

18 Sept to 24 Nov. ikon-gallery.org

Yoko Ono, Skyladders (1968/2019)

ANIMALIA From Picasso to Dufy, Dalí and Freud, this London curation proves that animals have an irresistible allure for artists.

Until 20 Sept. omertiroche.com

JAKE AND DINOS CHAPMAN With an eight-metre tall T. rex, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly at CASS, Goodwood, is irresistible to everyone under ten. Until 31 Oct. sculpture.org.uk REVIEW

YOKO ONO SKY PIECES

The Heong Gallery, Cambridge Once persecuted as the enigmatic outsider who allegedly broke up The Beatles, Yoko now celebrates a year-long series of her conceptual works – both visual and audio – at various Cambridge University locations. She has close links there: a plaque marks the hall where she and Lennon staged a unique concert in 1969.

At Heong, Sky Pieces centres on Yoko’s enduring fascination with nature. Outside on the lush lawns stand the pale, stark forms of stepladders. The cacophonous call of rooks adds a sinister soundscape. This delightful new gallery at Downing College is the perfect setting for her still-remarkable art, the fruit of an exceptional, but often tragic, lifetime in the public eye. Until 6 Oct. heonggallery.com

THE DOG: A CELEBRATION AT CHATSWORTH Sniff out the trail of man’s best friend, from Stubbs and Constable to Ben Long, above. Until 6 Oct. chatsworth.org

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THE GUIDE B O O K S

GOOD READS

Richard Hopton reviews four firm holiday favourites WHAT HAPPENS NOW? SOPHIA MONEY-COUTTS

‘Slowly, slowly like a Harrods’ lift at Christmas, Lysander progressed downwards …’ Thus Jilly Cooper described the bounder-hero of her 1993 bonkbuster The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous, seducing one of his many conquests. The phrase neatly epitomises the winning combination of humour, sex and class which made Mrs Cooper’s novels so popular. Sophia Money-Coutts’ new novel, the follow-up to her debut The Plus One, manages triumphantly to transpose the formula to 2019 London. Here, the world of social media and online dating rubs shoulders with the age-old pitfalls of unplanned pregnancy, deceitful men and snobbery. What Happens Now? is as light as a Fulham yummy mummy’s egg-white omelette – but infinitely more appetising.

Lil Bailey, the heroine, teaches in an expensive primary school, St Lancelot’s, in Chelsea. Her class consists of four English boys called George, Arthur, Cosmo and Phineas, the son of a Russian steel magnate, a Greek prince, an American, an Indian

A SINGLE SOURCE Peter Hanington The author’s second novel is a thriller set against the background of the Arab Spring.

The protagonist is William Carver, a harddrinking, cynical BBC foreign correspondent, an enjoyable character – if perhaps a little stereotyped – who, in the course of reporting the popular uprisings in Cairo in 2011, uncovers skulduggery in the arms trade and government. The descriptions of the civil unrest in Cairo are convincingly atmospheric. The novel has much to say about people trafficking and the brutal treatment of migrants, as well as Western governments’ ambiguous relationships with the arms trade.

Two Roads, £14.99

THE DRAGON LADY Louisa Treger The lives of Stephen and Virginia Courtauld are well documented, their taste and wealth forever commemorated in the astonishing Art Deco interiors they installed at Eltham Palace.

Louisa Treger’s second novel charts their life in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) during the 1950s. The Courtaulds’ life of pampered opulence and their liberal opinions set them apart from their colonial neighbours. This promising story of prejudice and racial conflict at the end of the Empire is, unfortunately, spoiled by the author’s all-too-ready resort to breathy, emotional flourishes and a smattering of historical solecisms. Bloomsbury, £16.99

and the son of a Premiership footballer.

This affords Money-Coutts ample opportunity to make fun of the habits and aspirations of London’s super-rich, something she does with great brio. The children are collected after school by bodyguards and nannies more often than by their expensively Lycra-clad mothers. At Christmas, Lil is given a pot of caviar costing £843 from Fortnum’s.

One mother complains that her precious son has been given apple crumble for pudding at lunch: ‘It’s just way too much refined sugar,’ she says.

The novel tells the story of Lil’s affair with Max, a handsome, wealthy, aristocratic mountaineer. She unintentionally becomes pregnant when they have sex on their first date, but the path to true love is far from smooth. There is, however, much fun to be had along the way. Money-Coutts, as befits a former Tatler Features Editor, is well versed in the eccentricities of the British upper classes and writes convincingly about them. She writes with humour and gynecological gusto about masturbation and childbirth, too. A perfect holiday read, with a pastis by the pool.

HQ, £12.99

HUDSON’S KILL Paddy Hirsch This novel revisits early19th century New York, also the setting for Paddy Hirsch’s first novel, The Devil’s Half-Mile.

It is a rapidlyexpanding city where abject squalor co-exists with great wealth, where seething slums are but a few streets from the stone townhouses of the shipowners and Wall Street brokers. Hirsch brings this world of violence, crime and racial hatred vividly to life. Justy Flanagan, lawyer, amateur pathologist, detective and city marshal, the hero of Hirsch’s first novel, is confronted with a gruesome murder, which he must solve before the city’s tensions explode into violence. Corvus, £14.99 n

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THE GUIDE Baroness Sue Campbell of Loughborough

S P O R T S

THE OLYMPIAN

Despite a combative first encounter, Sebastian Coe finds a lot to admire about Sue Campbell

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he world of sports administration has not always been fertile territory for women. Although most competitions now have gender equity on the field of play, it is unfortunately still lopsided in the governance structures of domestic and global sport. If any woman entering this world needed a role model that has inspired far more than a crack in the glass ceiling, it is Baroness Sue Campbell of Loughborough.

It was on the old cinder running track at Loughborough University, where Campbell was a lecturer in the department of physical education and sports science, that I first met this formidable woman. She was coaching on the in-field and I had snuck onto the track to train, without permission and in the middle of her lecture. While I rested between my ‘repetitions’, she coolly asked what I thought

I was doing. Had I known that our own personal odysseys in sport would have become so inextricably intertwined, I probably would not have responded with: ‘What do you think I am doing?’. Her coolness was replaced by a withering look. ‘Don’t be cheeky,’ she warned.

We have often laughed about our first exchange. By the time she had arrived at Loughborough University, she had already done a stint as a PE teacher in Manchester.

Her passion for school sport has shaped much of what has driven her own career.

Her stewardship of the National Coaching Foundation as its chief exec helped give much-needed professional status to the role of coaching in British sport.

But it was her spell as chairman of UK Sport that heralded an unprecedented surge in the performance of our Olympic and Paralympic

sports. London 2012, for all its successful delivery, would never have been viewed in the way it is now had we not had the great home town performances that we luxuriated in. She maintained this role alongside the chairmanship of the Youth Sports Trust, which created unprecedented opportunities for young people, particularly in areas hardpressed to offer competitive sport in schools.

In 2016, she was appointed Head of Women’s Football at the FA, becoming its director in 2018. Already her focus has helped to solidify the women’s team on the world stage, as the recent World Cup demonstrated.

Our Campbell sits in the House of Lords as a cross-bencher where she continues to fight the cause. It is hard to argue that any woman in British sport has had a bigger influence on its fortunes than Sue Campbell. n

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It’s not speedy or sexy, but Mitsubishi’s Outlander does have the feel-good factor

C A R S

ROAD TEST

VITA L STATS MITSUBISHI Outlander PHEV 4h 2.4 Petrol Auto PRICE £39,500 ENGINE 2,360cc petrol/2 electric motors POWER 175bhp 0-62MPH 10.5 seconds ECONOMY 139 mpg (official) 35mpg (real world)

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Style-wise it’s on a par with Boris Johnson, yet the Outlander is by far the best-selling plug-in car in Europe. Mitsubishi’s low emissions SUV was launched five years ago and for a long time has enjoyed few rivals. In fact, the newer Kia Niro is still the only serious off-road contender in the budget hybrid market. But all that could be about to change as a steady flow of familyfriendly models appears over the next 12 months.

Outlander combines a petrol engine with two electric motors – one powering the back wheels, the other the front. The 2019 models feature a larger, 2.4-litre petrol engine, slightly improving power and economy. However, even around town – where the Outlander is best employed – don’t expect to get anywhere near the official consumption figures of over 130mpg. That only works if you have a short commute and use a feather-light right foot in electric mode.

What is brilliant is that, being a plug-in hybrid, it makes you feel good about helping the environment. Buyers can also expect massive tax breaks. What could be better than beating the Congestion Charge and new ULEZ fee in London?

RATING: 3/5 HANDBAGS

The facelifted Outlander is considerably cheaper than any comparable model from Germany, or even those from award-winning Volvo. But despite the LED headlights and other minor tweaks, Mitsubishi’s flagship model feels strangely dated.

Perhaps it’s because the interior plastics and trim are less than inspiring. Worst of all, there is no sat nav system. The rest of the dashboard design is old hat too, but it does boast a decent-sized boot.

There are assorted drive modes to choose from but across country, the Outlander lacks any punch.

A ‘Sport’ setting does little to up the pulse rate, while ‘Eco’ sucks the last drop of pleasure from the driving experience. At least it performs well enough off-road, while on the motorway, noise levels are low. At best, the Outlander is an easy, relaxed drive that will tick a lot of boxes for family buyers who simply need to get from A to B without the frills.

Mitsubishi claims that for an average commute of 20 miles each way a day, the Outlander could save the owner £5,000 a year. A pretty persuasive argument in itself. However, if you really don’t need an SUV on the driveway, then environmentally-friendly vehicles like the VW Passat GTE, Nissan Leaf or the BMW 330e are more worthy hybrid alternatives.

RATING: 3/5 WELLIES

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The Mitsubishi Outlander is Britain’s best-selling plug-in hybrid – for now at least, says Jeremy Taylor

THE GUIDE

Dacia’s Duster is family friendly and sub £10,000

THE DRIVE

VITA L STATS DACIA Duster Prestige Blue dCi 115 4x4 PRICE £18,695

The bar in the Golden Lion at Port Isaac remains hushed as a local explains the spirits of the Cornish tin mines. ‘Knockers’ were the fairy miners, who warned workers of coming disasters and helped them find rich seams to dig.

It’s a storyline that has yet to feature in Poldark – or Doc Martin, also filmed here – but I’m prepared to keep an open mind.

After all, Cornwall is soaked in folklore and tradition. While Tolkien is said to have found inspiration for The Hobbit from hedgerow fairies Port Isaac

ENGINE 1,461cc 4-cyl diesel POWER 115hp 0-62MPH 12.1 seconds

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ECONOMY 48.7 mpg

SM A RT T ECH FOR THE SAFETY CONSCIOUS BULLET PROOF SUVs and four-wheel drives are among the most stolen cars in the UK. Smartwares IP Bullet CCTV camera is an ingenious piece of kit that connects to a mobile phone via wi-fi and a subscription-free app. It will monitor your driveway 24/7, using night vision technology to deter car thieves. £99.99. halfords.com

at his aunt’s house in Worcestershire, and Yeats met a fairy queen in Ireland, Cornwall is a gossamer-winged hotspot.

The latest Dacia Duster is the automotive equivalent of a fairy tale. A family-friendly crossover vehicle that starts at less than £10,000? You’d have to be away with the fairies to believe that.

Romania-based Dacia, sister company to Renault, makes cars so ridiculously cheap you wonder how some other manufacturers charge what they do for their vehicles. The Duster may not have the glam of an Audi or BMW but then it only costs a fraction of the cost and is well suited to Cornish lanes.

I’ve had this urge to drive a Dacia for over a year now. I like the fact that people who don’t care about the badge on the bonnet are saving a small fortune driving a car that does exactly what it says on the tin.

My Prestige 4x4 model is admittedly top of the range – but it’s still under £19,000 – and features sat nav, air conditioning, multiview reversing camera, keyless entry and feels a lot sturdier than many rival models costing considerably more.

There are no soft-touch materials or fancy ‘mood’ lighting to illuminate the cabin, some of the controls feel very old school and it can be noisy at high speed on the M5 dash to the coast. Yet the Duster has a classless charm which reminds me of the Citroën 2CV and the original Beetle.

Choose from petrol or diesel engines, while the four-wheel drive models can tow a tonne and a half of horsebox or caravan. It’s also remarkably agile off-road and will embarrass more expensive rivals fitted with a plethora of traction gizmos.

Unrefined, sluggish and bit dated inside, the Duster wins on good old-fashioned value for money. The best models are the cheapest ones – choose a funky colour like Desert Orange or Mink, et voilà!

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ZIP UP Warm days, colder nights. The Odin jacket is perfect for an off-roading expedition, snuggled up by the campfire to watch a sunset.

Lightweight, stretchy and providing ample warmth, it is made by Helly Hansen, which has been making professional gear that looks great since 1877. The water-repellent textile treatment is also free of harmful PFCs that damage the environment. £180. hellyhansen.com

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FROM SMALL ACORNS

Teresa Levonian Cole pays a visit to Highgrove, the gardens of HRH the Prince of Wales, 25 years after they were first opened to the public bringing items back from his travels, such as these wooden doors from India,’ says Goodenough. ‘It used to be called the Indian Gate, but was renamed the Shand Gate, in honour of the Duchess’ late brother.’ Next to it stand an elephant and her calf in box topiary – a gift from the Duchess of Cornwall.

I am struck by the cosiness and lack of pomp – the puckish humour, even. This is no Versailles (ironically, the kitchen garden, with its serried ranks of perfect vegetables in plots bordered by marigolds and crab apple trees, struck me as the most formal area). Rather, tended by a team of 11 gardeners, this is the horticultural equivalent of a high-maintenance woman who spends hours in front of the mirror to achieve that casual, just-out-of-bed look.

There is a theatrical sense of anticipation as you progress through a succession of secret gardens, as though through an enfilade of rooms, each one surrounded by walls of warm Cotswold stone or sculpted hedges. The aforementioned gates, each one unique, give access to a different world, that begins for visitors with the orchard. Here, along with heritage varieties of apple and pear, is a Glastonbury thorn, a gift from the Abbot of Glastonbury and a descendant of the original tree allegedly brought by Joseph of Arimathea.

Grazing peacefully are sheep and deer made of woven

FROM ABOVE: Highgrove has been open to the public for 25 years, championing the principals of organic gardening; the Azalea walk; the Carpet garden centres on a dramatic mosaicked fountain

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ebs Goodenough breaks off in mid-sentence and drops to the ground. She has spotted something I cannot even see. ‘It’s a twayblade!’ she exclaims of the tiny greenish-yellow wild orchid. ‘I must show it to His Royal Highness – he will be delighted.’

It is 25 years since the organic gardens of the Prince of Wales at Highgrove opened to the public, raising over £7m for his charity, the Prince’s Trust. I am one of the 37,000 visitors who come each year, being given a guided tour around the 15-acre property by Goodenough, the charming head gardener, who has a soft Canadian lilt and an encyclopaedic knowledge of plants that is matched only by her enthusiasm for her job and deference to her employer. ‘What I always stress to visitors is that when the Duchy of Cornwall purchased this house [in 1980], there was virtually no garden. It was a blank canvas.’

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THE GUIDE willow by sculptor Emma Stothard, a beneficiary of the Prince’s Trust, who also presented him with a likeness of his beloved Jack Russell, Tigga.

We continue into the Cottage Garden, for which the Prince, as a novice gardener, sought the advice of Rosemary Verey. The hebe she planted is flowering, and all around is a riot of pink and blue, with martial delphiniums towering proudly to nine foot ten inches. A heady scent issues from plump, blush-tinged ‘Jude the Obscure’ roses – a leitmotif in the gardens – and also from a bed of carnations. Or, as I learn to call them, pinks. Even if they are yellow. These, however, are indeed pink – dianthus ‘Devon Wizard’ to be precise, and the Prince’s favourite, worn in his buttonhole.

I learn also that, in this predominantly alkaline environment, growing rhododendrons – which form the basis of the new Buttress Garden – is no mean feat. Acid soil has to be created for them, by composting the right components.

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THIS IS THE HORTICULTURAL EQUIVALENT OF A HIGHMAINTENANCE WOMAN WHO SPENDS HOURS IN FRONT OF THE MIRROR TO ACHIEVE THAT CASUAL, JUST-OUT-OF-BED LOOK

This is down to the wizardry of Goodenough: ‘His Royal Highness is the design element,’ she says. ‘My job is to get the horticulture right and do it in a sustainable, organic way.’ This applies equally to the kitchen garden, where ‘good horticultural practice helps keep pests away’. Apparently roses and garlic spray make good bedfellows.

The first thing the Prince sees on returning home, however, is the meadow of some 130 species of wildflower (including the wonderfully named ‘Farmer’s Nightmare’ seed mix). Conceived with the help of Dame Miriam Rothschild, an early proponent of organic gardening, it’s alive with birdsong and butterflies. ‘When I moved here, in 1980, I already felt passionately about the destruction that had been, and was still being, wreaked on our countryside since the 1960s,’ explains the Prince in his video introduction to the gardens. ‘Hedgerows were being ripped out, ancient woodlands lost, wildflower-rich meadows devastated and the excessive use of chemicals on both land and gardens was commonplace. At last, at Highgrove, I had an opportunity to work with Nature, rather than against her.’

Organic, sustainable, recyclable – everything is done in harmony with the soil and with the seasons, the principles environmentally friendly, down to water harvesting and special slow-release water bags, like whoopee cushions, to conserve water. Heritage varieties are propagated.

Traditional skills, such as thatching and drystone walling, are championed. Even tree stumps, surrounded by ferns and hostas, reappear upturned to artistic effect in the famous Stumpery – a mysterious haunt where you might imagine dryads emerging at night. It put me in mind of The Castle of Otranto. This is where Hollyrood House – a thatched treehouse (with holly-shaped door), built for the seven-year-old Prince William – is to be found, along with the Wall of Gifts, where

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FROM ABOVE: The Kitchen garden is more ornamental than most; the Thyme walk smells delicious

presents from students of stonemasonry find their resting place, in a kind of neo-gothic tribute. Gifts, in fact, are in evidence throughout the gardens – from the Indian bean tree in the Cottage Garden, given by Elton John, to the sundial offered by the Duke of Beaufort in the Sundial Garden – the latter originally designed by Lady Salisbury and surrounded by scalloped yew hedges that shield it from the wind and muffle street noise. I wonder what’s done with less welcome gifts. ‘The secret is to put the right piece in the right place, to be shown to best advantage,’ replies Goodenough, with unenlightening diplomacy.

The eclectic gardens reveal not only the Prince’s personal taste and passions, but also friends and important influences in his life. Familiar figures peer at you from hedges, pedestals

and gateways – composer John Tavener, Miriam Rothschild and ‘Debo’ Devonshire perch atop the Egyptian gate; mentor Laurens van der Post resides like Saint Simeon on a pillar; poet Ted Hughes nestles in a wooden neoclassical tempietto – designed by Julian and Isabel Bannerman from green oak cut to look like stone, its pediment filled with Scottish driftwood.

Eventually a roundabout route returns us to the Thyme Walk and the view of clipped golden yews leading from the Borghese Gladiator and the lily pond up towards the house itself – a beautiful but understated 1790s mansion. ‘All the experts advised His Royal Highness to remove the yews, which were part of the original garden,’ says Goodenough.

But the Prince, ever his own man, decided to keep them, instructing his gardeners to create unique shapes from each one. Formerly neglected, these eccentric, living sculptures, architecturally regimented within stilt hedges of hornbeam and surrounded by a shaggy carpet of lavender, agapanthus and thyme, have become the iconic view of the estate.

Just visible from this angle is the spire of the oak pavilion, a memorial surrounding the stump of a felled 200-year-old cedar – one of the trees with which the Prince became enamoured on first seeing Highgrove. Nearby, new life is represented by a young balsam poplar, which the Prince of Wales planted with his grandson, Prince George, in 2015.

Birdsong, scented flowers, luscious fruits, colour and texture – Highgrove is a paean to the five senses, a Wagnerian gesamtkunstwerk. If it’s true that the Prince of Wales talks to his plants, it certainly seems to work. Just 40 years on from being a blank canvas, this much-loved garden looks as though it might have been here forever. highgrovegardens.com n

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THE GUIDE

PLANTING IDEAS

G A R D E N I N G

SEEDER’S DIGEST

Brilliant bulbs and when to plant them. By Sarah Raven

GREEN CERAMIC VASE A rustic oval-shaped planter or vase with an aged, green-glazed finish which works brilliantly with all colours. £9.95.

E SEPTEMBER IN THE GA RDEN September is a busy time in the garden and things can quickly change from summer to the onset of winter. It’s a good idea to get on top of jobs now to save time and work next spring, and to prevent having to work in colder, harsher conditions.

» Continue sowing hardy annuals for early flowering next spring.

» Cut dahlias this month for stunning displays.

» It’s time to harvest apples, PHOTOS: © JONATHAN BUCKLEY; GETTY IMAGES

quinces and pears.

» Towards the end of the month think about planting forcing bulbs inside. » Let your pumpkins and squash ripen for harvesting next month.

ach spring I’m out on the hunt for exciting bulbs, old and new. I visit gardens and trial grounds here and in Holland, and immerse myself in tulips, narcissi, fritillaries and anemones.

I make a selection of things to plant in autumn from what I have seen, and then when they come into flower in the spring, we pick out the most special ones.

That’s when I put together new collections – one of my favourite jobs of the year, all grown and photographed at my home, Perch Hill. One of the best collections for a vintage and glamorous look is the Vintage Tulip Collection (from £34.50).

I absolutely love it – the faded sepia tone tulip mix looks like a Monet painting.

Try to leave planting your tulips for as long as possible, November is best. A few decent frosts help wipe out tulip blight spores.

BULB STARTER Give bulbs a head start with this granular mycorrhizal funghi-based biological fertiliser. It also includes vermiculite for good drainage and seaweed to stimulate root development. From £8.50.

INDOOR CHEER Wonderfully scented flowers brighten your autumn/winter kitchen and sitting room. They are easy to grow and definitely worth it for the cheer factor.

Amaryllis are fabulous winter houseplants; Amaryllis Gervase (from £10.95) caught my eye last spring, with its huge red anthers, pink blooms and delicate, marbled markings. Plant from October for the best results.

Or try the highly fragrant Scented Indoor Narcissus Collection, the quickest and easiest bulbs to have in flower indoors, from £15.95 including Avalanche, Cragford and Ziva.

BUMPER BULB PLANTER Ideal for planting whopper bulbs such as alliums and multiple smaller bulbs such as fritillaries – three in one hole. Solid ash handle and forged steel blade. £49.95.

20 per cent off for C&TH readers at Sarah Raven. Visit sarahraven.com and enter offer code CTH19. Terms and conditions: Offer ends 31 October 2019. Cannot be used in conjunction with any other offer or discount. *See website for full T&Cs All available at sarahraven.com

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THE GUIDE

From marriage to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Gabrielle Rifkind talks to Matthew Bell about the art of making peace Portrait by ALEXANDRA DAO

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abrielle Rifkind is not a household name, because people who resolve conflicts are rarely famous. But her involvement in international geopolitics is significant and far-reaching.

One minute she’ll be in North Korea, the next she’s meeting the leader of Hamas, her work all carried out in semi-secret, behind closed doors.

A specialist in Middle East conflict resolution, she’s Director of the Oxford Process, an independent preventive diplomacy initiative.

Her book The Fog of Peace was hailed by The Independent as an ‘urgent toolkit of ideas that can help all sides move beyond conflict’.

What makes Rifkind particularly fascinating is that by day she practises as a couples’ therapist. The techniques she uses to resolve problems within a marriage can be applied to striving for world peace.

For example, both parties have to want a solution before anything can be resolved. ‘Taking responsibility is a huge issue,’ she explains. ‘It’s one of the reasons there are so many problems in the Palestine-Israel conflict: neither side takes responsibility. Of course, there’s a huge asymmetry of power, with the Palestinians as the much weaker party, but you still have Country or to take responsibility for how you’re prepared town? Both. to move forward, and if people are not ready Power breakfast to do that, it’s almost impossible to make peace.’ or long lunch?

Much like in couples therapy? ‘Absolutely.

I’m not a lady who lunches. I’m In the psychotherapy space, so much of the work even known to is around people taking responsibility and not eat my breakfast just blaming others, which all of us quite like at my computer. doing.’ Not that she particularly advertises her Rolling hills or background in psychotherapy when dealing seaside? I think I’m a rolling hills with political leaders. ‘You have to be quite person because careful because politicians can be uncomfortable I can meander, about it.’ The important thing, she says, is to try think and walk – on my own. to understand why people behave the way they do. ‘If you live in conflictual situations, how Wine or green tea? Depends you think is very different compared to if you what time of live in a protected liberal world.’ day it is.

Her path to becoming a peace broker started Cat or dog? when she got a job as a probation officer, then Neither. an art therapist. ‘I loved being a probation officer Power suits or because I’ve always been curious about people,’ cosy jumpers? she says. ‘One of the very first things I did was Oh, definitely power suits. to take a wife to go and see her husband, who had killed someone, and it was the ordinariness of the

IN BRIEF

situation that struck me. These were just human beings. From a distance, they had done terrible things – but the truth is, I think we’re all capable of doing terrible things, given the circumstances.’

Do people sometimes enjoy conflict? ‘Some people benefit from it, they make a lot of money from it, and people who are in positions of power might have to give it up if the conflict is over – if they’ve been leading a military group, what might they do afterwards? So yes, there are probably between 10 to 20 per cent of people who actually benefit from the conflict, then there are ordinary people on the ground who really suffer.’ Does the same apply with couples? ‘I don’t think people are born wanting to have conflict, although I think if you’re born in a conflict zone, it’s easy to be brought up with the idea of an enemy.

People certainly want excitement, and they want a sense of belonging.’

Not surprisingly, Rifkind is not a fan of military intervention and blames the birth of the radical group Islamic State on Tony Blair’s intervention in Iraq. To apply the couples therapy technique for a moment, does it follow that Blair should take responsibility and say sorry? ‘I think it’s very difficult when so many people have died,’ she says. ‘If I was Tony Blair and said I was sorry, I might have a breakdown.’ Does she think he knows he did the wrong thing? ‘I don’t think you can allow yourself to think like that. I think you have to justify what you’ve done, that is the problem. His motives might have come from good intent, but the outcome was a catastrophe.’

How does achieving world peace work practically? Who chooses the referee? ‘I might go and talk to the Foreign Office and say: “Look, how about me trying to open these doors, what do you think?” And they might say, “Yes, so long as there’s deniability!” ’ So she doesn’t go as an official envoy? ‘No, because that comes with baggage and interest and that’s what diplomats can do. Whereas we can sometimes go to places where the official processes can’t go, or we’ll talk to people who are a bit more unsavoury.’ Who pays? ‘Sometimes governments do – the Norwegians and the Swiss spend a lot on it, the EU has at times, the British government talks about it but doesn’t very often. And then philanthropy money as well. Sometimes it’s the sale of my paintings.’

Rifkind has painted since she was 12, and every year takes August off to go and paint at her house in France. Although it’s an escape, her paintings are influenced by her work. ‘I’m interested in this idea that we have to live with opposites, with pain and pleasure, or dark and light, and it’s only when we can reconcile both that we can live not in conflict,’ she says. ‘Most people in conflict get into a sort of duality, and see things in terms of right and wrong, good and bad. To be able to peacemake you have to move beyond that. That’s what I like to paint about.’ n

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MAID OF STEEL

As Downton Abbey comes to the silver screen, Joanne Froggatt tells Lucy Cleland why she’s unafraid to tackle contentious issues or complicated characters Fashion director NICOLE SMALLWOOD Photographer RACHELL SMITH

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’m trying to get some juicy gossip out of Joanne Froggatt (known as Jo to friends and family), one of the stars of ITV series Downton Abbey. Did Maggie Smith have a booze problem? Do Hugh Bonneville and Elizabeth McGovern really despise each other? Does she actually find Brendan (her on-screen husband) really unattractive?

But none is forthcoming. It all sounds too much like happy families on the Downton set. ‘We genuinely did all get on so well,’ laughs Joanne, 38, mid-hair and makeup for our cover shoot at Heckfield Place, a suitably aristocratic location – though not quite as impressive as Highclere Castle, which plays the Abbey in the blockbuster show. Bonneville himself confirms this bonhomie when I write to ask about her. ‘Jo’s character [Anna Bates] is fundamentally kind, which in the wrong hands could come have come across as saccharine, but Jo has a delicious grit about her that added real toughness to the role and which, as writer, Julian Fellowes latched onto as the series developed.

Some of her scenes were hard to shoot but she always handled the work with a no-nonsense focus, laced with her impish, self-deprecating wit off-camera.’

Joanne smiles and remarks that his appraisal seems fair. ‘We used to call Hugh “The Daddy” on set because he was always very caring.’ So, no dramas apart from the ones written in the script? It seems not.

But fans shouldn’t care; what they’re really waiting for is Downton Abbey the movie, which comes to the big screen on 13 September and brings the creator and co-writer Julian Fellowes and the cast back together, three years on from when the final series ended.

It felt like a more straightforward age when Downton the TV series first aired in 2010, a time when terrestrial television could easily command charttopping viewing figures (the final episode drew in 6.9m UK viewers) and the rights were sold globally for millions – it’s estimated that more than 120m people in 250 territories have watched the series at some point. It seemed the world couldn’t get enough of the British aristocracy and their

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idiosyncratic behaviour: Downton gave the millennials their own version of Upstairs, Downstairs. It aired, however, just months before media behemoth Netflix entered the scene and disrupted traditional broadcasting for good, creating viewing sensations like The Crown and Stranger Things with vast budgets that made Downton’s reported £1m per episode seem cheap at the price. ‘What Netflix and the others have done is amazing,’ says Joanne. ‘Because of the production values and the quality of the scripts, they can now command the top one per cent of talent.’ She wouldn’t say no if Netflix came knocking. Nota bene.

But what can we expect from Downton the film? I’ve read it’s a slightly nostalgic look back and I question whether it’s really been made for the huge American

audience. ‘No, I don’t think so, but you’ll see all your favourite characters,’ she confirms, ‘and all the little dramas, the backbiting and the humour. It’s very much in the ilk of the show but elevated for the big screen. There’s a royal visit that lends itself to some great big set scenes.’

I wonder vaguely whether Trump’s a fan, like Michelle Obama.

And what about Anna, the kind and loveable maid, who certainly cranked up the dramatic stakes when she was violently sexually assaulted in series four, the role for which Joanne bagged herself a Golden Globe. ‘Anna’s really here, there and everywhere. She’s Lady Mary’s righthand woman and Lady Mary is still in charge of the household. Typically she gets involved in everyone’s business and tries to help smooth out the dramas. She’s very loyal to the family, so sets up a few characters to fail. There’s a lot of humour in it.’

It was the Downton rape that became its most controversial talking point. Horrified fans took to Twitter, aghast that their Sunday night viewing had been so sensationally corrupted. Joanne was far more sanguine, saying she was ‘proud’ of Downton for tackling the subject. And it’s this continued path of playing complicated, interesting and challenging roles – from which Joanne hasn’t deviated – that has made her the award-winning and bankable actor she is today.

Hugh was right when he said she added ‘grit’ and ‘real toughness’ to her roles.

Skip forward to 2018 and one of her proudest roles to date has been playing teacher Laura Nielson, in Jack and Harry Williams’ TV drama Liar, the second series of which she’s filming at the moment (we’ve been allowed access to her on a rare day off) and will be screened early next year. Once more, her character has been subject to horrific sexual assault but, unlike Anna, on whose side the audience automatically fell, this series was all about the September 2019 | COUNTRYANDTOWNHOUSE.CO.UK | 63

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Boots, Manolo Blahnik

ambiguity of who was telling the truth – victim or perpetrator – and led viewers on a merry dance of flip-flopping between first believing one and then the other. ‘Laura doesn’t behave how we expect victims to behave,’ explains Joanne about why many couldn’t believe the charismatic Andrew Earlham (played by Ioan Gruffudd) could be guilty. ‘We generally don’t like angry women so therefore the audience doesn’t empathise with her, they think he’s telling the truth. It really made people think about why they felt he or she was lying and that, just because they preferred the outward character of one to another, it made them more likely to believe them.’

It’s a pretty damning indictment of society that we’ll back the person who looks and sounds most convincing,

but all the more relevant in this #MeToo era (the end of the series aired just when everything came out about Harvey Weinstein).

‘With that, the show became even more of its time,’ says Joanne. ‘When I was doing publicity in the run-up, lots of people were asking how I felt about doing a thriller around this subject matter, whether I thought it was in bad taste. I said no. Why is sexual assault not included in a thriller or police dramas, which are always set around a tragic event like a murder, a disappearance, or a kidnapping? Why is sexual assault not on a par with that?’

Indeed, with more and more women opening up about sexual harassment and violence, Liar seemed to reflect a mirror back at us, forcing us to reassess our reaction.

‘I find all those sorts of questions that get thrown up, that aren’t morally black and white, really interesting because life’s never black and white – it’s always shades of grey.’

Drawn, then, to morally ambiguous plots and characters, Joanne found herself back on stage, after an eight-year absence, in Nicholas Hytner’s 2019 production of Harriet Lane’s psychological thriller Alys, Always at the Bridge theatre. ‘It was a dream job,’ says Joanne, who once again extols the satisfaction of playing a morally dubious character. ‘I loved finding this person who starts off so mousy and downtrodden in the beginning and turns into this vixen by the end.’

And with that, Joanne with her sunshine smile, her petite frame and steely gaze, is make-up perfect and ready to go out and meet the Duke of Wellington’s grey horse (borrowed for our shoot). Nothing, it seems, will faze this talented, tenacious Yorkshire girl who’s doing womankind – and British TV and film-making – a great service.

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ON THE FIELD CO U N T RY S P O RTS S P EC I A L

Whether you’re a crack shot, or rely on pot luck, these pages contain everything you need for the sporting season Baltray Dry Vintage waxed jacket with PrimaLoft, £299; Waterford GORE-TEX ankle boots, £189; Adare PrimaLoft jacket, £199; Fermanagh Goodyear-welted Chelsea boot, £299. All at dubarry.com

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HICKS & BROWN Feather brooch, £25

THE DECK Tailored suit, from £2,000

AMRAPALI Druzi Earrings, £2,780

YVES SALOMON Puffa, £1,260

HJ HALL Shooting socks, £16.50

PEREGRINE Scarf, £49

HUNTING SEASON Round trunk bag, £540

COUNTRY WEEKEND Rosalyn Wikeley selects shooting attire that’s stylishly unstuffy

HÄRKILA Shirt, £49.99

LE CHAMEAU Vierzonord boot, £180

AIGLE Rubber boots, £190.

GUINEA LONDON Kensington jacket, £355

SEE STOCKISTS FOR DETAILS. PHOTOS: HOUSE OF LUCAN © LUCAN FASHION. PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRIS BRACEWELL

Shooting weekends are rife with entrenched traditions for unwitting guests and novices to stumble over, repeatedly. Should you find yourself in this predicament, dial back the make-up and hair (hurdle number one), acquaint yourself with some warm and waterproof footwear (hurdle number two) and arm yourself with a sense of humour and killer outfit. Country gaffs are designed for swanning around in – just ensure this is well executed in velvet, silk, satin, and even a little feather flamboyance. (PS, ‘butt’ is a hidden bunker in grouse shooting, thank us later). n HOUSE OF BRUAR Plaid trousers, £99.95

RILEY STUDIO T-shirt, £45

TROY LONDON The Field coat, £625

PRINGLE OF SCOTLAND Argyle jumper, £525

SCHÖFFEL Country Cowes cap, £19.95

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ON THE FIELD FAIRFAX & FAVOR Trafalgar boot, £235

HACKETT LONDON Tartan chino, £175

FAVOURBROOK Nehru jacket, £690

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MUSTO Highland jacket, £400

ETTINGER Hurlingham overnight bag, £610

WILLIAM & SON Thermos flask, £260

HOUSE OF LUCAN Twill gilet, £395

NOBLE MACMILLAN Wash bag, £195

JOHN SMEDLEY Oscar jumper, £300

HOLLAND & HOLLAND Leather plus fours, £1,990

SIRPLUS Nehru waistcoat, £165

NEW & LINGWOOD Rococo dressing gown, £2,500

EDWARD GREEN Galway boots, £1,285

FARLOWS Canvas holdall, £299 KIKI McDONOUGH Essadore cufflinks, £250

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Style and sustainability: the Stella McCartney x Hunter collab was a natural fit

THE FIELD OF FASHION Thanks to a host of cool designer collaborations, the line between country and town is increasingly blurred, finds Rosalyn Wikeley

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or years it has been confined to the concrete jungle, fuelling mob-like flash sales, lofty fashion house’s egos and mass brands’ social caché. But the collaboration bug is fast spreading into rural Britain, a sartorial rendition of this magazine’s namesake that affords traditional country wears a generous puff of high fashion fairy dust.

Far from the dizzying list of H&M collaborations or high fashion ‘dips’ to secure a vivacious and invariably more lucrative mass market, we’re talking eponymous urban design eyes working their signature magic on heritage country brands. Such a pairing takes on a new dynamic in the sticks, where the seasons cannot be tamed and the catwalk amounts to a muddy field. Like it or not, functionality governs here and

Stella McCartney

‘We sourced sustainable rubber and used this amazing innovative material called Yulex™ for the sock inside which is also made from certified natural rubber’ STELLA McCARTNEY

designers entering this bucolic backdrop must work their magic around it.

Few know this better than Stella McCartney. She may be renowned for dressing environmentally conscious urbanites in sharply tailored garb, but McCartney grew up on a farm in Scotland and still makes for her country bolthole to ride her horses and clear out her lungs most weekends. When an opportunity arose to work with Hunter, McCartney embraced the collaboration as ‘a natural fit’, citing the brand’s heritage of using sustainably managed natural rubber from certified Guatemalan forests as a good starting point to create ‘the most sustainable wellington boots ever made’.

The sumptuously comfortable Yulex™ stretch sock lining the boot is where town meets country (forget cobweb-clad chilly welly interiors) and where sustainable style translates for the modern conscious consumer. Not only does the material use 80 per cent less carbon dioxide than more Are Stella x Hunter’s commonly used neoprene, wellies the most but it also has the elasticity sustainable ever made? and strength that country

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bumpkins or festival veterans are accustomed to.

Stella McCartney’s quest with Hunter to create the world’s most sustainable wellies will reveal itself on 13 September (a veritable celebration as it’s also the designer’s birthday), with men and women’s styles in three shades, to boot.

Another country brand flirting with city slickers is Barbour. With over 125 years under its wax heritage belt, Barbour personifies country living with durability and comfort at the very forefront of every new design venture. In the past decade or so, however, its fitted wax jacket has become synonymous with the British festival scene, a style-conscious, muddy hinterland between town and country markets.

And who wore it best? Alexa Chung, of course, whose Barbour’d ensembles sprouting gazelle-like limbs sky-rocketed Barbour into popular culture.

No one better then to collaborate with the 1894 heritage brand than Chung herself, who unwittingly played a seminal role in the brand’s style evolution.

Her own evolution from model to presenter, muse to fashion designer, is something of fashion career reverie. But, like Stella, Chung grew up worlds away from the fashion spin in country lanes and on ponies’ backs, with Barbour jackets dressing her childhood.

Her understanding of the practical demands of country clothing is innate, but so is an achingly cool sense of style that A bag with brains, governs her own fashion line. the ‘Stanley’ (£149) ‘I am always selective about the brands I collaborate with and often take months deciding whether or not to go ahead, but when I first heard about the opportunity with Barbour it really was a no brainer…’ she says.

Chung sought to create a line that showcased the ALEXACHUNG brand’s sensibilities while still nodding to Barbour’s iconic heritage, one that is ‘woven into the British psyche’. The project began in earnest in the Barbour archives in South Shields, where Chung immersed herself in the brand’s DNA and delved into its history: ‘From there, it was really about how to bring the brand’s identity to the pieces,’ she says, ‘so we played with colour, proportions and fabrics to create a collection which straddled both brands’ aesthetics.’

The A/W’19 Barbour by ALEXACHUNG collection, launching this month, tilts towards the transitional – designed to oscillate between town and country without raising urban eyebrows or succumbing to the elements in the field. The ‘Glenda’ is a stellar example, a reimagined Beacon Thornproof Alexa Chung jacket from the Barbour archive that is

A classic reimagined: the ‘Maisie Wax’ (£429)

‘Some of my happiest memories have unfolded in a Barbour. The smell of the wax alone makes me feel like I’m home’ ALEXA CHUNG

longer and comes in a roster of colours with a gingham lining. Or there’s the ‘Maisie Wax’ jacket (above), a chic ALEXACHUNG spin on an iconic 1930s Barbour style with oversized pockets and extra length. To shake things up, Chung not only stamped the collaboration’s unique logo (inspired by archive material) onto the exterior yoke of the outerwear, but also introduced accessories to the range for the first time, including the Barbour Bez waterproof bucket hat in a nod to the ’90s, and the Stanley Tote, ‘a bag with brains’.

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Really Wild make effortlessly cool country clothing

DON’T BE A BORE

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If you mean serious business, get kitted out at Holland & Holland

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A plump grouse

The patch of ground on which you’ll be shooting, and the point to which the beaters will rush the birds into the air towards the guns. On some estates there can be up to 30 drives – different environments in which to enjoy shooting.

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LEVENSES

The vital snack in between breakfast and lunch, often distributed from the boot of a Land Rover – or, if you’re lucky, from a tiny tent with a hotplate.

Expect nicely-charcoaled sausages, pigeon pie and Scotch eggs. Cor.

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First things first: you need to get dressed. It won’t do to go in your knickers. Chaps, listen up. For you, it’s a pair of tweed breeks (Scots for trousers or breeches), comfortable shirt, flat cap, jacket (see J), tie, jumper, and good, sturdy pair of boots – wellingtons or walking boots.

Women, get yourself layered up with a waterproof jacket – tweed or wax is good – with a gilet underneath if it’s cold. Add a jolly hat – a fedora or trilby will keep the sun out of your eyes – and a pair of moleskins, and you’re set once you’ve got your wellies on. And no one should forget ear defenders – crucial.

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ARLOWS

The best all-round country clothing shop at 9 Pall Mall, which also happens to be on the number nine bus route, and a stone’s throw from Piccadilly, so it’s absolutely no effort whatsoever. Far less fussy than Cordings, and the staff are charming and helpful. Stockists of all your favourite shooting brands – Schöffel, Musto, Le Chameau and many more. farlows.co.uk

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ROUSE

A speedy bird you may well find yourself facing. Comes in black and red-legged varieties, with feathery feet. Not to be confused with pheasant or partridge, both of which look – and taste – quite different.

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OLLAND & HOLLAND

Not just a very posh and expensive supplier of luxe country wear but also a gunmaker, founded in 1835.

Think modest midi skirts in practical colours, cosy waffle jumpers and fur-lined gilets. And then there are the guns – bespoke or pre-owned. Phwoar. Get your chequebook out. hollandandholland.com

Farlows is your one-stop shop to get kitted out

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Not the chap across from you at supper last night, but the measure used to describe the inner diameter of your shotgun’s barrel. A 12-bore gun is the one most widely used for both clay and game shooting, but 20-bores are also popular.

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The little nipper that flies through the air, in lieu of a bird, when clay shooting. Breaks when shot. Fun to take home as a little memento, if you can find a whole one somewhere (it will probably be the one you missed completely the first time).

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NDOOR SHOES

Yes, you’ll be outside most of the day with your feet stuck in wellies, but don’t underestimate the usefulness of something comfortable to wear when you go indoors for lunch or supper. Plus, you don’t want to get the carpet mucky.

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ACKET

Make sue you find one that will allow you to hold your gun. Yes, it sounds basic, but the best shooting jackets come with some handy add-ons to help your aim – try Le Chaumeau. Shooting pads on the front will prevent too much bruising, while action shoulders aid your movement and allow you to stretch your arms out properly.

K

EEPER

Or gamekeeper, to give him or her their full name. They are the boss.

They get up early, look after and rear the birds, manage pest control, and generally keep everything spick and span. Because they’re the ones who have done all the hard work in the run up to the shooting season, it’s customary to tip them at the end (see T).

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ESSONS

It’s fine to admit you need them. The best place to go? E J Churchill (see W) near London, the Roxburghe Shooting School on the Duke of Roxburghe’s estate in the Borders, or Barbury near Swindon.

Yes, we get it, you can shoot. Yes, we know, you haven’t missed a bird ALL DAY. But shush about it. It’s not a competition – the taking part really does count here. No one likes a show-off.

OVICE

Equally, something that it is absolutely FINE to be. No one expects you to be as good as Lord Stafford (see U) on your first go, or for you to have shot every season of your life so far.

Most importantly, don’t oversell your ability – this will quickly speak for itself.

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VER/UNDER

The modern type of barrelled shotgun, where the barrels are on top of one another. These were once sneered at in certain circles, where more traditional side by sides (see S) were preferred.

Now they’re coming into common usage.

The advantage? The gun has a single sighting plane – you look out and see one barrel, rather than two. But they are usually heavier.

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EG FLUFF

An un-lovely name for the girls that come with their husbands or boyfriends on shoots, and cheerily chirrup, ‘Well done, darling!’ every time he raises his gun.

Avoid – girls can shoot too.

Q

UAIL

You’re probably more used to seeing these in egg form in Waitrose, but technically you can shoot quail all year round, although they are very rare. Which reminds me, the seasons matter. It’s legal to shoot pheasant in England, Scotland and Wales from 1 October to 1 February (until 31 January in Northern Ireland); both red-legged and grey partridge from 1 September to 1 February (until 31 January in Northern Ireland); red grouse from 12 August (the Glorious Twelfth, the much-celebrated start to the grouse season) to 10 December in England, Wales and Scotland (until 30 November in Northern Ireland); and duck and goose from 1 September to 31 January across the UK.

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SVP

Promptly. An invitation to a cracking shoot is well worth having – and your host may have other people in mind if you can’t make it, so check your diary as soon as possible. If you can’t attend, don’t put off replying out of awkwardness but get back to the host straight away – they’ll just be relieved to hear from you.

Partridge and game chips by the British Game Alliance and Eat Wild

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IDE BY SIDE

The more elegant shotgun, originating in 18th-century France, where the barrels are – as the name suggests – side by side.

Preferred by many of the old guard, these are traditional, often beautiful guns, and coveted – at least aesthetically – on the shooting field.

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IPPING

It’s vital you don’t forget this. The gamekeeper has worked hard to get your day’s shooting ready, so it’s only polite. But how much to tip? A general rule is £20 plus £10 for every 12-bore 100 birds shot that day, side-by-side, but liaise with your

by Purdey. fellow guns to come £125,875 up with a solution.

PHOTO: REX FETURES

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UNBELIEVABLE SHOTS

Those whose skills you’ll be desperate to emulate include…

Lord Stafford, 65; Thomas van Straubenzee, 37; the Countess of Lucan, Anne-Sofie Foghsgaard, 41; any of the Percy family: the Duke of Northumberland, 62, his brother Lord James Percy, 54, and his daughters Lady Katie, 37, and Lady Melissa (Missy), 32.

Always always send a thank-you letter, as soon as you get home.

Non-negotiable. Don’t forget to crack a joke about some of the birds getting away and compliment the host for ‘getting together such a jolly group of guns’.

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ERY LOVELY SUPPERS

Take your goodies home with you.

The birds will be divided up and it’s just ungrateful not to take your share. There are plenty of delicious recipes to be had for pheasant, partridge or grouse – or whatever else you might be shooting – so get Delia out and crack on.

Lady Melissa Percy

PHOTO: REX FETURES

Thomas van Straubenzee

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WEST WYCOMBE

Legendary shot Sir Edward Dashwood’s Georgian estate in Buckinghamshire, and where E J Churchill is based, the famous shooting ground and perfect place to brush up your skills.

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OURS!

What your neighbour will shout if a bird comes into your airspace out of theirs. Now you can lay claim to it and shoot it yourself.

What you also shout if a bird has zipped into your neighbour’s airspace and out of yours, obviously.

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ZZZZ

Get a good night’s sleep first.

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Jeremy Taylor drives a 1978 ‘Reborn’ classic Range Rover to the exact spot where the Land Rover story began 70 years ago

Jeremy took the Range Rover Classic (1978) Reborn on a pilgrimage to Red Wharf Bay, alongside the latest model, an SVAutobiography Dynamic

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t first sight it appears an unlikely location for the birth of an icon: a sandy inlet blasted by winds from the Irish Sea. But Red Wharf Bay on the Isle of Anglesey is now a mecca for motoring enthusiasts around the world. There are no explanatory signs or markers, but this is where the seed of the Land Rover legend was planted.

One of the world’s most recognisable and capable vehicles, it was first sketched out with a stick in the sand, right here on a Welsh island.

In 1947, Maurice Wilks was an established chief engineer at the Rover Company and enjoyed a passion for the countryside. After WWII, he split his time between his home in Warwickshire and a farm not far from Red Wharf Bay. The fields were often slippery and wet, so Wilks used an army surplus Jeep left over from the war to scrabble around the estate. He realised it would be much more effective if only he had a machine specially designed for the job and so, together with his brother, Spencer, Rover’s MD, they dreamed up the now-legendary, all-purpose utility vehicle.

Parked outside Stabal-Penarth barn

As the pair walked the beach discussing their plan one day, Maurice found a stick and famously drew out the shape of his ‘vehicle to rove the land’, as his brother looked on. This apparently innocuous moment produced what has since become one of the most well-known design sketches in automotive history.

The first Land Rover was launched at the Amsterdam Motor Show less than year later, on 30 April, 1948. Later known as the Series I, it was powered by a 1,595cc petrol engine and cost a modest £450. By 1949, the British Army had ordered its first trial batch, while the royal family took delivery of theirs in 1953 (the Land Rover Defender became a favourite of the Queen).

Updated and improved models followed, but it wasn’t until 1970 that Land Rover went a step further and created the world’s first luxury SUV, the Range Rover. One of the few vehicles to deliver permanent four-wheel drive, it was displayed at the Louvre in Paris that same year, as an exemplary work of industrial design.

Over time, the Range Rover has evolved into another design icon. Built with Land Rover’s trademark ‘go-anywhere’ facility, the latest top of the range SVAutobiography Dynamic (SVA-D) is a majestic drive at the very pinnacle of luxury motoring.

Two years ago Land Rover launched the Reborn programme for customers who want

V I TA L STAT S Range Rover Classic (1978) Reborn Robert Bateman and Bristol Foster drove the custom WAC 337 Land Rover over 60,000 km around the world

A fleet of HM Coast Guard Land Rover Series III in 1988

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Firenze Red

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PHOTOS: ©JEREMY TAYLOR

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TOP SPEED 99 mph

155 mph

ECONOMY The restored classic, in its original 1978 Bahama Gold colour, arrives side by side with a modern SVA-D on the Anglesey beach where Land Rover was conceived

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‘BOTH OLD AND NEW LAND ROVERS PROVE THE PERFECT VEHICLES TO TACKLE THE TWISTS AND TURNS OF SNOWDONIA NATIONAL PARK. EFFORTLESSLY COMFORTABLE, THEY’RE INFUSED WITH THE SAME DNA’

R A NGE ROV ER L A N DM A R K S

1970

PHOTOS: ©JEREMY TAYLOR

Original two-door Range Rover Classic goes on sale.

a restored, vintage Range Rover for their collection. Reborn revives highly collectible vehicles from the 1970s, using the company’s expertise to bring them back to the high standards of their original condition.

And today I’m embarking on a ‘Land Rover Experience’, driving the very first restoration car out of the workshop – a 1978 Range Rover Classic in the period colour of Bahama Gold. My Land Rover ‘instructor’ steers the new SVA-D alongside, a car capable of 0–62 mph in under six seconds, and equipped with every conceivable extra.

Our pilgrimage to Anglesey starts, appropriately, on the Fosse Way in the Cotswolds, since Range Rovers have always been built at the Solihull factory in Birmingham and new models are often trialled along this fast stretch of road, near Bourton-on-the-Water.

Starting our journey in style, we stay over at the 17th-century Slaughters Manor House, in one of the country’s prettiest villages.

It is quintessential England, with sweeping lawns, stucco ceilings, Dubarry wellies on the doorstep and a dining room that promises

1972

Range Rover crosses Darien Gap on the 18,000-mile British Army Trans-America expedition.

1979

A Range Rover wins the inaugural Paris-Dakar rally (and again in 1981)

1981

First production of the four-door Range Rover appears, along with the first factory limited edition – the ‘In Vogue’

1994 2001

Second-generation Range Rover introduced

Third-generation Range Rover introduced

2002

500,000th Range Rover produced at the Solihull plant

2012

Fourth-generation Range Rover introduced – the first allaluminium SUV

2016

Range Rover SVAutobiography

launched

2017

First ‘Reborn’ restored Classic available from Land Rover

an excellent cream tea. I sleep in Valentine, a gorgeous bedroom in the coach house, with an open fireplace, whopping four-poster bed and twin slipper baths. It’s a hotel that perfectly complements a Range Rover.

Next day it’s just four hours across country to the Isle of Anglesey. First stop is Eastnor in the Malverns, where for decades Land Rovers have been tested to the limit off-road. Still in use today, it’s now open to the public, who can hone their mud-slinging driving skills with an expert.

Driving northwards past Shrewsbury and Oswestry on the Welsh Borders, both old and new Range Rovers prove the perfect vehicles to tackle the twists and turns of Snowdonia National Park. Effortlessly comfortable, it’s clear these luxurious SUVs are infused with same DNA, despite being more than 30 years apart.

We spend a night near Pwllheli in the beautifully converted Stabal-Pernarth barn from Dioni, which sits in splendid isolation on the Llŷn Peninsula next to a historic medieval hall house, Penarth Fawr. It’s an idyllic retreat, just a brisk walk from golden beaches and Pwllheli Marina, a place Maurice Wilks would have approved of, with its roaring woodburner, cosy bedrooms and our brace of Range Rovers outside the stable door.

Fortunately, the tide is out next day when we reach our destination. Red Wharf Bay is a picture postcard of little boats marooned on the sand. Dogs splash through the rock pools and customers at the Ship Inn are enjoying a balmy summer’s afternoon in the pub garden.

Few walking the sands know of the motoring legend that has made this beach so significant to enthusiasts. The bay remains relatively untouched, little different to when Wilks first etched his design. Yet, with a new Land Rover Defender just launched at the Festival of Speed, some surely realise they’re stepping in the footprints of a motoring great.

STAY: The Slaughters Manor House, Bourton-onthe-Water, slaughtersmanor.co.uk; Stabal-Penarth Barn, Pwllheli, dioni.co.uk.

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DRUNK DRIVES The true proof of a shooting weekend is in the eating (and the drinking), says Adam Edwards

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the fashion is for a remote bothy hidden away in the hills, where here is a popular misconception among those who don’t the guns often ‘go native’ by cooking their own food (obviously with shoot that blood sports are first and foremost about the help of an under-keeper). This shooting picnic was given the killing. This is an easy mistake to make, especially royal imprimatur by the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh in the 1969 when espying a platoon of tweed-clad city slickers with fly-on-the-wall documentary Royal Family, when the Windsors were double-barrelled shotguns boasting about the partridge they plan pictured cooking burgers in a bothy on the Balmoral estate. Since to pepper that day. That bravado is pure urban swank. then every Scottish house party has been obliged to have at least one In fact, shooting is about lunch, a euphemism for an all-day or two servant-free meals outside a spartan hut miles from civilisation. spread that would raise a smile with Just William and the Outlaws.

Recently, many of these stone cabins have fallen prey to interiors It’s a beano arranged by chaps for chaps. There are no flowers snobbery and been upgraded to include Scandinavian wood-burning or frilly bits, and the only nod to one’s five-a-day are the ketchup stoves, dressers and smart dining tables. Unfortunately the food, bottle and slice of lemon in the G&T. unlike the furnishings, has not improved.

The party tends to start with a hangover from the night before, The lunch, both north and south of the border, is particular to the earned at the pub where the shooting party is staying. The eight host, but most follow a similar pattern. The guns, having shed their or nine guns take their morning-after DTs to their host’s house coats and boots, stand around in their thick shooting socks pouring at about 9am, where they have a bacon roll and, depending on the large drinks from an extensive collection of virgin bottles of owner’s love of imbibing, an early morning ‘heart-starter’. spirits on a side table. The talk is briefly of the day’s sport, At my regular shoot, for example, a glass or two of one before it moves on to City and society gossip. part Ribena to eight parts Prosecco, a local variation on After several cocktails, the guns sit down to steak the Kir Royale, complements the butty. Other shoots and kidney pie cooked by the head gamekeeper’s tend to lace a morning mug of tea with a soupçon wife (‘an absolute treasure’), more often than not of whisky. It is over this breakfast that each gun puts served in a Pyrex dish. The pie comes with two and £10 into a sweepstake to guess the size of the day’s sometimes three different potatoes (roast, mashed ‘bag’ (the number of birds shot). This is a delicate and boiled) and three overcooked vegetables matter; if you guess too low it insults the host (carrots, peas and broccoli), washed down with who has arranged the shoot, while too high will lashings of cheap claret. Pudding is crumble, embarrass him if he planned a small bag. or a variation of, with a choice of custard or By the time that early morning refreshment cream. Grapes and cheese (Cheddar and Stilton starts to wear off, usually after the second or third with a stalk of celery and digestive biscuits) and drive, it’s time for elevenses. This is commonly an a bottle of port follow, before dreadful coffee al fresco affair, served from the back of a Range and ancient fruitcake complete the meal.

Rover, consisting of thermos flasks of warm This is the moment the head gamekeeper bullshots (consommé and vodka in equal parts) appears. His arrival forces the talk, uncomfortably, or shots of sloe gin, whisky or The King’s Ginger back to country pursuits. His face is flushed with liqueur, plus beers. In addition to the drink drink – taken while the guns had lunch – and pride there’s a selection of soup, sausage rolls, crisps and when he announces the size of the bag, which brings every type of chocolate bar. The bars are squirrelled a cheer from the winner of the sweepstake. into jacket pockets to stave off certain starvation The group begins to break up soon after lunch. during the second half of the morning.

Outside, the keeper stands by the dead birds, which The timing of luncheon is a matter that divides are laid out on the ground in pairs. Each gun, in a the shooting community. Keen shots like to break disorderly and embarrassed manner, shuffles up to for a meal before going back for more killing and the keeper, shakes his hand and then, like a convict nature in the afternoon. These lunches tend slipping a note to a fellow inmate, palms him an to be sober affairs and are hated by those of obligatory £40 tip. In return, the gun receives a brace a more sybaritic nature, whose rural skills are of birds that he will dump as soon as he can, for limited to heating a Cornish pasty in a microwave; nobody can be bothered to pluck the creatures. they prefer to ‘shoot through’ – in other words, And then, at the death of the shoot, when to finish all the shooting before eating.

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GORGEOUSLY GRAINY Fashion designer Roksanda Ilinčić applies her hand to a curated space of art and interiors at Gasholders London, a series of residences in King’s Cross.

In a penthouse suite, the interiors emphasise the natural beauty of wood.

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Inspiration from The Talbot’s feasting room, thetalbotmalton.co.uk

House of Bruar Candelabra, £495. houseofbruar.com

William Edwards for William & Son China plate, £30. williamandson.com

Baytree Interiors Bottle stopper, £14.95. baytree-interiors.co.uk

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Begg & Co Jura Tilden stole, £190. beggandcompany.com

Set the shooting party scene

Glorious Twelfth calls for an interiors update, particularly if you’re hosting any of the season’s shooting suppers. A dining room thoughtfully strewn with country sporting motifs will impress even the most stylish of shots – think silverware adorned with birds, specially-upholstered cushions and feathered table settings which bring the outdoors in. n Sophie Allport Fabric, £25 p/m. sophieallport.com

Wingfield Digby Cock pheasant tray, £85. wingfielddigby.co.uk

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Club Matters Glass platter, £28. clubmatters.com

English Pewter Company Shot glasses, £45. johnlewis.com

Andrew Martin Cushion, £79. andrewmartin.co.uk William & Son Silver beaker, £600. williamandson.com

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EVERYTHING IN ITS PLACE Design ideas to deal with the flotsam and jetsam of autumn, from gun cabinets to welly boot rooms. By Carole Annett

1 Kitchen maker Humphrey Munson’s personalised dog bed features dovetail joints. From £295. humphreymunson.co.uk 2 K&H Design created this boot room with hideaway cupboard (painted in Edward Bulmer Red Ochre) for flower arranging. kandhdesign.co.uk 3 Gun room, designed and built by Mark Wilkinson Furniture. mwf.com 4 Natalia Miyar designed a games room in the barn of a country house. A perfect weekend chill zone for teenagers. nataliamiyar.com

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THE INSIDER

D E S I G N

LIT T L E BL ACK BOOK

Q & A

MASSIMO BUSTER MINALE

WALLPAPER Calico. calicowallpaper.com

London architect and industrial designer behind Buster + Punch The Eames lounge chair in Villa Minale

CUSHIONS Another Human. anotherhuman.la

for an artist rather than a business.

What should never have seen the light of day? The plastic

light switch. It cheapens all the love you pour into your décor.

Inspiration? Fashion and music are streaks ahead.

Most recent find? A first edition 1965 Eames lounge chair. It has been in my family for 30 years, lost for the past ten, and recently found again in the back of our garage.

Most extravagant purchase?

RUGS Kasthall x Lara Bohinc. kasthall.com

Last piece of art you bought?

Zaha Hadid

Lindsey Adelman’s Branching Bubble chandelier.

Design hero? Zaha Hadid.

I worked for her as a young architect. It was exciting to work

Nick by Matt Small. The artist paints in layers of colourful oil on objects he finds in the street.

Gadget? My Pocket Operator from Teenage Engineering, a small electronic music maker that keeps me from scrolling on my phone.

What would you never throw away? Old photos. Life is always

FABRICS Kitty McCall. kittymccall.com

more impactful when you look back at it.

PHOTOS: OLOF RINGMAR; ADAM HELBAOUI; REX FEATURES

Whose home would you like to nose around? Virgil

Abloh, an architect and now creative director of Louis Vuitton. I bet his home would be a graveyard for all those ideas that didn’t make it.

PRESENT FOR THE HOST Byredo candle. spacenk.com

Which designers do you have your eye on? Leah

Matt Small, Nick

Ring (Another Human), David Flack (Flack Studio) and Demna Gvasalia (Vetements).

What do you collect?

American light fittings.

What are you currently working on? With Buster Buster + Punch designer bulbs

+ Punch, a bathroom hardware range and a short film featuring a famous musician. n

FURNITURE Massproductions. massproductions.se

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TIME TO CHANGE YOUR VIEWS Come on a JC Journey

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EAT DRINK ESCAPE

FOOD & TRAVEL A R G E N T I N A

GET ON YOUR HIGH HORSE Rosalyn Wikeley saddles up with South American gauchos in the Sierra Chicas

Take to the hills for an Argentine adventure

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n hour south of Córdoba, wedged between the Pampas and the Andes, lie the Sierra Chicas, Argentina’s ancient range of hills, with their BOOK IT kaleidoscopic carpet of wildflowers, jagged rocks and Norwegian soft grasses that billow in the hot wind. Occupying this flies direct from London to Buenos magnificent landscape, along with eagles, condors and Aires daily from iguanas basking in the sun, is Estancia Los Potreros, a 6,000£250 one way acre working cattle farm and off-grid paradise that has been (with spacious premium seats), in the Begg family for four generations. It’s this same wildly and has recently romantic corner of Argentina that Che Guevara grew up in launched domestic and Jackie Kennedy escaped to in 1966. flights throughout Argentina, Louisa (Lou) and Kevin Begg endeavour to keep it that including Córdoba way and, with the Estancia’s unparalleled trail-riding into from Buenos Aires. the undulating land-before-time scenery (there are over norwegian.com 90 Criollos and Peruvian Pasos to saddle up), Los Potreros Doubles at satisfies every bucolic myth associated with rural Argentina.

Estancia Los Potreros Guests sleep in traditional farmhouses with stand-alone from $780 baths, mustard-yellow walls and quaint wooden shutters. all-inclusive.

Hearty Malbec lunches roll out across a wisteria-clad estancialos potreros.com veranda and on into drowsy afternoons coated in dandelion fluff. Evenings are made of slightly smarter, candle-lit stuff: you’ll be lucky if the greyhound offers you up the sofa for 8pm drinks, but tapping into Kevin’s encyclopaedic knowledge of Argentinian wine and history is less of a challenge. The panoply of unfussy dishes emerging from the 400-year-old kitchen tells the Out of office: Rosalyn rode story of Argentina’s heritage, with several of the Estancia’s horses Italian and Spanish influences

as well as legendary Argentine fare, with beef, eggs and vegetables from the Estancia’s own estate.

The Beggs serve up an enlightened take on luxury, and guests are encouraged to tap into the social mores and rhythms of rural life. This includes riding with the gauchos, herding cattle on horseback, rounding up foals before nightfall – to keep them safe from the mysterious puma – and neatly folding empanadas in the kitchen with the chef.

Their refreshingly inclusive approach to the riding side of the operation pulls in equestrian fanatics, fair-weather riders and absolute beginners, with equal enthusiasm. My plus-one arrives as an equestrian ‘fresher’, yet is herding stray cattle and scaling the dusty tracks carved into the Sierra Chicas at a gallop by day three, much to my irritation.

Clipped pony club etiquette has little purchase in these parts – it’s about leaning back into your saddle, holding your reins with one hand, John Wayne style, and connecting with your sure-footed steed as it weaves through the acacia trees. These handsome Pasos and Criollos have sharp senses and a connection to the ecosystem enveloping them that can direct you to that condor circling above the ride or the foxes and hares bouncing through the soft valley beyond. A twinkleeyed proposition – ‘¿Galope?’ – from the gaucho is rarely declined as the vast, verdant landscape unfolds ahead.

Their visceral horsemanship and skill is truly a sight to behold, as is the guides’ casual mastery of their mounts, diligently monitoring stirrups, girths and guests’ stamina as they go.

Following an exhilarating canter through the hills, we tie up our horses in the shaded orchard and enter Kevin’s

PHOTOS: TONY CLERKSON; COURTESY ESTANCIA LOS POTREROS

Exploring on horseback is the best way to experience the magnificent Sierra

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The Begg’s family home is steeped in history and filled with yesteryear trinkets

late father’s escape: a quaint, colonial-style house, with views of the hills’ relentless beauty, that inside wears the trinkets and décor of yesteryear Argentina.

Wine, olives and a large, everrotating spread of meats and salads miraculously appear, as they did yesterday on the warm rocks of the Estancia’s enchanting natural pool (and as they will tomorrow, on a rustic table at the cattle ranch, where guests’ lasso techniques are merrily scrutinised). Few things can prepare you for that swell of awe while cantering home towards slashes of vivid pink, as the sun bids farewell for another day.

The ponies undergo an elaborate makeover for Saturday’s polo day, their tails wrapped and manes roached for the big game. A fierce Argentine sun beats down on the Estancia’s magnificent polo field and an optimistic border collie eyes the ball Lou Begg is using to demonstrate their diluted version of the game. ‘Don’t hurt yourself, don’t hurt my horse, don’t hurt each other.’ Any flagrant abuse of the rules and it’s a red card. And rightly so. Unlike the enigmatic, protracted and financially draining world of British polo, the Beggs’ morning tuition for their version fast-tracks the process, resulting in a fun (and at times fiercely competitive) game to be had between guests. ‘No crossing, go, HOOK!’ Never has applied learning had more impact. Spectators begin to behold something vaguely resembling the sport of Kings. ‘Yes Dave, vamos, vamos, GOAL!’ The gaucho pelts his steed up the line in rapture.

Avid polo players or fresh disciples can sign up for an intensive ‘Learn to play Polo’ week, Swimming in the natural pool run under the expert supervision of a local professional, but all guests will have one day during their week’s stay to lift a mallet.

Despite the equestrian bias, Estancia Los Potreros more than delivers on the out-of-saddle aspect, with walking, wild swimming, winetasting and exploring Jesuit churches and villages on offer for reluctant riders or those wanting a day off. It’s also a feast for bird-watching enthusiasts, from vultures and eagles down to tiny effervescent hummingbirds. For some visitors, though, it’s simply about soaking up the rural idyll with a book, relishing the chef’s exquisite Argentine classics, and enjoying Kevin’s wine-tasting soirées, where he showcases his Salta favourites.

Ultimately, whether you’re there to relax, feel engulfed by the Sierra Chicas’ desolate beauty on horseback, or be at the mercy of the guides’ savage wit, Estancia Los Potreros is one of those far-flung places whose magic presses in your memory, months, even decades, after your visit. n

PHOTOS: TONY CLERKSON; COURTESY ESTANCIA LOS POTREROS

PONY CLUB ETIQUETTE HAS LITTLE PURCHASE IN THESE PARTS – IT’S ABOUT LEANING BACK INTO YOUR SADDLE AND HOLDING YOUR REINS WITH ONE HAND, JOHN WAYNE STYLE

The Estancia’s friendly gauchos teach guests to lasso and herd cattle

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INTO THE WILD A sustainable experience like no other in the Malaysian wilderness, The Datai Langkawi offers the ultimate luxury hideaway

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The Datai Langkawi is located between the sea and rainforest

The Spa Villa

Go monkey-spotting on a canopy walk

Beautiful bathing in a Beach Villa

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link and you may miss The Datai Langkawi, so burrowed it is within the tropical foliage and primordial mountains of its surrounding ten-million-year-old rainforest, but once found, you’d be wise to keep the secret. An unforgettable experience amid the Malaysian wilderness, The Datai Langkawi offers world-class refinement underpinned by a commitment to sustainability and meticulous attention to detail. Whether in the heart of the forest amid flying lemurs, or nuzzled shoreside on the white sands of Datai Bay (one of National Geographic’s top ten beaches in the world), where the sound of crashing waves is your only alarm, at The Datai time stands still.

Designed to unveil the splendour of Malaysia while undertaking sustainability measures to preserve its beauty, the resort’s 121 exquisite suites and villas are immersed in the surrounding nature. Everything about The Datai Langkawi has been conceived to break the barrier between wildlife and resort; guest and forest, and nowhere is this more evident than in The Spa. Treatments take place in outdoor pavilions for a uniquely immersive experience drawing on the healing energy of nature. Spa music is substituted for the sounds of trees and birds, with treatments inspired by traditional Malay Ramuan (or rituals) alongside a holistic offering by Phyto5 and a Pedi:Mani:Cure studio by Hollywood favourite Bastien Gonzalez.

Traditional Malay Silat classes are available alongside yoga, Pilates and fitness, while the Nature Centre offers a curated tea corner.

In keeping with the resort’s penchant for the exceptional, experiences here are guaranteed to make lifelong memories. The canopy walk is led by renowned naturalist and author, Irshad Mobarak, who introduces the Rimba Trail through coastal forest, and on a 15-metre high canopy walk to see colugos and families of dusky leaf monkeys. Immerse yourself further with kayaking and bird watching excursions through the UNESCO mangrove led by the team of naturalists and marine biologists. The resort’s commitment to protecting this unique habitat has put conservation and sustainability at the heart of its offering, including consuming less energy, water and banning all single-use plastics. Wedged between the Andaman Sea and primeval rainforest, The Els Club Teluk Datai’s awardwinning 18-hole golf course offers a golfing experience unlike any you’ve encountered before.

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Described as a visionary brand, it looks beyond the journey and destination, to deliver a tailor-made experience that fits like a glove, in which the standard is exceptional and once in-a-lifetime moments are regular occurrences.

Providing more than simply a fivestar hotel and first-class flights, at Carrier it’s about emotion, fulfilment, reward and ultimately, happiness. As with any luxury brand, heritage, craftsmanship and service comes as standard with Carrier, but when you travel with ‘The Luxury Operator of the Year’, you’ll discover that creativity and a personal touch is at the very heart of its culture. Each experience is in itself a work of art, brought to life through a deeper customer Save up to 26 per cent connection and a close network with Carrier’s free of facilitators and connectors. nights offer: seven Every journey will be nights from £2,345pp beautiful, not just in an aesthetic in a Canopy Deluxe Room, including way but in a truly authentic breakfast. Includes way. It will also be purposeful; return economy uniquely and creatively crafted flights from London to meet the individual needs Heathrow with British and desires of each and every Airways, private car transfers and Fast traveller, opening minds to Track Voyager service the awe-inspiring possibilities at London Heathrow. and new personal experiences Valid for travel that surprise, enlighten and between 1 September transcend all expectations. and 19 December

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FOOD & TRAVEL THREE MORE...

T R A V E L

N E W S

THE HOTEL WIZARD

EXCEPTIONAL GUESTHOUSES

Glorious guesthouses and where to find them. By Fiona Duncan

Masseria Il Frantoio, Puglia, Italy A whitewashed farmhouse where owners Armando and Rosalba embrace the tenets of slow living through the finest of traditional Puglian cooking.

From £200. masseriailfrantoio.it

LA BORDE, Burgundy

1 The unusual combination of ownerrun chambres d’hôte with the comfort and facilities of a grand luxe hotel.

2 Which means that Rik and Marieke Klomp, originally from Holland, cook and serve a simple dinner (escargots, dos de cabillaud, local cheese, dessert) in their beautiful home, in the dining room or on the terrace…

3 ... But there’s also a gym, small spa, large heated pool, fabulous games room, tennis, basketball, pétanque…

4 ... And two helipads, of course.

5 And six gorgeous suites with handmade beds and deep baths.

DON’T YOU JUST HATE? Privately-owned guesthouses are much more genuine that many luxury hotels. Here’s a list, in no particular order, of my current bugbears, found in the latter, but never the former: trendy plates and cutlery that you can’t actually use.

Too many cushions… where to put them? Tiny toiletries.

Chocolates or teddies on the pillow… hang on, they’ve all but disappeared, thank God. Lighting more complicated than an old fashioned on-off switch.

Tweed caps for country hotel staff.

Butlers or anyone who tries to unpack my suitcase. Open kitchens that take away the romance of dinner à deux. Boring breakfasts – it’s the last meal you’ll eat there and therefore the most important to get right.

The Cider House, Devon, England Bertie and Bryony Hancock are enchanting and clearly love running their equally enchanting guesthouse in the grounds of Buckland Abbey.

From £140. cider-house.co.uk

Comuna do Ibitipoca, Brazil The creation of Renato Machado, who has bought and reforested a huge swathe of Minas Gerais. Nothing jars, only invites in to the beautifully restored 1715 farmhouse. From £480. ibiti.com

ON THE TR AVEL R A DA R FIELD DAY Head to Lewes for AS Apothecary’s amazing Meadow Spa facial, also available at Beaverbrook. £78. beaver brook.co.uk

MAGICAL MAKEOVER The Clive Arms, Ludlow’s farmto-fork inn, has had a complete facelift. theclive.co.uk

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TEN REASONS WHY I LOVE...

6 But what’s really special at medieval La Borde is the garden that Rick and Marieke have created over 20 years from fields, recognised by the Ministry of Culture as a ‘Jardin Remarquable’.

7 Which indeed it is. The roses alone, smothering the buildings, are draw enough…

8 But the avenue of limes, topiary, potager, banks of irises and peonies, arboretum, pond, roseraie and jardin à la française are all beautiful too…

9 As are the views of lush Burgundian countryside that encircles.

10 This is luxury with a personal touch, and the greatest luxury is the place itself.

Doubles from €325. lbmh.fr

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FOOD & TRAVEL Old meets new: traditional Old Town or high-rise Bocagrande?

THE ESSENTIALS

STAY Bang in the centre of Old Town, Casa San Agustín is a boutique gem that perfectly encapsulates Cartagena’s rich history. Once three private homes, it has been elegantly transformed into a 31-room hotel filled with original details. hotelcasasanagustin.com

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W E E K E N D E R

CARTAGENA

SEE Abaco Libros y Café (abacolibros.com) in the Old Town is a boho bookshop and café with local and international reads lining its walls – grab anything by Gabriel García Márquez and be transported.

Getsemaní, a hip neighbourhood that has gone from seedy to sexy and is guaranteed to smash your IG.

There’s colour on every corner

Soak up the sun by day and salsa all night, says Olivia Palamountain

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Journey Latin America offers a four-night stay at Casa San Agustin in Cartagena, Colombia from £1,664 per person B&B, including flights and transfers. journeylatin america.co.uk

Traditional dress in the Old Town

ew cities evoke as much glamour and mystery as Cartagena, a place where street life is king and salsa is religion. Built between the 14th and 19th centuries, it was once one of the West Indies’ most important ports and as the money rolled in, the city flourished, becoming a prime target for pirates and buccaneers in the process.

Immortalised in the ’80s classic adventure rom-com Romancing the Stone (Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner – swoon), Cartagena remains a riot of colonial charm and AfroLatin energy, guaranteed to seduce any visitor. Circled by an ancient fortified wall (a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1984), the old-world glamour and decadence of Cartagena Old

Town cannot be underestimated.

Labyrinths of cobbled streets and characterful houses painted every colour of the rainbow give way to elegant squares and impressive churches. Expect to be entertained by performers and acrobats, accosted by charming hustlers and wooed by gorgeous arts and crafts, surrounded by balconies dripping in bougainvillea, many of which house excellent bars and restaurants.

However, the city still has its edges – tourists are advised to remain vigilant – as well as an ultra-modern face in the high-rise beachfront area of Bocagrande. Colombia’s answer to Miami, it’s one of the most expensive areas of real estate in the country and home to both Cartagena’s swankiest residential addresses and some seriously chi-chi hotels. n

EAT For original Caribbean recipes head to La Cocina de Pepina in Getsemaní, where local legend, chef, sociologist and architect, Maria Josefina ‘Pepina’ Yances serves up kick-ass ceviches and a lifechanging mote de queso (cheese soup).

BUY Cano for gold-plated jewellery – perfect statement pieces to offset simple outfits (canojewelry.com). Casa Chiqui (casachiqui.com) and St Dom (stdom.co) offer unusual artisanal crafts.

DO Charter a boat out to the white sand beaches of Tierra Bomba and check in to Blue Apple Beach, Colombia’s answer to Nikki Beach, where a sexy crowd sips cocktails to ambient beats. There are rooms available if you want to keep the party swinging. blueapplebeach.com

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LATIN AMERICA

LATIN BEATS

Four sensational city stopovers. Edited by Daisy Finer

▲ BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA

BE Jardin Escondido

A contemporary glazed crittall wall in this Buenos Aires oasis reveals a bucolic scene falling somewhere between Tuscany and Latin America: a courtyard flanked with ivyclad oxblood walls and teeming with exotic plants, featuring a quaint swimming pool and leafy enclaves where you can devour a book or relish the drinks trolley. This charming refuge from Palermo Soho’s alltoo-hip hustle and bustle was once home to director Francis Ford Coppola, so you’d be forgiven for seeking aesthetic parallels with The Godfather. It's now a Bourbon Exclusive

hotel but he comes back often to write and feed off the neighbourhood's vibrant kinetic energy, making the Italianate romance of the elegant dressers and wrought-iron beds feel instantly authentic. Guests are greeted with tea and coffee on arrival and a friendly, direct service pervades the place.

Breakfast is when you like it, how you like it (their homemade yoghurt and banana bread are heavenly).

With only ten rooms, everyone gets their fair share of the balconies-in-bloom, the meaty coffee table books in the onyxtiled sitting room and the Patagonian gin. Gaucho accents complement this Italian affair, adding a flavour of the pampas with hide rugs, taxidermy and framed Argentine tapestries. It's all lightly brushed with a contemporary hue, to satisfy those hankering after both sides of the century.

BOOK IT: Doubles from £180. thefamilycoppolahideaways.com

▲ CARTEGENA, COLOMBIA

Sofitel Legend Santa Clara

When the nuns of Santa Clara prayed in 1621, little did they know that, 400 years later, their convent would be transformed into one of Cartagena’s tip-top institutions. Nor could they have guessed that the great novelist, Gabriel García Márquez, would live next door and be so struck by the convent’s restoration that it would inspire his bestselling 1994 novel, Of Love and Other Demons. Today this muchloved hotel, built within the convent’s shell, has been brought bang up to date, yet the place hasn't been crushingly modernised and original features are intelligently woven in – the charming cloister, festooned with tropical plants, still surrounds the ancient water well.

The nuns’ cells have been slotted into the 123 rooms, which blend Sofitel’s French elegance with splashes of Colombian flair. Elsewhere, spot crypts, confessionals and even the odd cannonball recovered from a pirate attack.

Superb French fare and an outstanding wine list can be found in 1621, the nuns' old dining room. Spend the day exploring the city’s maze of multi-coloured buildings before cooling off in the ginormous pool or zoning out with a delicious Sisley massage in the spa.

BOOK IT: £1,398 per person for four nights, including transfers and flights. journeylatinamerica.co.uk

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▲ HAVANA, CUBA

Hotel Kempinski

Located in an art nouveau building in the centre of old Havana, a stay at this hotel is worth it for the rooftop pool alone. Lounging here with a cocktail in hand while watching the sun set over the 360-degree views of the old town is pretty hard to beat, particularly at the end of a hot day spent exploring the city.

The rooms are luxurious and modern with truly gigantic beds, rainforest showers and balcony views over the city’s main square and beyond to El Floridita, Hemingway’s infamous drinking hole, (known as the ‘home of the daiquiri’), where fleets of rainbow-coloured Cadillacs wait to take you for a spin. Cuba isn't really known as a holistic destination but the hotel’s Spa Albear has a great selection of massages, wraps and facials to rival any five-star spa and its hydrotherapy suite is a lovely place to relax and restore your energy after a hard day’s sightseeing.

BOOK IT: Doubles from £290. kempinski.com

▲ SANTIAGO, CHILE

The Singular

Santiago, South America’s safest city, is no longer playing it safe. Once the launch pad to Chile’s wealth of natural wonders, its happening restaurant and art scene now make it deserving of a longer stopover. There’s no better base than The Singular in the cultural hub of Lastarria. Its monochrome palette is singularly slick, from the chessboard chequered floor to the minimal black and white photography above the bed.

If you’re craving some colour, head to the

rooftop pool to soak up Santiago’s skyline – complete with 22-metre statue of the Virgin Mary on Cerro San Cristóbal (Santiago’s Christ the Redeemer) – and join polished Santiaguinos sipping punchy pisco sours (request yours ‘tradicional’ rather than ‘peruano’ to gain favour). Withdraw from city life in the small but perfectly formed spa or by tucking into ingredients sourced from the length of Chile – all 2,653 miles of it. The verdict? Well worth singling out.

BOOK IT: Doubles from £205. thesingular.com

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Q & A

THE BUCKET LIST Hugh Bonneville’s escapades, from Utah to Ibiza. By Holly Rubenstein

Next up: Rio de Janeiro

What’s at the top of your bucket list? I’ve never been to South America. I want to go to Rio and Macchu Picchu, and I would love to then go right down south on a trip to Antarctica before it completely disappears (partly caused by the engine fuels from the boat I’m on). Maybe I’ll get to visit Peru if we film Paddington 3!

Happy memories of family holidays in Tamariu

When filming the Downton movie, where was most memorable? We filmed a couple of times in Lacock in Wiltshire – Lacock High Street pops up in pretty much every costume drama you’ve ever seen. It’s a beautiful place, but I always feel a great sympathy for the people who live there who must be so fed up with horses and carriages turning up all the time.

Lacock, Wiltshire, where some Downton scenes were filmed

Tamariu, on the Costa Brava in Spain. We’d drive down through France as a family in the 1970s to get there. It still pops into my head whenever I smell olive oil. I was never allowed on the beach until I’d had my olive oil put on by my mother.

So basically I was fried for most of my childhood.

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WHAT DESTINATION MOST REMINDS YOU OF CHILDHOOD HOLIDAYS?

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Hugh’s favourite hotel is Amangiri in Utah

Mihir Garh in Rajasthan

Can you recommend us a hidden gem?

A hotel called Mihir Garh, about an hour and half from Jodphur in India. I came across it when I was filming Viceroy’s House and I had a weekend off. It’s a tiny place in the middle of the desert.

Country or town house? Well, I live in the country, so I’d like you to fix me up with a London town house please. I’m not fussy – Wilton Crescent is fine.

A hotel hidden in the rocky Colorado Plateau

Where do you always eat well?

J Sheekey in London, and The Hut in Colwell Bay on the Isle of Wight. The most extraordinary piece of food theatre I’ve experienced was at Noor in Cordoba, Spain. A pageant of food appears bit by bit, with grace and elegance.

What is your favourite hotel? Amangiri in Utah. I was so utterly surprised by it.

A hotel literally carved out of the rock is so extraordinary to look at. It looks like something out of Star Wars. The rooms are simple but really cool, and the vista and whole surrounding terrain lends to an atmosphere that I found really exciting and different.

The Hut, Colwell Bay

Where do you keep going back to? We keep going back to Ibiza, but my days of foam and whistles are long gone. We go because my wife works on photo shoots for her shirt brand Indigo Island there. We’ve recently discovered Ca Na Xica which is a tranquil, modern boutique hotel – perfect for couples who want to unwind. My wife works and I lie by the pool feeling really helpful.

Hugh loves unwinding by walking the South Downs Ca Na Xica in Ibiza

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WHEN YOU NEED TO UNWIND, WHERE DO YOU ESCAPE TO? I LIVE NEAR TO THE SOUTH DOWNS AND THAT’S MY HAVEN. I LOVE HIKING ALONG THE DOWNS WITH MY DOGS AND MY FRIENDS, TAKING IN THE VIEWS. Downton Abbey is in cinemas 13 September n September 2019 | COUNTRYANDTOWNHOUSE.CO.UK | 103

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R E C I P E

GOOD HARE DAY The PIG’s James Golding pulls it out of the hat

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his unusual but brilliant dish started life as a way of encouraging more people to eat rabbit.

Our grandparents would have been used to it, but the appeal seems to have been lost now.

We’ve got lots of good game around – top-quality lean meat such as rabbit, pigeon, partridge and pheasant – that we’re not using, which is crazy. So Kamil, Head Chef at The PIG at Bridge Place in deepest Kent, came up with this recipe, and it’s proved really popular at all the festivals (and with kids, too!).

METHOD

INGREDIENTS SERVES 4 » 2 rabbits (ask your butcher to joint them into shoulders, loins, legs and thighs,removing the bones from the thighs) » 3 eggs, beaten » Rapeseed oil » » » » » » »

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FOR THE BRINE 4 litres water 600g salt 520g sugar 4 sprigs of rosemary 2 garlic bulbs, cut in half 20g black peppercorns Cornish sea salt and freshly ground black pepper FOR THE SPICY FLOUR MIX 500g flour 70g celery salt 70g paprika A pinch of cayenne pepper

First make the brine. Put all the ingredients in a pan, bring to a simmer, then allow to cool. Place the rabbit in the brine for 20 minutes and, while it’s soaking, sift all the dry ingredients into a bowl.

Remove the rabbit from the brine, rinse and pat dry with a clean tea towel or kitchen paper. Preheat the oven to 180°C fan.

Fill a deep-fat fryer with oil, or half-fill a large saucepan, and heat to 190°C, or until a cube of bread browns in 30 seconds.

Coat the rabbit by dipping the pieces in the beaten egg, then the flour, and then repeat the process so that they’re evenly coated. Fry in the hot oil for three minutes until golden. Transfer to the oven and cook for ten minutes, then allow to rest for five minutes.

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JAMES GOLDING Chef Director for The PIG Group Food philosophy? I love to cook with local British, seasonal and wild ingredients. Food sourced from people who you know and who are passionate always tastes better.

First dish you learned to cook?

Chicken and saffron risotto with my Nonna when I was eight years old.

Most vivid childhood food memory?

My parents making pasta together in the kitchen and then drying it out on coat hangers all over the house.

Biggest mistake? When I was working at Le Caprice in London as a teenager, I was entrusted with reducing 20 bottles of red wine to make a sauce. I had to run downstairs to get more produce and got distracted... I think you can guess the rest!

Most memorable meal out? The Fat Duck. So much fun, so different and such a treat. I knew some of the chefs too so I got a very rare kitchen tour.

When was the last time you sent something back to the kitchen?

I was once served raw chicken…

When I’m not in the kitchen I’m... On a clay shoot, a river bank, or foraging and eating with friends and family.

Do you have any unusual kitchen rules? Everyone must say please and thank you, and everyone shakes hands at the end of a service.

What’s in your fridge right now?

English truffle, leftover Chinese and my son’s school-made Jambalaya.

Least favourite ingredient? Okra.

It’s so slimy!

Who would you most like to take out for dinner? The legendary French chef Auguste Escoffier – I’d love to see how he thinks the UK food scene has changed since his revolutionary vision all those years ago.

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PROPERTY

HOUSE OF THE MONTH Sell it to us in a sentence… The dream property for someone seeking a home steeped in history, without the desire to step into the stressful world of planning consents, building work and redecoration.

In what style has it been decorated?

Contemporary with beautiful period details, thanks to the current owner’s indepth research into Georgian properties.

Any juicy history? It was designed in 1817 by architect Sir Robert Smirke (who also has the British Museum and Eastnor Castle under his belt), and the property was included in the Herefordshire edition of Pevsner’s The Buildings of England.

Haffield House, Ledbury HR8 Price: £5.5m 10 bedrooms 7–8 bathrooms 18,601 sq/ft 120 acres

What will keep us entertained?

With 120 acres of beautiful parkland, pastureland, woodland and stables, nature and country sports lovers will never be bored.

Perks of the area? Haffield House is in a highly sought-after, peaceful setting accessed along a 700m long serpentine drive off the A417. It’s just four miles from the medieval market town of Ledbury.

Does it have any sporting rights? Yes! The estate incorporates some managed mature mixed woodland which is licensed for shooting – it was formerly a small sporting estate, which ran a number of pheasant drives from the woodland.

What’s on the doorstep? There are glorious walks and riding routes through the surrounding countryside and over the Malvern Hills.

The current owner says… ‘Restoring Haffield House to its former glory while updating it to suit family needs has been a career defining challenge.’

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Crossrail brings this country town within reach of downsizers, says Anna Tyzack Three Swans Hotel in Hungerford

When in Hungerford Pub lunch The Bear is a Hungerford institution. greenekinginns. co.uk New frock Mojo & McCoy has fans all over the West Country. mojoand mccoy.com

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or those looking to live in proper countryside, within commuting distance of a desk in the City, the West Berkshire market town of Hungerford has become something of a hotspot.

‘It’s a quiet, rural area with dark skies at night yet perfectly accessible from the capital,’ explains Nick Loweth of Knight Frank in Hungerford. ‘And when Crossrail comes to Reading, the commuting opportunities will be even speedier.’

The promise of Crossrail has prompted a new wave of London leavers to the area – those who’d previously found the one-hour commute from Hungerford station to Paddington a beat too far. They’ll find a vibrant community of locals in Hungerford, surrounded by authentic countryside, picturesque villages, and even their own ancient feast, a Hocktide knees-up known as Tutti Day. According to Knight Frank, London leavers now account for more than 30 per cent of property purchases. ‘It used to be the poorer cousin to

Marlborough, but its shops and restaurants have become significantly better over the past ten years,’ says Tom Hudson of property finders, Middleton Advisors. ‘Yet it still feels like a big village, surrounded by parkland and a common with cattle roaming over it.’

Located on the border of Berkshire, Wiltshire and Hampshire, the town is well placed for excellent shoots, extensive cycling routes and racing at Newbury and Barbury Castle. ‘There is so much on your doorstep to keep you busy at the weekend,’ Loweth says. ‘And access to the M4/M3/A34 makes it easy to get around.’

There’s a Waitrose in Newbury and useful independent shops (and lots of antiques shops) in Hungerford itself – Bridge Street is known locally as ‘the Bond Street of Berkshire’. In every direction there are revered local pubs serving excellent food, including the Harrow in Little Bedwyn, the Three Tuns in Great Bedwyn, and the Dundas Arms on the canal at Kintbury.

Sunday stroll Walk east along the towpath of the Kennet & Avon Canal to the hamlet of Kintbury and its riverside pub, the Dundas Arms. dundasarms. co.uk New Barbour and wellies Roxtons on Bridge Street is an excellent country sports emporium. roxtons.co.uk Date night The Woodspeen is a Michelinstarred restaurant and cookery school. thewood speen.com

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The canal runs through Hungerford

Decent cuppa Grab a book from award-winning Hungerford Bookshop (hungerford bookshop. co.uk) and read it over a flat white at Eliane. elianesmiles.com

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PROPERTY Culturally, Hungerford has its own film club and historical society, and hosts a literary and arts festival each year.

There’s also exceptional schooling, with good state primaries in Hungerford and the surrounding villages and numerous prep schools nearby, including Pinewood, Cheam, Farleigh, Thorngrove and Horris Hill. Local public schools include Bradfield, Marlborough College and St Mary’s Calne, while Eton, Sherborne, Winchester and Wellington College are all within an hour and a half’s drive.

The many handsome period properties within walking distance of the station make Hungerford an attractive proposition for London downsizers. ‘You can pop back into town to watch the cricket or go to the opera, or stay to enjoy a pub lunch in a beer garden with a stunning backdrop,’ Hudson says. A four-bedroom house on one of Hungerford’s prime streets costs from £750,000, with the

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Hungerford: antiques heaven

larger family houses selling for over £1.5m.

Families tend to look for properties in villages within a few miles of Hungerford, such as in Kintbury to the east, which also has a train station, Eddington to the north and Ham or Shalbourne to the East.

‘Kintbury is stuffed with professional couples living a rural life yet working in London,’ Hudson says. The string of villages to the north-west of the town, along the banks of the river Kennet, are also highly sought-after, such as Ramsbury and Chiltern Foliat.

Five-bedroom family houses with a couple of acres cost from £1.5m, while the largest country houses sell for more than £5m.

Two years ago Jess Chatham and her husband Gareth sold their home in Fulham and bought a barn conversion in the hamlet of Hamstead Marshall, a few miles from Hungerford, where her parents live. ‘The commute was tiring for Gareth initially but he soon got into the swing of it and the children settled in well to their prep school,’ Jess explains. She works from home but travels to London regularly for meetings, returning in time to pick up her two children from school. Life is less frenetic in West Berkshire, she says, yet every bit as social – a number of their London friends have moved to surrounding villages and they’ve made new friends through their children’s school.

It’s on Sunday evenings, however, that Jess and Gareth most appreciate their move out of London. ‘We used to be stuck in traffic on the M4, returning home from my parents’ house or from staying with friends in the country,’ she says. ‘But now we sit out on the terrace with a glass of wine watching the stars, wondering why we didn’t make the move sooner.’ n

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HAMSTEAD MARSHALL, £3.75m Holtwood Corner is a neo-classical family house in grounds of nearly 18 acres, with views towards Combe Gibbet. It’s designed for family living, with six bedrooms and a lower ground floor to be used as a gym or cinema room. There are pony paddocks and an indoor pool complex. knightfrank.com

INKPEN, £2.35m Beacon House is a five-bedroom family home in Upper Green, three miles from Hungerford. The property features a large family kitchen/breakfast room plus gardens, studio, garage and paddocks. The Crown & Garter gastropub and Honesty bakery are a short walk away. struttandparker.com

EASTBURY, £1.65m First Stone Barn is a listed conversion on the edge of the village, surrounded by the Lambourn Valley. The main rooms all have a southerly aspect across mature gardens, and the accommodation is wellproportioned, with good ceiling heights, a Smallbone kitchen, five bedrooms and a chlorine-free pool. knightfrank.com

RAMSBURY, £650,000 A period cottage in the heart of the village with three bedrooms, reception hall, kitchen, sitting room and garden room. There’s also a cellar for storage.

Outside is an attractive garden and within walking distance are water meadows, footpaths and bridleways. knightfrank.com

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PROPERTY

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Robert Kime

ROBERT KIME

HOM ES SW EET HOM ES THE STARTER HOME

Interior decorator to royalty and antiques dealer What was the first house you owned? An old school house

in a village near Marlborough.

Best thing about it? It was an architectural gem by the architect Robert Abraham – an octagon with four wings and space for my shop. ... and the worst? It was too small.

Where do you live now? A flat on Warwick Square in Pimlico.

Alderbury, near Salisbury, £1.5m The Old School House in a village near Sailsbury was a functional village school until the early 1990s when it was lovingly converted into a family house. There are sizeable reception rooms, large kitchen/ breakfast room and family sitting room plus six bedrooms. The gardens have mature borders, a vegetable garden, wild-flower meadow and the original playground, which could become a tennis court. hamptons.co.uk

Why did you choose this particular location? It’s only a ten-minute

walk from my shop on Ebury Street; I used to live on Museum Street but following my wife Helen’s death, I wanted a change of scene.

What do you love most about it? It was built by Thomas Cubitt and it was where he lived. It’s a beautiful, doublefronted space with 11ft ceilings. It feels like a country house in London.

Favourite room in the house? The drawing room has lovely proportions despite being divided into three rooms when I bought the property.

Do you have a second home? I have a house in the south of France near Apt. It was a ruin when we bought it, with no floors or ceilings and hidden amid brambles, but we mended it and made a beautiful garden with irises and quinces.

What do you look for when you’re house hunting? The space

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has got to strike me somehow. I can make something out of practically anything.

What compromises are you prepared to make? It doesn’t

His first property was in Marlborough

have to be perfect immediately; if the proportions are there, I’m prepared to gut it and start from scratch.

If money was no object, where would you live in London? Warwick

Square – it’s a happy place for me.

Goult, Provence, €1.795m A charming Provençal farmhouse with swimming pool and pretty views of the Monts de Vaucluse, near the picturesque village of Goult. There is a large living space, equipped kitchen with pantry, dining room, laundry room and five bedrooms. The land also includes a workshop, outbuildings and garages. knightfrank.com THE FOREVER HOME

Describe your signature interior style? I like

rooms to be laid out in such a way that you have to zig zag through furnishings.

What has been your most extravagant purchase? The 16th-century Uşak rug in my

How successful have your investments been? I’ve never lost money but neither have

I ever been interested in making it.

What advice would you give to a first-time buyer? Ask yourself what makes the property Robert escapes to a second home in Apt

interesting for you? It’s got to speak to you in some way or it’s not meant to be. robertkime.com

Warwick Square, SW1, £1.765m A fully renovated garden apartment with an orangery, reception room with high ceilings, and modern kitchen with breakfast bar. There is also a more formal dining area. There are two generous bedrooms, a dressing room, and two bathrooms. Warwick Square is a private square with award-winning gardens and residents’ tennis court. hamptons.co.uk

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drawing room. I bought it at Christie’s in New York and it is really magical.

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PROPERTY

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SPORTING ESTATES

For the price of a two-bed in SW1, you could be laird of a Scottish sporting estate.

Or you could pay rather more for a similar property closer to London, says Anna Tyzack DORSET, £12m

Dewlish House near Milborne St Andrew is one of the finest homes in the county; a Grade I-listed gem with a lake and stunning parkland. There are six grand reception rooms, 11 bedrooms and leisure facilities including a swimming pool and tennis court. Formal gardens by Geoffrey Jellicoe surround the property, which also features stables, six cottages and 296 acres of arable, woodland and farmland. The sporting, timber and mineral rights are included in the sale. knightfrank.com

SUFFOLK, £5.5m

The current owners of the Worlingham Hall Estate have improved the conservation and sporting potential of the 448-acre estate, ensuring it is now a haven for wildlife. There are lakes and flight ponds providing a perfect habitat for wild ducks and geese, and woodland and marshes for woodcock and snipe. The house itself is an important Grade I Georgian country house and there are four additional dwellings, a swimming pool and tennis court. knightfrank.com

INVERNESS-SHIRE, £2.35m Holme Rose is a Georgian country house and estate within ten minutes of Inverness airport, with 1.35 miles of single bank salmon and sea trout fishing on the River Nairn. There are also exciting roe deer stalking opportunities and the potential to establish a pheasant shoot. The house features three reception rooms, eight principal bedrooms, as well as two flats. There is also a Gate Lodge and four further estate cottages plus formal gardens and a 1.8 acre former walled garden. knightfrank.com

ANGUS, £3m Brechin Castle, between Dundee and Aberdeen, is a historic home on a bluff of rocks, surrounded by landscaped gardens.

The River South Esk crosses the estate, providing the opportunity to catch salmon and trout in the Castle Pool. The castle has 16 bedrooms, shoot rooms, estate offices, two gate lodges and three further estate houses and cottage, plus 70 acres, which has in the past formed part of an excellent driven pheasant shoot. savills.com

ABERDEENSHIRE, £2.85m Culquoich is a private and secluded residential and farming estate with opportunities for driven shooting, stalking and fishing. Situated at the centre of the estate and lying to the south of the River Don is Culquoich House, amid mature gardens with spacious reception rooms and six bedrooms. The estate has over three miles of right bank trout fishing on the River Don and is well-known for the quality of its deer. There are also three further houses and more than 900 acres of pasture, hill and woodland. savills.com

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Sami Robertson looks forward to helping you. sami.robertson@knightfrank.com 020 3589 2698

39 ft reception room with 2.9m ceiling heights Secure underground private parking A number of private facilities including a gym and swimming pool Approximately 3,747 sq ft (348 sq m)

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Elegant Period home with a beautiful west-facing garden.

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Clarendon Road, Notting Hill W11 A unique and wonderfully proportioned Grade II listed family home with large windows providing excellent light on all levels. Clarendon Road is a particularly quiet street benefiting from a traffic controlled one way system.

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Caroline Foord looks forward to helping you. caroline.foord@knightfrank.com 020 8166 5451

Situated in one of the premier roads in Notting Hill Planning permission granted for an extension under the garden Arranged over four floors Approximately 3,169 sq ft (294 sq m)

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Tom Tangney looks forward to helping you. tom.tangney@knightfrank.com 020 3589 2698

Beautifully presented with great entertaining space Master bedroom with en suite and dressing room West-facing terrace on the first floor Approximately 5,493 sq ft

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Bezier Apartments, City EC1Y This remarkable penthouse apartment is the epitome of city living with extensive outdoor space and parking. The development comprises of two curvaceous residential towers and is conveniently situated equidistant between Shoreditch and Clerkenwell.

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All bedrooms have access to their own balcony Decked terrace with a hot tub shower Underfloor heating throughout Approximately 2,528 sq ft

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All potential tenants should be advised that, as well as rent and the deposit, an administration fee of £288 and referencing fees of £48 per person will apply when renting a property (if not an AST). (All fees shown are inclusive of VAT.) If the landlord agrees to you having a pet, you may be required to pay a higher deposit (if not an AST) or higher weekly rent (if an AST). Please ask us for more information about other fees that will apply or visit www.knightfrank.co.uk/tenantfees.

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Entry to the raised ground floor via a grand hallway 6th-floor terrace with rooftop views Refurbished 6 years ago Approximately 3,600 sq ft

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Lee O'Neill looks forward to helping you. lee.oneill@knightfrank.com 020 3641 9344

• Two underground car parking spaces • On site gym facilities • Approximately 2228 sq ft

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Beaumont Street, Marylebone W1 Perfectly positioned in the heart of Marylebone, just one street over from the renowned boutiques and restaurants on Marylebone High Street and a short walk from the green open spaces of Regent's Park.

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Double garage and two off-street car parking spaces Large roof terrace 4 bedrooms laid out over 4 floors Approximately 2,140 sq ft

Christian Lock-Necrews looks forward to helping you. christian.lock-necrews@knightfrank.com 020 8128 0978

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£3,950,000

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• Fully refurbished retaining much of the period charm • Private landscaped garden • Approximately 3766 sq ft

James Marshell looks forward to helping you. james.marshell@knightfrank.com 020 8166 5293

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£3,750,000 knightfrank.co.uk Connecting people & property, perfectly.

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Queensberry Mews West, Knightsbridge SW7 An exceptional new build apartment on a charming cobbled mews in the heart of South Kensington.

• Featuring high ceilings and a cinema room • Interior designed by Finchatton • Approximately 2,033 sq ft

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Pont Street Mews, Knightsbridge SW1X A turnkey low built mews house finished to exacting standards with excellent proportions and superb light.

• 23 ft wide frontage • Interior designed and fully refurbished • Approximately 1,476 sq ft

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• Private landscaped roof terrace offering views of the River Thames • Excellent storage and distinctive design features • Approximately 2092 sq ft

Lee O'Neill looks forward to helping you. lee.oneill@knightfrank.com 020 3641 9344

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£3,500,000 knightfrank.co.uk Connecting people & property, perfectly.

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Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge SW7 Rutland Gate is centrally located between Knightsbridge and Kensington only a short distance from Hyde Park and the international shops, bars and restaurants of Knightsbridge.

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Grade II listed first floor flat Large balcony and high ceilings Impressive reception room Approximately 1,500 sq ft

Roly Ingleby-MacKenzie looks forward to helping you. roly.im@knightfrank.com 020 3641 5930 07833 400415

Guide price

£3,350,000

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• A recently renovated late Georgian townhouse • Private rear garden • Approximately 1947 sq ft

James Marshall looks forward to helping you. james.marshell@knightfrank.com 020 8166 5293

Guide price

£2,350,000 knightfrank.co.uk Connecting people & property, perfectly.

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Bright and spacious with plenty of natural light Large, open living area with modern fireplace feature Bedrooms benefit from fitted wardrobes and en-suite bathrooms Approximately 1370 Sq ft

Guide price

£2,250,000

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Clanricarde Gardens, Notting Hill W2 An interior designed flat arranged over the raised ground floor of this well presented stucco fronted building. Benefits from excellent volumes, an abundance of natural light and charming period features.

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Good room proportions Excellent transport connections Marble work surfaces Approximately 725 sq ft (67 sq m)

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£1,200,000

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Constantine Bay, North Cornwall A spacious detached family house set in an exceptionally large plot about 300m from one of the best surfing beaches in Cornwall.

6 bedrooms, 3 reception rooms. Available for sale for the first time since 1952.

EPC – F Padstow 4.5 miles, Newquay Airport 15 miles.

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AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALAND LUXURY PROPERTY 2019

LUXURY HOMES IN THE COFFS HARBOUR REGION OF NEW SOUTH WALES AUSTRALIA World Class Apartment in Auckland New Zealand

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THE COFFS COAST Coffs Harbour, Bellingen, Sawtell, Sherwood, Emerald Beach, and more

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et between the mountains and the sea, the Coffs Coast is a palette of breathtaking colour with villages, World Heritage rainforests, waterfalls, marine reserves, and over 100 golden beaches between Nambucca and Red Rock.

Areas like Sherwood and Corindi Beach offer a quiet lifestyle environment where no one will interrupt your peaceful stroll through the forest or along the beach.

GETTING THERE Qantas, Virgin Australia and Tiger Air all operate flights between Sydney and Coffs Harbour. Coffs Harbour is 530km by road north of Sydney and drive time is approximately six hours.

CLIMATE Coffs Harbour has a warm, subtropical climate. Summer (Dec–Feb) is hot and humid.

Winter (Jun–Aug) is mild and drier and the winter days are superb.

EAT Two of Sydney’s top chefs opened a licensed café, The Hilltop Store, inside a 1924 general store in Sawtell, with a focus on local produce and refined lunch dishes. Nearby, the café at the Sawtell Surf Club was renovated and relaunched in April as The Kiosk Sawtell. The sweeping ocean views complement a menu of acai bowls, homemade sourdough crumpets, burgers and Will and Co coffee. Cedar Bar and Kitchen is located in an old church in Bellingen with stained glass windows and seven metre high ceilings, serving share plates of local produce and wines. Try a seafood platter by the water at Shearwater Restaurant in Coffs Harbour.

BEACHES The Coffs Coast is made up of pristine, quiet beaches with many kid friendly as well as having great surf breaks. Emerald Beach,

Woolgoolga and Moonee Beach are three unspoilt beaches north of Coffs Harbour that are perfect for escaping the crowds. Parks and Jetty Beach are the main beaches of Coffs Harbour, with many cafes nearby. The rock pool on Bonville Headland at Sawtell is a beauty, a natural swimming pool fed from the ocean and well protected from the swell.

ACTIVITIES Dorrigo National Park is a small but exquisite subtropical rainforest with World Heritage credentials. Find Crystal Shower Falls along one of a network of walking trails that wind through mossy cathedrals of towering sassafras, red cedar, coachwood and yellow carabeen trees. Observe underwater creatures at Solitary Island aquarium, migratory seabirds at Mutton bird Island and native flora and fauna at the North Coast Regional Botanic Garden, all at Coffs Harbour. Don’t forget to visit the Big Banana, a much-loved icon of the region.

For purchasing real estate on the Coffs Coast or any of the beautiful towns in the region please talk to Peter Stone your local expert at Real Estate of Distinction on Mobile: +61.413.111.621, Email: peter@reod.com.au or visit his website at www.reod.com.au

COFFS COAST EDITORIAL AND IMAGES CREDIT: DESTINATION NSW MELINDA AYRE EDITORIAL OFFICER AND FLORENCE ROCCA PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGER.

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Hill Valley Farm

Lifestyle, Privacy and Eco Sensitive Less than 30 minutes from Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia A lifestyle property with plenty of room for all your family and their friends!

AUD $3,300,000 (Approx: £1,725,000 or US$2,230,000)

This magnificent rural property of 175 acres is located in a very private north facing valley less than 30 minutes from Coffs Harbour New South Wales or 6 hours from Sydney. Hill Valley Farm gives you and your family the opportunity of a secluded rural lifestyle with no neighbours, no noise and an income.

Built to the highest standard, the main residence is a superbly constructed, architect designed Eco-residence built all on the one level. Surrounded by established native and sub-tropical gardens with mountain views and an incredible sandstone escarpment backdrop.

Overlooking an enormous lake, each of the 4 cottages comes with kitchen, laundry, timber floors and large covered deck.

The property also includes large equipment shed with concrete floor, kitchenette and bathroom. Included in the sale are a tractor with implements, mulcher, excavator, log splitter machine, Polaris Ranger, Polaris quad bike, Kazuma 4X4, Hammerhead 250cc and all equipment and tools.

There is a 61 Megalitre license, another two dams, 200 established macadamia trees, huge steel shed plus macadamia machinery.

WIWO includes - All farm plant and equipment, farm animals plus all cottages fully furnished including linen and appliances.

There is also a very private 100 acre property with 4 bedroom home adjoining this property for sale for AUD$900,000.

Key features include: • Substantial master bedroom with large walk in wardrobe and ensuite bathroom • Spacious office, two double bedrooms, stylish bathroom and adjoining rumpus room or additional living space • Huge open plan living area with stunning angled ceilings and hardwood flooring • Wonderfully planned kitchen has high quality appliances throughout and overlooks the undercover entertaining area • Separate guest wing with two large bedrooms, bathroom and all weather entertaining area • Four superbly constructed, solar powered, self-contained fully furnished two bedroom cottages • Huge rainwater storage plus off the grid solar system Peter Stone

Managing Director Real Estate of Distinction 1 / 4 First Avenue Sawtell, NSW 2452 Australia Mobile: +61.413.111.621 Office TEL: +61.2.6658.4700 Peter@reod.com.au www.reod.com.au

For further information on this fabulous property please review on the link here; http://sawtell.reod.com.au/19776355

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Bellingen Deep River Frontage 2 Houses, 14 Ha and Licensed Turf Farm 278 North Bank Road Bellingen, NSW, Australia

Dreams will come true for you and your family AUD $2,500,000 once you see this magnificent property.

(Approx: £1,410,000 or US$1,760,000) Overlooking the Bellinger River, and with soothing coastal breezes from both houses, is this gardened and manicured property that was once, and could be again,a turf farm with its license still active.

The main house is 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 powder rooms and a fantastic work from home office. This substantial home would not only make a fantastic family home, it would also be ideal for a couple with the upstairs area perfect for the extended family or friends or live in help. The master bedroom is substantial and north facing with a walk in robe for him and her as well as an ensuite.

The spacious kitchen will meet all your culinary desires and features a gas range with large oven, dishwasher, and opens to the sun-filled breakfast room.

The house has air-conditioning throughout for the warmer months, and the split level open plan living and dining room features a fireplace for winter.

To complete the main house, there is a second living area/games room/gym, which adjoins a solar heated indoor plunge pool and spa, alongside the substantial outdoor entertaining area with a built in BBQ & kitchenette, all with stunning views overlooking the magnificent Bellinger River.

There is also a double garage and carport with a covered walkway, paved to the front door.

The original verandah sided cottage at the other end

the driveway has 3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom and is in very good condition. It is weatherboard with a metal roof and a 10 kw solar array services both houses. There is a 5 bay machinery shed with concrete floor, a 5,000 gallon tank and a fantastic bore with absolutely pristine water.

The 35 mg licence out of Hyde’s creek for the turf farm has an on title easement from across the road if required. You could lease the turf farm or work it yourselves for another source of income. The registered pontoon is ready for you to tie up your fishing boat or to lower your crab traps. This property caters for just about everyone and by the way it’s flood free. An absolutely wonderful property that will suit you, your family and all your friends for a very long time.

Peter Stone

Managing Director 1 / 4 First Avenue Sawtell, NSW 2452 Australia Mobile: +61.413.111.621 Office TEL: +61.2.6658.4700 peter@reod.com.au. www.reod.com.au

Michael Ball

Licensed Real Estate Agent 1 / 4 First Avenue Sawtell, NSW 2452 Australia Mobile: +61.437.414.022 Office TEL: +61.2.6658.4700 michael@reod.com.au. www.reod.com.au

For further information please check out the website at: http://sawtell.reod.com.au/20087577

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World Class Apartment Living

3305/1 Courthouse Lane, Auckland City, New Zealand www.luxuryresidence.co.nz

This spectacular residence in the renowned Metropolis Building, New Zealand’s highest residential tower offers the best of all worlds. 2 hour flight from Queenstown, less than an hour ferry ride from Waiheke Island or simply stroll out your door into the vibrant Auckland city with theatres, art galleries and fine dining at your finger-tips.

NZ$5,000,000 (Approx: £2,694,000 or US$3,350,000)

The apartment itself has been completely remodelled (2018) to the highest specification. 3m ceiling height’s and full-length windows provide volume and an abundance of light. The scale and grandeur of this 3 bedroom, 2 bathroom home is complemented by the sweeping vistas – offering both beautiful a sunrise and striking sunset. Entertain with ease and flair in the designer spaces, bedecked in European appliances and technology. Ample accommodation offers versatility of use - whether as a home, consulting location or as a base for international business visitors the 203sqm (2200sqft) floorplan’s fits the quality on offer. Huge amounts of care and thought have gone into the planning of this re-fit, and the list of features will enthral those looking for ultimate comfort - with the added benefit of 2 carparks and pool and gymnasium facilities.

Close to the offerings of the city for entertainment, dining, transport and commerce – this apartment sees you in the middle of the action, 33 stories above in this iconic building. Arguably the best in the building your earliest inspection is encouraged – contact Ross to arrange your private viewing.

Ross Tierney

Licensee Salesperson Ray White Remuera Megan Jaffe Real Estate Limited Licensed (REAA 2008) 411 Remuera Road Remuera, Auckland 1050 New Zealand Mobile: +64.21.855.721 Email: ross.tierney@raywhite.com

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Auckland City Skyline featuring both the Sky and Metropolis towers.

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WELCOME TO AUCKLAND New Zealand’s largest city is an urban oasis – an exciting combination of vibrant city culture and stunning natural beauty

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the Auckland Harbour Bridge, is the southern hemisphere’s biggest pleasure boat marina, home to the Royal Yacht Squadron and current holder of the famed America’s Cup. America’s Cup racing is usually the domain of billionaires and elite professional yachtsmen, but every day adventure seekers can also get a taste of racing thrills by helping to crew a real ‘AmCup’ racing yacht. There are several departures each day from the Viaduct Harbour, no experience required.

Fairweather sailors may prefer a relaxing cruise on the magnificent Waitemata Harbour before dining in any one of the fine dining restaurants in the Viaduct and Wynyard quarters, renowned for superb seafood cuisine.

Start planning your trip to Auckland today.

To find out more visit: www.aucklandnz.com, www.franklincountry.com, www.newzealand.com For purchasing real estate in and around Auckland please talk to your local expert Ross Tierney from Ray White Remuera – Megan Jaffe Real Estate Limited Licensed (REAA 2008) on Mobile: +64.21.855.721 or email: ross. tierney@raywhite.com. Whether your looking for a premium apartment, luxury home, vineyard, lodge, or island escape Ross can help with all your Auckland real estate needs.

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pectacular land and seascapes, a gentle productive coastal climate, and cosmopolitan city life have all contributed to making Auckland one of the most desirable places in the world to live or visit, and it’s no wonder that this city regularly rates third on the annual Mercer scale of global lifestyle cities.

In or out of town, for locals and visitors, Auckland’s diverse landscapes provide the perfect background for an incredible range of experiences and activities whether that’s exploring stunning natural scenery, relaxing on the beach or adventuring on the sea, to appreciating other cultures, outstanding food and wine, great shopping and exciting nightlife.

Aucklanders are known for being friendly and welcoming with a sense of humour and a relaxed approach to life.

CITY LIFE For a birds’ eye introduction to Auckland, take in the spectacular 360-degree views of the city from the Sky Tower’s observation deck, 192 meters above ground. The Sky Tower is the tallest free-standing structure in the southern hemisphere and the 25th highest tower in the world.

AUCKLAND ON THE WATER In Auckland, you’re never far from the sea. Waiheke Island is referred to as the jewel of the Hauraki Gulf, and this haven of beautiful vineyards, olive groves, sparkling waters and beaches is all just a 35-minute ferry ride from downtown Auckland. A trip to Waiheke is a must for visitors and locals wanting to sample award-winning wines matched with fine dining or to immerse themselves in the laidback beauty of the island’s sheltered bays, sandy beaches, vine-covered hills and lush native forest. It’s also a popular destination for weddings, honeymoons and secluded getaways.

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RUCKINGE, NEAR ASHFORD, KENT

Nestling within the White Cliffs of Dover, a superb Edwardian house with glorious, uninterrupted views of the English Channel

A meticulously restored farmhouse with first class equestrian facilities within recognised commuting distance of London

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Available in two lots or as a whole.

Kidderminster 3.5 miles, Birmingham 16, London 128, M5 (J4) 10 (all mileages are approximate).

This incredible property is a complete gem, sitting discreetly in the North Worcestershire countryside within its ring-fenced farm estate. The 273 acres include woodland, arable, pasture and a deer park. There is a detached cottage, a three storey farm house (requiring renovation) and a range of agricultural buildings.

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Gloucester 8 miles, Tewkesbury 9, Cheltenham 13, London 109 (all mileages are approximate).

Ashleworth Manor is a substantial house of great historical importance. The excellent accommodation spans three floors, and includes a three bedroomed annexe. The property is situated within splendid gardens and grounds. Further land of around 7.942 acres including stabling and outbuildings is available as a whole or in separate lots.

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