Country & Town House - August 2017

THE BEST OF BOTH WORLDS

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FAST WOMEN

Why girls are in the driving seat

KING OF THE ROAD

LA-LA LAND

A wild weekend in Los Angeles

In the tracks of Bruce McLaren PLUS

WONDERFUL WATERSIDE PROPERTIES

ALL ABOARD! Set sail in a superyacht

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AN AN EXCEPTIONAL EXCEPTIONAL GEORGIAN GEORGIAN COUNTRY COUNTRY HOUSE HOUSE IN IN A A VILLAGE VILLAGE SETTING SETTING great great amwell, amwell, hertfordshire hertfordshire Grade II listed Georgian country house on the bank of the New River  4 receptions rooms  8 bedrooms  5 bathrooms Grade II listed Georgian country house on the bank of the New River  4 receptions rooms  8 bedrooms  5 bathrooms  designed by renowned architect Robert Mylne  set over 4 floors  mature gardens  tennis court  paddocks  EPC Exempt  designed by renowned architect Robert Mylne  set over 4 floors  mature gardens  tennis court  paddocks  EPC Exempt

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CONTENTS AUGUST 2017

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At the Start 22 24

THE GOOD LIFE Alice B-B has some out of this world experiences THE RURBANIST Racing driver Max Chilton

Up Front 27 28 30 32

IN A NUTSHELL Summer chic sorted SUNNY CLIMES Let’s go on holiday!

STYLE NOTES The logo is back THE TASTEMAKER Luxury with Lucia van der Post 34 THE EYES HAVE IT Sunglasses that seal the style deal 38 JET SET, GO What to pack if you’re holidaying like the A-list 40 THE GOLD DIGGER Jewellery news 42 MY BEAUTIFUL LIFE Founder of Goat, Jane Lewis 44 WELL GROOMED Men’s style

The Guide 52 54 56 58

THE DIARY Ballet under the stars and the power of plants ARTS AGENDA Festivals by the sea SEEDER’S DIGEST The Victorian garden is back THE BRIEF SHEET The lowdown on superyachts

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SET ADRIFT ON MEMORY BLISS Keep superyacht style simple and oh-so chic. Styling by Nicole Smallwood THE DASHING LORD Lord Pembroke recalls the day he was to inherit his title and the family seat, Wilton House, with Jeremy Taylor BACK IN THE SADDLE Charley Boorman is riding motorbikes again after a bad crash that nearly left him without his left leg, says Hugh Francis Anderson WOMEN IN THE DRIVING SEAT Why supercar marques are turning their attention to the fairer sex. By Vicki Butler-Henderson

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IF WALLS COULD TALK De Gournay’s magical menagerie RIVIERA REVIVAL South of France style DESIGN NOTES News, views and inspiration Q&A Superyacht interior designer Kate Maclaren of Winch Design

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CLUB TROPICANA When the Amanera landed on the Dominican Republic it gave the travel cognoscenti a superchic reason to visit the Carribean island, says Mary Lussiana IN THE TYRE TRACKS OF MCLAREN Jeremy Taylor takes an inviteonly road trip around New Zealand THE HOTEL WIZARD Fiona Duncan finds laidback luxe on Formentera THE WEEKENDER Los Angeles THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT Daisy Finer on the hotels and rentals that work for all the family, at home and abroad GASTRO GOSSIP Summer serves INSIDE SCOOP Alex Mackay’s raspberry ripple frozen yoghurt FORK & FIELD Anastasia Bernhardt finds passion at the heart of two new projects from Michael Caines and Vineet Bhatia

On The Move 115 116

PROPERTY OF THE MONTH SEASIDE SANCTUARIES Where to drop your property anchor 118 WHAT’S COOKING? Your kitchen says a thousand words 119 A PLACE IN COUNTRY OR TOWN Edinburgh and the Norfolk Broads 120 HOT PROPERTY The best houses for sale in town and country

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ON THE COVER Fashion direction by Nicole Smallwood.

Photography by Christine Kreiselmaier.

Makeup by Sophie Higginson using Chanel Les Indispensables de L’Été and Chanel Hydra Beauty Micro Crème. Lise Olsen @ IMG wears skirt by Chanel and top by Zimmermann

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EDITOR’S LETTER CONTRIBUTORS HIGH SOCIETY STOCKISTS

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EDITOR’S PICKS BUY For original wedding presents, visit Georg Jensen. The Cobra carafe would be on my wish list. £60. georg jensen.com

HIT The beach... but in Fulham. Open Weds to Sun until October. neverlandlondon.com

ven if your driving skills aren’t up to those of Fifth Gear presenter and all-round petrolhead, Vicki Butler-Henderson, it doesn’t mean you wouldn’t enjoy a racy little number.

And now, car marques are seriously catching on. No longer do you have to sacrifice Isofix attachments and somewhere accessible to put your clutch bag for sheer horsepower and a legs akimbo exit. The world’s greatest supercar brands, including Aston Martin, Ferrari, Maserati and McLaren, now have women at the forefront of their design process and Vicki for one is suitably impressed. Read her feature and see if she can persuade you to trade in the Chelsea tractor for something a little more dashing (p83).

I doubt racing driver Bruce McLaren paid much heed to the fairer sex’s driving prowess but Jeremy Taylor did get to follow in his tyre tracks as he joined a one-off, invitationonly trip to New Zealand.

Taking in both the North and South Islands, the stream of McLarens certainly proved a showstopper along the way, despite being restricted to a maximum of 62mph (and the New Zealand police are very, very strict). Read about his incredible journey on page 98.

Charley Boorman probably couldn’t give a damn about which four-wheeler he drives.

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The adventurer and Unicef ambassador is only interested in two wheels and it nearly cost him his left leg when he took a nasty tumble last year. But you can’t keep a brave man down, so he’s back in the saddle as Hugh Francis Anderson discovers, and plotting more derring-do (p78).

If you prefer to take to the open sea rather than the open road, a superyacht may be more your style. We profile the names to know, the marinas to sail to, the yachts to charter, the places to explore and, of course, what to wear on board.

Enter this esoteric world from page 58.

And who can forget it’s the summer holidays? Our travel pages are full of fabulous ideas of hotels and rentals that are perfect for all the family (p104); Sam Kinchin-Smith avoids the celebrity circuit in LA (p102), Fiona Duncan falls in love with Formentera, again (p100) and Mary Lussiana heads to the Dominican Republic (p95).

Wherever you’re going, whether by land, sea or air, have a great trip.

READ Charles Saatchi’s We are Bananas to see what a mad bunch we are, as if we didn’t already know. £16.99, Palazzo

WEAR Camilla Elphick’s Raise a Smile shoes. Just because you can. £395. camillaelphick.com

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Vicki ButlerHenderson The car I drive is... a Porsche Cayenne because it’s great at ferrying the family around while giving me joy at the wheel, but the car I want to drive is any form of racing car...

If you had to whisk me away in a private jet... take me to Mauritius. It was my honeymoon heaven.

The best thing about summer is… the long evenings with barbecues, family and fizz.

I feel the need for speed… to slow down sometimes! I need to immerse myself more in the little moments of life.

Christine Kreiselmaier The car I drive is... a white Fiat 500C with a red roof. The car I want to drive is a Jaguar E-Type Series 1, ideally in different colours to match my outfit.

If you had to whisk me away in a private jet... either take me to the Cheval Blanc Randheli in the Maldives (the location for the cover shoot) or to the Costa Amalfitana or Capri. Bella Italia all the way, really.

The best thing about summer is… gelato, sunshine and swimming pools accompanied by great company, a spritz and a good book.

I feel the need for speed… which is why I love the thought of sitting in my Jaguar E-Type, roof open, big sunglasses on, driving through Tuscany.

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If you had to whisk me away in a private jet... take me to Patagonia. I’d love to get lost there.

The best thing about summer is… warm drunken nights with good friends and better wine.

I feel the need for speed… I feel the need, the need for speed and more Top Gun quotes.

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The car I drive is... a silver mini because it’s nippy, robust and prized from an estate agent mid-recession; so reasonable, too.

But the car I want to drive is a Porsche 356B Cabriolet with punchy lipstick and driving gloves.

If you had to whisk me away in a private jet... take me to Alaska for vin chaud under the Northern Lights (with a duvet).

The best thing about summer is… tights hibernate/perish.

I feel the need for speed… on the slopes, on the water, in the saddle and atop the 295 bus when I’m running late.

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EDITOR Lucy Cleland EDITOR-AT-LARGE Alice B-B FASHION DIRECTOR Lucy Bond CONTRIBUTING FASHION EDITOR Nicole Smallwood FEATURES & FOOD EDITOR Anastasia Bernhardt LUXURY EDITOR Lucia van der Post JEWELLERY EDITOR Annabel Davidson BEAUTY EDITOR Nathalie Eleni PROPERTY EDITOR Graham Norwood LUXURY SALES DIRECTOR Maya Monro-Somerville PROPERTY MARKETING MANAGER Gemma Cowley RETAIL EDITOR Rosalyn Wikeley SALES EXECUTIVE Olivia Milligan CREATIVE DIRECTION & PRODUCTION Parm Bhamra PRODUCTION COORDINATOR Chloe Smith DIGITAL CONSULTANT Lucy Kirkness ONLINE EDITOR Rebecca Cox DIGITAL ASSISTANT Clementina Jackson IT MANAGER Mark Pearson CREDIT CONTROLLER Penny Burles OPERATIONS & ACCOUNTS MANAGER Millie Mountain ACCOUNTS CONTROLLER Jane Todd FINANCE DIRECTOR Jill Newey PUBLISHER Julia Carrick MANAGING DIRECTOR Jeremy Isaac CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Stephen Bayley, Simon de Burton, Sophie Dening, Fiona Duncan, Daisy Finer, Lydia Gard, Avril Groom, Richard Hopton, Emma Love, Mary Lussiana, Anna Pasternak, Caroline Phillips, Charlotte Metcalf, Marcus Scriven THE EDITOR editorial@countryandtownhouse.co.uk FASHION fashion@countryandtownhouse.co.uk ADVERTISING advertising@countryandtownhouse.co.uk PROPERTY ADVERTISING property@countryandtownhouse.co.uk ACCOUNTS accounts@countryandtownhouse.co.uk SUBSCRIPTIONS subscribe@countryandtownhouse.co.uk COUNTRY & TOWN HOUSE is a monthly magazine distributed to AB homes in Barnes, Battersea, Bayswater, Belgravia, Brook Green, Chelsea, Chiswick, Clapham, Coombe, Fulham, Holland Park, Kensington, Knightsbridge, Marylebone, Mayfair, Notting Hill, Pimlico, South Kensington, Wandsworth and Wimbledon, as well as being available from leading country and London estate agents. It is also on sale at selected WHSmith, Waitrose and Sainsbury’s stores and independent newsagents nationwide. It has an estimated readership of 150,000. It is available on subscription in the UK for £29.99 per annum.

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I’VE FALLEN IN LOVE. With a bag. And the reason for my new paramour is It takes guts to be on your A-Game, says Alice B-B that it’s the antithesis of the fast, flashy fashion bags I find so naff. Rag of Colts is different. ‘The straps on each bag are crafted from old and antique English bridle leather that I source from flea markets, tack room clear outs and racing yards. The buckles are vintage too; solid brass and always equestrian in origin,’ explains designer and maker Caroline Strecker. ‘Each bag is slightly different and unique in its own way, and all hand stitched by me!’ Rag of Colts is the antidote to tacky It-Bags; a new company using traditional craftsmanship and recycled materials ready to be loved and worn. Made from the tack of lovely nags, this is my kind of old bag.

I’VE HAD SOME MIND-BLOWING EXPERIENCES, thanks to my work as a travel writer. Night diving with manta rays, assisting an ornithologist in Bermuda saving the Cahow – one of the world’s rarest seabirds – and being kissed by wolves in Norway. But after my latest assignment – three days of cooking in the wild with chef Francis Mallmann on his private island in remote Patagonia – I’m almost ready to hang up my travel boots. If you’ve never watched Chef’s Table on Netflix – then put OU’LL HAVE TO KEEP YOUR this down and go and watch it. Only then can SAMPLE IN THE FRIDGE,’ says you begin to understand why this experience nutritional therapist Eve Kalinik, ‘so blew everything out of the water; how deeply you’d better warn Nick,’ You bet You inspiring it was to spend time with the chicest bet I’ll be flagging it with Mr Love. Because the of polymaths, a renaissance man in a modern sample in question is not what he’d hope to find as world who brings romance to every aspect he reaches for the milk first thing in the morning. of his life, adds art to his mise-en-scene, and I met Eve, a specialist in gut health, when she passion to his cooking. All this, while staying was the guest speaker at detox retreat Yeotown in his elegant, cosy cabin listening to classical in Devon. ‘We’re just starting to understand just music, laughing at filthy jokes or being moved how much the microbiome plays in our overall

by Russian poetry. Mallmann will be cooking wellbeing; not just digestion, but energy levels, at this year’s Krug Festival. Or if you want managing inflammation and even supporting our the real immersive deal, Francis takes paying mood.’ Instead of playing a guessing game with guests just a few times a year at his island supplements and food, Eve wants to collate a clear in Patagonia. It’s not cheap, but picture of my health including my underactive start saving up – cause it’s an thyroid, why I have a rash on my elbows and why experience that’s impossible I can sometimes feel flat or anxious. She wants to top. A burning memory that me back on my A-Game. And intends to get to glows in your soul forever. the bottom of it... literally. Because, my friends,

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MY LIFE

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The Rurbanist

Racing driver Max Chilton takes it down a gear in Cornwall

What is the next thing you’d like to buy for your house? All the fun boy things like a retractable hose and a lawnmower. I want to have a really organised garage, where everything has its own place.

Where do you escape to? I still go down to Cornwall with a big group of friends every year and moor the boat out at sea to listen to music.

The restaurants there are amazing, I go to Padstow or Nathan Outlaw’s.

What’s the best thing about Britain?

Where did you grow up? I grew up in or around Reigate in Surrey and I still live there today. I can be at Gatwick in ten minutes, or Heathrow in 30, which is handy for me because I travel so often.

What did your parents do? My mum was a receptionist at the InterContinental in London and later worked at an advertising company, while my dad was an insurance broker.

Most vivid childhood memory? We always spent our family holidays in Rock, Cornwall, so that’s where most of my best childhood memories are from. My parents used to tuck us up in the car late at night and drive the four hours down there while we were sleeping. We’d wake up early to build sandcastles on the beach.

What was your first job? I’ve never done anything but motorsports, so my first job was probably getting pocket money from my parents for cleaning their cars. I got into go-karting at a really young age – about 90 per cent of racing drivers begin with go-karting – and it all went from there. I’m now racing in America in IndyCar. What’s left to tick off your bucket list? I’m really

GREEN QUEEN Bristol is crowned the UK’s most environmentallyfriendly city

TROOPING YOUR COLOUR Sterling & Singh makes dressing for the polo a piece of cake

PUSHING OUR BUTTONS Forget warm cider, Henley Festival has Moët et Chandon vending machines

THE DOUBLE LIFER THE BEST IN COUNTRY & TOWN THIS MONTH

We’re pretty resilient. Though we’re going through a rocky patch now, we’ve shown we can pull together.

When I take off from Heathrow (which is usually at least once a week) it’s really noticeable how green it is – which is amazing given that it’s basically London.

Share a secret address in London... The Phene pub in Chelsea for drinks, Daphne’s for amazing Italian – that’s our anniversary place. Eccleston Square Hotel is really close to Victoria and only has a few rooms, but has a really nice feel to it.

Saturday night you’ll find me... Having dinner – I’m not into loud music and paying loads to sit in a dark club. I’m a bit of an old man really.

That’s why I like the pub! My working life is complicated, so I like to keep it simple at home.

Sunday morning means... Waking up with PUT ON THE BREAKS Swap HIIT for slowa few nerves, a warm-up and then a race. paced DeRose Method I get Sundays at home very rarely, maybe on Ramillies Place ten or so a year, so I spend these having a lie in. Recently, however, I’ve had to spend SCHOOL’S OUT The only guide you my rare Sundays off in church because of our need to survive upcoming wedding. summer holidays

What would you most like to be remembered as?

The fast racing driver from Reigate, who loved chocolate ice cream.

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into classic and supercars and I’ve also just bought my first home with my fiancé Chloe. She’s an artist, so she has got a really good eye for interior design; combined with my OCD I think we would make a good property development team.

What is your home like? It’s a new build in the centre of Reigate but it has been built sensitively to meet local standards. We’re making lots of changes to make it look older.

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IN A NUTSHELL THE SIMPLER THE BETTER THIS SUMMER, SAYS MARTHA WARD For all your summer needs, Asceno is your one-stop shop. If you want to swim, sleep, or just slink around – wherever you may be, whatever you’re doing, make it seem effortless. asceno.com

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Sunny Climes

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It’s time to lighten up, says Martha Ward

COUNTRY 1 MELISSA ODABASH Printed one piece, £214. odabash.com 2 JESS COLLETT Panama, £229. jesscollettmilliner.com 3 PIPPA HOLT Hand-embroidered cotton kaftan, £595. matchesfashion.com 4 RAE FEATHER Monogram patch shopper, £195. raefeather.com 5 DELRIO Riviera sandals, £180. mytheresa.com

TOWN 6 ZANZAN Sunglasses, £210. zanzan.co.uk 7 YOLKE Silk palm pyjama suit, £205. yolke.co.uk 8 GUANABANA Wayuu bag, £225. baarandbass.com 9 LISA MARIE FERNANDEZ Eyelet beach skirt, £555. browns fashion.com 10 ANCIENT GREEK Pearl sandals, £190. ancientgreeksandals.com

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CAVALLO EARRINGS, 18 CT GOLD Inspired by the Mediterranean

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NEWS MICRO TREND

GARDEN PARTY

LOGO LOVIN’

La Perla has put pop flower power into the heart of its pre-fall campaign fronted by model of the moment Kendall Jenner.

With its crystal embroidered slip dress with built-in padded bra, it certainly tears up the traditional English garden party sartorial rule book. laperla.com

LOEWE Lollipop tee, £250. loewe.com

GUCCI Cardi, £1,610. mytheresa.com Kendall Jenner is no shrinking violet for La Perla

Style Notebook

DIOR Flap bag, £2,300. dior.com

Rocking rentals and the logo’s back

SUPERYACHT HAIR SERVICE

Neptune, £150

WALKING GIRLS

THIS PICTURE: Dagda chiffon dress ABOVE: Tomasz Cociuba Cosmic Girl hat

What a great new concept, perfect for tricky occasion dressing: Wearthewalk.co.uk takes young designers who need the exposure and introduces them to fashion-forward consumers looking for originality. Shoppers can rent fantastic pieces such as Dagda’s chiffon dress (£50 for ten days) or a Tomasz Kociuba hat (£40 for ten days), and if they fall in love with them, no problem, they can upgrade to buying them.

TAKE THREE

CHIC FLAT WHITES 1 PENELOPE CHILVERS Boot, £269. penelopechilvers.com 2 VAGABOND Mules, £60. asos.com 3 LOUIS VUITTON Loafer, £465. louisvuitton.com

Rossano Ferretti’s cutting skills are sought the world over

Rossano Ferretti and his ‘Method’ haircut – dubbed the most expensive chop in the world – has fans including the Duchess of Cambridge and J-Law. Now, if you’re summering on the French Riviera, or at least floating past on your superyacht, you can call on his services – on land or sea – as he’s just opened at the Hôtel de Paris in MonteCarlo, putting new meaning into choppy waters. rossanoferretti.com

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UP FRONT

LUXURY

LUXURY IN BRIEF

The Tastemaker Lucia van der Post’s favourite things

JEANIUS IDEA

The semiotics of jeans are intricate and often quite baffling but one thing all are (mostly) agreed upon is this – they should fit and fit properly. Selfnation is a Swiss brand which has hit upon a brilliant way of giving every customer a bespoke jean at very reasonable prices. It has an online system that enables each customer not only to choose colour, waist design, placement of pockets and fit (slim, flared, ankle length and so on), but also give measurements (a video shows the customer exactly how to take their own measurements), all of which are then incorporated into the jeans. All for around £179 a time. Genius, we say. selfnation.co.uk

Build your dream jeans at Selfnation

PLATE SPINNING

August is picnic time and while I have long had a soft spot for the National Trust tin plates that sport designs copied from the grand old Staffordshire pottery company, this summer it is Marks & Spencer that has captured my patronage. It is selling some absolutely fabulous light melamine plates that look for all the world like old-fashioned blue and white china (£4 for dinner plate size, £3.50 for side plates). For purists who like things more austere, Lakeland has some beautiful ones in a stone-effect white with a thin silver border (£4.59 each). marksandspencer.com Solidteknics cookware

M&S's pretty blue and white melamine plates are perfect for picnics

CASE IN POINT This column isn’t usually one to be swayed by the shopping habits of the rich and famous but Meghan Markle’s Stow First Class Tech Case has got us thinking. It looks like a traditional leather case but it houses space for travel documents, a wallet, powerbank charger and cable, an international foldaway plug set and a powerful memory stick (£375). For an extra £6 there’s an extra adaptor pack available. Just the thing for those who need to work on the go. stowlondon.co.uk

IN THE SINK Just the thing to cheer up a less than spectacular loo are some wondrously colourful, patterned basins designed

by Anna Callis for the London Basin Company. Modern versions of Middle Eastern and oriental basins, they are all made of porcelain and there are some ten different designs – all glorious. From £620 each. londonbasincompany.com

WASTE NOT, WANT NOT

All those who hate the idea of waste and are tired of the incessant emphasis on the new, BuyMeOnce.com is well worth a trawl. Its basic idea is to promote the sort of enduring classics that we all love and will never ever tire of. So what you will find is a classic Tilley hat (£70), a beautiful black and white classic Turkish scarf (£35), Solidteknics cookware (from £99 for a tiny skillet) – you get the idea. It offers a wide range of everything, from kitchen and homeware to fashion, jewellery, accessories, health and beauty products. Nothing but the tried and tested passes muster here. buymeonce.com

TOP TIP Make-up artist of choice for many a great photographer and many a showbiz star, Attracta Courtney has a great tip for those wanting a bit more of a glow to their summer beauty routine. Take a tiny bit of Nivea Creme (£1.39 from Boots and much underrated in her view) and massage it into the cheeks. Result – instant radiance. attractabeautyawards.com

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STYLE Go for silver screensized shades, like Sophia Loren

LE SPECS The Prince, £65. net-a-porter.com

ELIZABETH & JAMES Henly, £185. net-a-porter.com

ILLESTEVA Leonard, £140. illesteva.com

TOM FORD Ondria aviators, £240. matchesfashion.com

VALENTINO Clear grey sunglasses, £235. sunglasshut.com

CHRISTOPHER KANE Butterfly, £335. christopherkane.com

KAREN WALKER Marques, £174. karenwalker.com

The Eyes Have It

OLIVER PEOPLES Alain Mikli, £212. oliverpeoples.com

SAINT LAURENT Jerry, £280. ysl.com

GUCCI Clear star, £645. shopbop.com

S

unglasses are tricky to prescribe, particularly if you suffer substandard eyesight, but also because everyone’s face shape, style and activities are different. Maybe you’re someone who needs a cat-eyed Fendi pair on board a yacht in Porto Montenegro, or some sturdy Ray-Bans for school runs/ski runs and the like, or perhaps you simply like a purple Linda Farrow to make a beige wardrobe pop. Whatever your reason, try and align your choice with your face shape and your wardrobe decibel. We have selected the best specs on the market, so go forth and prevent screw eye in style.

RAY-BAN Round with flat lenses, £143. ray-ban.com

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Pass me the shades, it’s hot out here, says Rosalyn Wikeley

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STYLE

SEE BRITISH

Brits are leading the charge on innovative eyewear. Here are the nine British sunglasses brands to see and be seen in this summer FINEST SEVEN Zero 13, £340. finestseven.com TOM DAVIES Amelia collection, from £295. tdtomdavies.com

FENDI Waves. £300. fendi.com

LINDA FARROW 567 C7 Oversized, £330. lindafarrow.co.uk

HOOK LDN Genesis, £125. hookldn.com

VOW LONDON Eve, £80. vowlondon.com

BLACK EYEWEAR Zoot, £197. blackeyewear.com

TAYLOR MORRIS Zero, £210. taylormorris eyewear.com

OLLIE & QUINN Roz, £98. olliequinn.co.uk

FINLAY & CO Arlington, £135. finlayandco.com

MONC Kreuzberg, £185. monclondon.com

MCQ Red Lens, £139. mcq.com

SPORTING HARES Wooden, £70. sportinghares.com

CUTLER & GROSS Northern Lights, £330. cutlerandgross.com

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STYLE

PRINGLE Oversized cashmere scarf, £450. pringlescotland.com

EMMY LONDON Saskia wedge, £395. emmylondon.com

LA PERLA Floral Rhapsody silk jumpsuit, £801. laperla.com

SKINADE Collagen drink travel sachets, £105. skinade.com

KATERINA MAKRIYIANNI Hand fan earrings, £125. farfetch.com

HEIDI KLEIN The go-to lifestyle label for all your holiday needs. heidiklein.com

DOLCE & GABBANA Silk kaftan, £2,150. net-a-porter.com

ST DUPONT Passport holder, £135. st-dupont.com/uk

Jet Set, Go

Whether it’s aboard a superyacht, on a private jet or in a vintage car with the top down, pack appropriately

VICTORIA, VICTORIA BECKHAM Crepe and silk crepe de chine tank, £265; trousers, £495. net-a-porter.com

FLORIS Bergamotto di Positano eau de toilette, from £60. florislondon.com

CARL FRIEDRIK Luggage tag, £30. carlfriedrik.com

CALVIN KLEIN Watch, £169. calvinklein.co.uk TABITHA SIMMONS Pearl sandal, £493. tabithasimmons.com

BAMFORD Travel kit, £60. bamford.co.uk

MOEVA Swimsuit, £310. farfetch.com

BULGARI Shelley scarf, £140 available exclusively at Selfridges until 6 August. bulgari.com

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JEWELLERY NEWS

The Gold Digger The latest jewellery news.

By Annabel Davidson

1 ETERNAL SUNSHINE

Piaget’s new high jewellery collection Sunlight Journey follows the path of the sun and all the moods it creates – from cool shadows to blazing sunsets. This Azzurro Bisazza necklace pitches sapphires, black opals and diamonds against an enormous 20.14 carat Ceylon sapphire to glorious effect. piaget.com

Azzurro Bisazza sapphire, opal and diamond high jewellery necklace, POA,

by Piaget

Trip the Light Fantastic fringe earrings in diamonds and white gold, POA, by Jessica McCormack

2 MATCH SET

Florentine Finish Matchstick pendants in 18kt gold, £1,450, by Carolina Bucci

I’m obsessed with these matchstick charms from Carolina Bucci’s new collection. They’re so simple, in various shades of gold – including an inky black – but Bucci’s scintillating ‘Florentine’ finish gives them major sparkle. carolinabucci.com

3 ON THE FRINGE

Diamond jeweller Jessica McCormack has a cult-like following for her merging of antique jewellery techniques with hyper modern designs. Her two new collections – Trip The Light Fantastic and Chi Chi – take totally disparate themes (movement and light for the former, ancient Chinese fortune telling for the latter) and translate them into heavenly pieces replete with fringing and articulated gold ‘sticks’ – and plenty of white diamonds, naturally. jessicamccormack.com

Love is in the Air earcuffs in rose gold and diamonds, POA,

by Stone Paris

4 FLOAT YOUR BOAT

Stone Paris’ new Love is in the Air collection sees diamonds set like floating bubbles in white, yellow, black and rose gold. Rings, ear climbers and pendants abound, but they’re all sweet and discreet.

The black gold ring would make a particularly chic alternative wedding band. stoneparis.com

5 DIAMOND DOG

London-based Brazilian designer Fernando Jorge has just won a major award for his new diamond collection Brilliant, and quite rightly so. The jeweller is known for his use of vibrantly coloured gemstones, but this time it’s all yellow gold and white diamonds, set in stunning branch-like structures. fernandojorge.co.uk

Brilliant earrings in yellow gold and white diamonds, POA, by Fernando Jorge

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BEAUTY

Every morning I use SkinCeutical Phloretin CF, SkinCeutical B5 serum, NeoStrata Matrix support SPF30 moisturiser, then just a lip balm and eye concealer.

In my make-up bag I always have Charlotte Tilbury’s The Retoucher Jane Lewis, founder of Goat, shares her beauty concealer and lip balm, which secrets with Nathalie Eleni I reapply throughout the day.

I wear Jo Malone Lime Blossom.

For my hair, I always go to Stephen Low at Neville Hair and Beauty in Knightsbridge for a cut. I’ve been seeing him for literally 20 years and he’s become a good friend.

To keep fit I do weights with my trainer Goat A/W’17 twice a week and pilates twice a week – one reformer session and one mat class.

My hero beauty product is Homéoplasmine, I love it and usually have a tube handy.

I’ve also become a fan of NIOD Copper Serum, which is very restorative for the skin.

My Beautiful Life

My best beauty advice is to

SUMMER LOVIN’ Bring the season into your beauty regime

1 JO MALONE IRIS & LADY MOORE SCENTED CANDLE For every candle

sold, 75 per cent of the retail price will go to their charity partners supporting people living with mental health disorders through the cultivation and care of therapeutic gardens. £46. jomalone.co.uk

keep your skin really clean and hydrated, maintain your eyebrows (I thread mine) and invest in shortcuts like eyelash extensions to avoid having to wear mascara.

ME TIME

B L O W

O U T

I B I Z A

2 SKINFIX MOISTURE BOOST SERUM A perfect skin treat after a day in the sun to plump and soothe. With rice protein, cucumber and aloe vera, it’s particularly good for sensitive skin. £19.99. boots.com 3 RODIAL BEE VENOM BODY SERUM Great to apply

to limbs before a night out to instantly plump and firm skin. £65. harrods.com 4 ARK HYDRATING BEAUTY MIST Packed with

hyaluronic acid and amino acids to hydrate and tone, keep this spray in your beach bag to hydrate and soothe your skin throughout the day. It also works brilliantly as a makeup refresher. £25. arkskincare.com 5 MANE ‘N TAIL HAIR DETANGLER Spritz onto

damp hair before a day on the beach or onto washed hair before you blow dry to keep soft and conditioned without any heaviness. From £2.67. manentail.com

If you’re travelling to the White Isle this summer, stay groomed and gorgeous with a visit to your hotel or villa from the island’s best kept beauty secret – Blow Out Ibiza.

Using premium brands – Bare Minerals, United Beauty and Cloud Nine to name a few – their team will tend to all your hair, make-up and beauty needs, so you can be yacht party ready after a windswept day at the beach. +34 666 423 424. blowoutibiza.com

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STYLE

ISLAND LIFE

HORSE POWER

Indigo Island is a unique and colourful shirt brand started by sisters Torty and Lulu, and inspired by the great reactions to the Indian handblocked shirts worn by Torty’s husband that were so admired on a European holiday.

Summery designs named after inspiring island locations have already garnered fans including Richard E Grant and Ronnie Wood. £75. indigoisland.co.uk

Luxury fragrance brand The Spirit of Dubai has just opened a London flagship in Knightsbridge, where you can discover their range of scents all inspired by Dubai. Abjar takes horseracing culture and mixes grapefruit and lavender with incense, leather and oud to powerful effect.

Addictive. £895 for 90ml. thespiritof dubai.com

SOCKS FOR SKIPPERS Pull your socks up and instantly command the respect of your crew with these natty numbers from Item M6, £19.50. item-m6.co.uk

Well Groomed Get your summer kit sorted, says Matt Thomas

EYES ON THE ROAD

LINKED IN Add some status to your cuffs with a racy sports car motif. These Deakin and Francis links are sure to add some va-va-voom. Ford GT black finish cufflinks, £150. deakin andfrancis.co.uk

Inspired by British motor racing in the inter-war years, EB Meyrowitz’s replica Brooklands goggles are made from the finest hand-stitched leathers married with chrome-plated bronze. A retro rarity. £995. ebmeyrowitz.co.uk

IN SAFE HANDS DECKED OUT Superyacht lifestyle calls for the appropriate footwear, so these Corneliani deck shoes are on-board brilliant. £225. corneliani.com

Give your trusty timepiece a thorough pressure and waterproofing test before embarking on your adventures. Luxury Watch Repairs has just introduced this great service from just £25. luxurywatchrepairs.com

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SOCIAL SCENE

Lucy Cleland and Vicki Butler-Henderson

Stephen Bayley

Claire Zambuni, Trevor Pickett, Carole and Sebastian Coe

Lulu Williams and Hugh Bonneville

Thomasina Miers

Jenny Halpern Prince and Marie Guerlain

Elizabeth Gage

HAPPY TENTH BIRTHDAY, C&TH!

Michael Bonser

High Society People, parties, places

Philippa and Grayson Perry Alice B-B and Martha Ward

Laura Bailey

Pearl Mackie Eric Underwood

Arizona Muse

Lucia van der Post

Rupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall

Phew... we made it... so we had to have a little shindig. The Rosewood hotel in Holborn was the perfect venue to host 300 of our closest friends, who downed endless bottles of Ruinart, feasted on sumptuous Rosewood canapés, enjoyed Elizabeth Marsh’s fabulous floral displays and were serenaded by the Welsh National Opera, no less. Guests then left with rather amazing goodie bags, even if we do say so ourselves, while hard partygoers retired Penelope Chilvers to Scarfes Bar.

SUMMER ARTS SET

Florence Welch

Daisy Lowe

The Royal Academy’s summer exhibition preview party is always a colourful affair, but it was hard to tell who stole this year’s show: renowned painter and Royal Academician Eileen Cooper, who coordinated this year’s exhibition, or Grayson Perry’s interpretation of the ‘otherworldly sublime’ dress code.

Alice Temperley

Simon Greatbatch and Teresa Levonian Cole

Anna Pasternak and Daisy Finer

PHOTOS: MARCUS DAWES; DARREN GERRISH

Avril Groom

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SOCIAL SCENE

MOVING IN TIME

Alice Black and Laurent Feniou

Time is of the essence in the world of aviation, and nobody knows that better than Cartier, whose founder Louis Cartier invented the first wristwatch for his pilot friend Alberto Santos-Dumont. Norman Foster weaves Cartier’s horological history with that of the aviation industry and other pioneers of his age in Cartier in Motion at the Design Museum, providing the perfect excuse to visit its new Kensington digs. Cyrille Vigneron treated guests from across the creative arts to an exclusive preview, ushered by handsomely dressed Cartier bellboys.

Cyrille Vigneron and Roksanda Ilincic Lady Kitty Spencer

Martha Hunt

Kim Hersov

Caroline Issa

Sandra Choi Mimi Xu, Roksanda Ilincic and Lara Bohinc

Norman Foster

TICKLED PINK

Lady Kate Bonas and Patrick Grant

It was clearly a sparkling night for the world of haute joaillerie – on the same evening that Cartier was delving into its esteemed past, Boodles had one eye on its glittering future with a new-look boutique. Lord March and Charlie Astor were among the well-heeled crowd that gathered to toast the reopening of Boodles’ Sloane Street shop in Knightsbridge.

In addition to its pretty in pink makeover (the work of architect Eva Jiřičná, who designed Somerset House’s West Wing), the boutique is now home to an in-store Patek Philippe shop. Go check it out yourself, you can’t miss its crisscrossed pink onyx façade. n

Charlie Astor and Lord March

Tessa Packard and Edward Taylor Nicholas and Michael Wainwright

Jasmine Hemsley

Annie Wainwright, Jessica Cummings and Piers Beckwith

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THE GUIDE ART · CULTURE · BOOKS · PEOPLE

FARMS NOT FACTORIES With the worrying rise of antibiotic resistance and the continuing cruel treatment of animals in factory farms, we’re in campaign mode this month alongside Vivienne Westwood and Dominic West. Farms not Factories aims to educate shoppers on the importance of high welfare meat, in particular pork. Don’t miss their new series of videos with leading chefs as part of its #TurnYourNoseUp campaign – you owe it to yourself and piggies everywhere to give them a watch. farmsnotfactories.org

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EVENTS

Country Life

Gregory Dean and Mara Galeazzi at Hatch House

Hix gets his Dorset fix

HORSE RACING WOAH, NELLIE!

Frankie Dettori at Goodwood

Glorious Goodwood returns to the South Downs for five-days of heart-thumping flat racing. Famously described by King Edward VII as a ‘garden party with racing tacked on’, this year’s Qatar Goodwood Festival promises to carry on in that spirit, whether you’re in it for a flutter or for the boozy lunch. 1–5 August. goodwood.com

Food Rocks Festival

BALLET

ALFRESCO ADAGE

The Covent Garden Dance Company returns to Hatch House in Wiltshire for an evening of world-class ballet performed in the 17th-century walled Dutch garden. Ballet Under the Stars has seen internationally acclaimed dances such as Carlos Acosta perform, and this year the standard remains as high as ever.

Lucia Lacarra – named Dancer of the Decade – will take to the stage with her husband Marlon Dino; a romantic set performed in an equally enchanting location. 21–23 July. coventgardendance.com

LITERATURE

WORD POWER

FOOD

While you’re in Edinburgh for the Fringe, make sure you add the Edinburgh International Book Festival to your itinerary. This year’s theme, Brave New Word, will tackle the big issues, from post-truth politics to rising fanaticism. Don’t miss Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Nicola Sturgeon discussing the role of women on the world stage. 12–28 August. edbookfest.co.uk.

ON THE ROCKS

Mark Hix will champion the producers on his doorstep at the Food Rocks Festival in Lyme Regis, from Black Cow cheese (who also produce the world’s only pure milk vodka) to Purbeck ice cream whose locally inspired flavours range from clotted cream to Dorset marmalade. Don’t miss demos from Angela Hartnett, Rose Prince and Russell Norman, or Hix’s Saturday night supper club. Proceeds will go to local charities. 19–20 August. hixrestaurants.co.uk Edinburgh Book Festival

HOTELS

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Duck herding at Ellenborough Park

It takes more than a chocolate on the pillow to appease discerning guests these days. At Ellenborough Park you can learn to herd ducks armed with no more than a trained border collie and four verbal commands (ellenboroughpark.com), while the Old Coastguard Hotel in Cornwall will take you aboard the Johanna Lucretia, a 1940s top sail schooner, for tea, cake and a pootle around Newlyn Harbour (12–18 August. oldcoastguardhotel.co.uk).

PHOTOS: SIGNE RODERIK

ADDED EXTRAS

THE GUIDE

Town Life

Bonhams celebrates nearly 100 years of the Rolls-Royce Phantom

Plant power and green boats

BALLET ON POINTE

Alina Cojocaru and Isaac Hernandez in Romeo and Juliet

Originally created to mark the Queen’s silver jubilee, Rudolf Nureyev’s awardwinning interpretation of Shakespeare’s star-crossed tragedy has been running for 40 years. The English National Ballet presents his creatively emotive choreography in a special anniversary edition of Romeo and Juliet at the Royal Festival Hall, set to Prokofiev’s supercharged score. 1–5 August. ballet.org.uk

MOTORING

MAGIC EIGHT

Used to chauffeur Churchill in WWII and to take The Beatles to Buckingham Palace to collect their honours, the Rolls-Royce Phantom has been the trusted vehicle for many of history’s defining moments. The marque presents eight of the most famous iterations from the model’s 92-year history at Bonhams, like Fred Astaire’s dazzling 1927 Phantom I. 29 July to 2 August. rolls-royce.com

ECO CRUISE

DAY OUT

There’s nothing quite like messing about on the river, now made all the easier thanks to the just-launched GoBoat, London’s only self-drive boat fleet based at Paddington’s Merchant Square, allowing punters to play captain and chart their own course through Paddington, Little Venice and Camden. They come to our shores from Copenhagen, boasting squeaky clean eco credentials, made from 80 per cent plastic bottles, with electric engines that don’t produce noise or environmental pollution. You can fit eight people around its on-board picnic table, so don’t forget to pack the Pimms. £49 for one hour. goboat.co.uk

Skyline sweating with Equinox

EXERCISE

HIT THE ROOF

Equinox elevates its refined approach to working out with a series of sessions at Mondrian London’s rooftop lounge Rumpus Room. This is for gym bunnies who are more likely to be found in a spin class on a Friday night than down the pub, with an early morning set from a DJ and sprawling views of London’s skyline. Next up a hardcore ‘Barre Burn’ led by Louisa Drake, an ex-dancer and choreographer.

5 Aug. mondrianlondon.com

PHOTOS: © BILL COOPER

PHOTOS: SIGNE RODERIK

FAMILIES

Canal cruising with a conscience

PLANT LIFE

The science behind plant life at Kew

There’s more to flowers than pretty petals, from fighting disease to maintaining healthy ecosystems. Over 200 scientists will come to the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew to reveal the secret science behind plant life at the Kew Science Festival, where you can extract DNA from a carrot, dissect plants or peer into microscopic gardens. As fascinating for grown-ups as it is for children. 4–6 August. kew.org August 2017 | COUNTRYANDTOWNHOUSE.CO.UK | 53

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Arts Agenda From dance to painting, a spotlight shines on Indian culture. By Caiti Grove

ARCHITECTURE AS ART This season celebrates architecture and the importance for beautiful, functional buildings.

1 SHELTER FOR IDEAS Edinburgh Arts Festival

Little bothies all over Scotland await tired explorers to take shelter. Artist Bobby Niven teamed up with architect Iain MacLeod to create a new generation of bothies with a serious design edge, where artists and writers can go offgrid and find inspiration in Scotland’s dramatic scenery.

For the Edinburgh Art Festival, Bobby has gone solo. Pig Rock Bothy incorporates his signature hand sculptures into this palm house that will act The V&A’s new wing as a temporary workshop, complete with a mud oven, for artists’ residencies, workshops and discussion. 27 July to 27 August. edinburghartfestival.com

Pig Rock Bothy at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

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GOLDEN GOOSE GROWS 2ART’S V&A expansion

Five minutes with...

BOBBY NIVEN THE ARTIST BEHIND SCOTLAND’S

2 Dulwich Picture Gallery’s new culture platform

The bothies I designed with Iain MacLeod in Scotland capture the excitement of travelling. One of them is called Sweeney’s Bothy on the island of Eigg. We got a lot of ribbing from locals when we first got there but we had great rapport with them after a while. We had to get a lot of help from them too – they advised when to build and where. We built it through the winter and only had five dry days in the five months of the build.

3 NEW SUMMER HOUSE Dulwich Picture Gallery’s new pavilion

Dulwich Picture Gallery is celebrating its 200th anniversary with a pavilion in the grounds for an experimental summer with different genres of culture. Talks, workshops, baby yoga, gigs and workshops for all ages and especially children is sure to open up the gallery to a new type of crowd. Throughout summer. dulwichpicturegallery.org.uk

Edinburgh Art Festival’s commissions programme is this year based around Patrick Geddes’ 1917 book The Making of the Future. Geddes proposed putting art at the centre of society and drawing people closer to nature.

He built the Johnston Terrace Wildlife Garden, which is where my work the Pig Rock Bothy will be sited.

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At first people find it frustrating that it takes an hour and a half to make a coffee, but the chance to slow down a wee bit is lovely. After a few days they find that waiting time valuable – it gives you time to digest ideas.

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OFF-GRID BOTHIES

PHOTOS: JOHNNY BARRINGTON; JOAKIM BOREN

Having just introduced ex-Labour MP Tristram Hunt as their new director, it appears ‘change’ is the watchword at the V&A. After years of planning and building work, the museum is to open its new £50m extension on Exhibition Road. Designed

by AL_A, a company led by Stirling prize-winning architect Amanda Levete, it will include a new 1,100 square metre underground gallery with a folded plate ceiling inspired by ornate Neoclassical museum design. Between each fold, light will shine through from the courtyard above and make a geometric pattern on the floor which changes as the day progresses. If only all architecture could be this romantic.

Opens July. vam.ac.uk

ARTS

FIVE OF THE BEST

FESTIVALS

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PREVIEW

La Bayadère at the Royal Opera House, London

The famous Mariinsky Ballet from Moscow is about to dazzle audiences with a new interpretation of La Bayadère at Covent Garden. In a departure from their usual classical work, this triumph of athleticism explores the fusion of Indian dance with the European tradition. Set in a mythical India this is a drama of love and redemption.

The heroine temple dancer Nikiya’s expressive dancing and her love for the dashing warrior Solor are touching in their simplicity whilst his solo rises to leaps of controlled artistry in a vital set piece Kingdom of the Shades. The corps de ballet is no less impressive and the entire event is supported by a splendid orchestra. For exoticism and romance in a contemporary work, it is hard to match this brilliantly colourful production. 10–12 August. roh.org.uk

1. WHITBY FOLK WEEK Musicians, dancers and ceilidh artists invade Whitby for its annual folk festival, an explosion of music and storytelling .

19–25 August. whitbyfolk.co.uk

2. SAND SCULPTURE FESTIVAL Sand statues carved on the seashore take ‘Topsy Turvy’ for a theme in this year’s unusual festival. Until the end of September. westonsandsculpture.co.uk

Ekaterina Kondaurova in La Bayadère

REVIEW

PHOTOS: NATASHARAZINA; © THE FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

PHOTOS: JOHNNY BARRINGTON; JOAKIM BOREN

Indian Art at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Rama returns in victory to Ayodhya, Pahari (c 1780-1790)

Pigeons feeding, Mughal, Kashmir (mid-17th century)

As an opening salvo to a year-long celebration of India and its historic links to Britain, Cambridge’s magnificently out-of-scale Palladian museum the Fitzwilliam Museum presents From Kabul to Kolkata: Highlights of Indian Painting, images from the royal Courts of India in the early modern period between the 16th and 17th centuries. After the Emperors of the Mughal ascendancy had swept all before them – warrior kings from the wilds of Asia, descendants of Genghis Khan and the ferocious Tamburlaine – they soon settled into a luxurious life in the languid courts of a more peaceful India. Keen to incorporate the beautiful – and sexy – gods of the Hindu culture into their newly founded art collections, these Muslim rulers had a sequence of delightful paintings commissioned. The dashing hero Vishnu, with a figure like a first division football player, courts the beautiful Radha in glorious glades of trees and flowers – and in other paintings they lie indoors in bed together, Vishnu’s wonderful torso and Radha’s lovely form on full display. The powerful kings also show a passion for animals and birds, so elephants are featured with almost comically human faces. A glorious exhibition and a great tease for the marvels of India to come later in the year. Until 3 September. fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk

3. TIREE MUSIC FESTIVAL Set on a tiny northerly island in the Inner Hebrides, Tiree Music Festival promises a balmy beach mentality with great music. 14–16 July. tireemusicfestival.co.uk

4. NEWLYN FISH FESTIVAL The sea is integral to Cornwall’s culture, so it’s only natural that Newlyn Fish Festival swims into view every year.

28 August. newlynfishfestival.org.uk 5. SEA CHANGE FESTIVAL This music festival is run by the Drift Record Shop in Totnes. St Mary’s 15th-century church, The Barrel House Ballroom and more will sing with the sound of indie bands, rock and acoustic guitar.

26–27 August. seachangefestival.co.uk

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THE GUIDE

GARDENING

ENGLISH COUNTRY GARDEN

Seeder’s Digest

Cut flower garden essentials SOPHIE ALLPORT Vegetable plant labels, £8. sophieallport.com

Garden design returns to the Victorian era GARDEN OF THE MONTH

SISSINGHURST CASTLE GARDEN, KENT

If the last few years have been all about the naturalistic look and minimal invention, prepare yourself for the arrival of the highly stylised Victorian bedding revival.

Take your lead from historic designers like William Andrews Nesfield, who popularised Renaissance parterres for a 19th century audience by ‘embroidering’ them – think elaborate box clipped patterns mixed with colourful plants – and gardens like English Heritage’s Witley Court in Worcestershire (below). We warn you now, this trend is high maintenance.

Vita Sackville-West often found herself ‘drunk on roses’. You only have to step a foot into the garden of her old home, Sissinghurst Castle, which she shared with her husband Harold Nicolson, and you will see why. When they first bought the Elizabethan palace, the flower beds were filled with rusty bed steads and old sardine tins but she transformed it into her own realisation of Sleeping Beauty’s castle. Today it’s home to over 200 varieties of rose, so get in a visit before their petals fall. nationaltrust.org.uk EXHIBITION

VISTAS OF VAST EXTENSION

The English have always been gardening mad and the Dukes of Buccleuch are no exception. The family seat, Boughton House in Northamptonshire, boasts a most exceptional garden. As they undertake an extensive restoration project, the house opens its archives on 460 years of gardening history, including a rather fetching pair of leather shoes worn by the pony that used to pull the lawnmower.

1–31 August. boughtonhouse.co.uk

HOXTON STREET MONSTER SUPPLIES Fang Floss, £3. monstersupplies.org

SOPHIE CONRAN Edible Flower Garden seed set, £10.99. burgonandball.com TROUVA Flower snip scissors, £8. trouva.com

THIS MONTH… IN THE FLOWER BEDS Pinch, cut back and dead head. Don’t be afraid to cut back hard with perennials. The Well-Tended Perennial Garden by Tracy DiSabato-Aust is a bible for the uninitiated as all plants vary.

TOP TIP Hot weather means thirsty plants and lots of watering.

Try to use greywater instead of the hosepipe to minimise your environmental impact. greywater action.org

HARVEST NOW Don’t allow the glut of fruit and vegetables to overripen on the vine. It’s better for the plant to pick and give spoils away, than to leave them hanging around till tough.

HAWS Brass mist sprayer, £12.99. haws.co.uk

ALSO HOME LTD Wooden trug, £30. alsohome.com

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TREND

VICTORIAN REVIVAL

NETHER WALLOP TRADING CO Flower press, £29.95. netherwalloptrading.uk

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S U P E RYAC H T S P EC I A L

THE BRIEF SHEET

How to navigate the glamorous, often enigmatic world of superyachts, from conception to ocean. By ROSALYN WIKELEY

TOP BUILDS

Who should you commission to make your superyacht dreams come true?

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1 Princess Yachts, British Based in Plymouth, Princess superyachts are some of the most innovative and technically advanced in the world with deep-V hulls that require less power and burn less fuel to achieve each boat’s maximum speed. Kings of ‘bespoke’, their beautifully proportioned yachts are drenched in personalised details such as floor-to-ceiling windows aside a dining room table. princessyachts.com

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Lürssen’s Kismet

Heesen is a company wired on innovation, pushing boundaries and breaking records. They’re not short of examples. In the 1980s, the ‘Octopussy’ became the fastest luxury yacht in the world with a speed of 53 knots and they are the authors of the Fast Displacement Hull Form, a revolutionary concept that improves overall efficiency by roughly 30 per cent. They are currently establishing bigger builds and their 70m multi-award winning Galactica Super Nova remains their current flagship and biggest build. heesenyachts.com

3 Lürssen, German This fourth generation family business is fuelled on Teutonic perfection and engineering prowess – over a third of their workforce are either engineers or naval architects. Lürssen works on superyachts, from 60m upwards, their value staying high even when sold on after a few years. The company USP? Discretion, a personal commitment of the family who owns it. luerssen-yachts.com 58 | COUNTRYANDTOWNHOUSE.CO.UK | August 2017

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BEST YACHT CHARTER BROKERS

WHERE SHALL WE GO?

Adventures to remember

Let these itineraries whet your aquatic appetite

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4 Camper & Nicholsons Founded in 1782 as a construction shipyard, Camper & Nicholsons soon developed a reputation for unrivalled expertise, market knowledge, design and build panache. It is their brokers’ understanding of the entire fleet as well as the in-depth insight of the various destinations that sets them apart. Legend is by far their most impressive yacht available for charter, equipped to pretty much go anywhere and do anything and has one of the only commercial helidecks in the charter industry, essential for taking guests heli-skiing. camperandnicholsons.com 5 Ocean Independence One of the fastest-growing companies in the luxury yachting sector, founded only a decade ago, Ocean Independence operates the largest crewed charter fleet in the world. Their team combines more years of marine expertise than any other brokerage company and offer yachts for every occasion, from corporate days at Monaco F1 Grand Prix to intimate weddings on remote, deserted islands. oceanindependence.com 6 Cecil Wright This boutique superyacht broker’s zest for chartering yachts is apparent in their extensive selection and inspired destinations, from wildlife in the Galapagos to the romance of Venice. A flexible approach allows clients to meticulously tailor and, even, alter their itinerary during their trip, with the company passionate about the adventure, culture or ‘just unadulterated fun’ to be had when chartering a yacht. cecilwright.com

adventure is what you’re after head to Norway for rugged peaks, icy turquoise seas and wildlife spotting – whales, eagles, arctic foxes and reindeer. Brave Norway’s colder months for the unforgettable Aurora Borealis, painting the sky from October to March. oceanindependence.com/ myfirstsuperyacht

11 Cecil Wright: Vibrant Cuba Where once yachts feared to tread, now you can visit Hemingway’s old home, cigar factories and abandoned beaches; enjoy snorkeling near the starfish beds near Playa Bonita and even viewing an open-air cabaret at Havana’s legendary nightclub ‘La Tropicana’. cecilwright.com

MAGNIFICENT MARINAS Where to dock your yacht

7 Port de St Tropez, France Saint Tropez is the first port of call for a reason.

With a capacity of 734 moorings, this is the place to moor in the Med if you want to be seen and possibly even heard. portsainttropez.com

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8 Marina di Porto Cervo, Sardinia Nestled in an elegant, perfectly sheltered harbour lies one of the Mediterranean’s best equipped ports, renowned for its efficiency and skilled service. marinadiportocervo.com

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9 Porto Montenegro, Montenegro ‘A superyacht marina of distinction’ indeed, Porto Montenegro offers guests and crew a full homeport solution against a stunning backdrop and one of the world’s most extraordinary cruising grounds. portomontenegro.com

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your watch word, step aboard the award-winning Askari and sail around some of the 118 islands of French Polynesia, enjoying first-class dining and spa experiences on the more sophisticated islands or taking a tender ashore to play Robinson Crusoe on a deserted beach. fraseryachts.com August 2017 | COUNTRYANDTOWNHOUSE.CO.UK | 59

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IN THE YACHT CLUB

If you’re not a member, you’re not coming in 13 One Ocean Club, Barcelona Offers members breathtaking views of the city and culinary delights served up in Francisco Díaz’s ‘beachy art deco’ interiors. oneoceanclub.es

14 Yacht Club de Monaco As old school as Saint Moritz, and almost definitely attracting the same set, a quarter of the world’s 100 largest superyachts are under the Yacht Club de Monaco’s burgee. yacht-club-monaco.mc

15 Porto Montenegro Yacht Club Although young (built in 2010), its intent is obvious: to oust the old guard. Welcome in the age of fitness centres, tennis courts, nightclubs and private dining spaces designed by the likes of Tino Zervudachi. portomontenegro.com

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Monaco-based yacht maker Dynamiq, Studio F.A. Porsche’s 35m GTT 115 Hybrid yacht mimics the body shape of their cars externally while internally boasts seven foot-high ceilings and Porsche furniture throughout. It will undoubtedly leave your heart racing. porsche-design.com 17 Mercedes-Benz Its Arrow460-Granturismo speedboat is a collaboration between new shipyard Silver Arrows Marine and Mercedes-Benz Style, and has set the industry ablaze, for the seven-figure-sum boat’s slick external design and compact ‘everything built in’ interior. silverarrowsmarine.com 18 Aston Martin The 37-foot Aston Martin AM37 powerboat made its world debut at the 2016 Monaco Yacht Show. Pooling the expertise behind cars such as One-77, Aston Martin Vulcan and the new DB11, their giddy automotive experience can now be enjoyed at sea. astonmartin.com

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TOYS, TOYS, TOYS

SAILING STYLE

It’s playtime

The brands to pack

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25 Orlebar Brown 19 Iguana Yachts Need to feel terra firma? No problem.

The Iguana is the world’s first amphibious tender that will take to the land as effortlessly as it does to the water and it’s got Bond film good looks to boot. iguana-yachts.com

The ideal all-round lifestyle brand for any yacht dweller; comfortable, stylish and constructed for ocean life. orlebarbrown.com

20 Inflatable slides And weeeeeeee! superyachttendersandtoys.com

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21 Deepflight Dragon On the sea is over-rated. You want to be under it, right? Hop in your own personal submarine, the DeepFlight Dragon, and cruise along sharks and shipwrecks. deepflight.com/dragon

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WHAT’S NEW? Best superyacht launches

26 Tumi Luggage that is both practical and polished to see you on board in style. uk.tumi.com

22 Aurora by Lürssen and Winch Design This 74m Art Deco-inspired beauty was styled inside and out by Winch Designs.

It includes a full-beam skylounge, luxurious bedroom suites and mahogany detailing. luerssen-yachts.com; winchdesign.com

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23 Superyacht A by Philippe Starck Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko has been spotted aboard his new £360m toy, dubbed the world’s most futuristic superyacht for its slick, metallic exterior, garages and a glass hall. nobiskrug.com 24 Quintessentially One Concierge company, Quintessentially is busy developing a floating private members’ club, which will dock to enjoy some of the world’s finest events from the Monaco Grand Prix to Rio Festival. quintessentiallyone.com

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The choice of James Bond aboard his boat, it’s hard not to look debonair in this British brand. Sunspel has been dressing yacht owners for well over a century. sunspel.com n

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Yellow dress, Preen by Thornton Bregazzi. White bikini (seen underneath), Melissa Odabash

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SET ADRIFT ON MEMORY BLISS Set sail into the sunset in suitable on-board style Fashion editor NICOLE SMALLWOOD Photography CHRISTINE KREISELMAIER

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Jumper, Burberry. Bikini bottoms, Heidi Klein

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Jacket and trousers, Boss.

Bikini top, Heidi Klein

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Dress, Lanvin.

Swimsuit, Melissa Odabash. Sunglasses, Stella McCartney

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Jumper, MaxMara.

Shorts, Isabel Marant (matchesfashion.com).

Sunglasses, Finlay & Co

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Bikini, Jonathan Simkhai.

Sunglasses, Finlay & Co

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Top, Versace. Bikini bottoms, Evarae.

Belt, Stella McCartney

LOCATION With huge thanks to Cheval Blanc Randheli, where you can stay in a water villa from $1,800 (approx £1,550) per night, based on double occupancy, including breakfast. randheli.chevalblanc.com TEAM Hair: Sophie Higginson using Kerastase stylist range Make-up: Sophie Higginson using CHANEL Les Indispensables de L’Été and CHANEL Hydra Beauty Micro Crème Model: Lise Olsen @ IMG STOCKISTS: PAGE 94

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For this month’s cover shoot, the team flew to the Maldives and kicked back in style at Cheval Blanc Randheli THE RESORT: After travelling the globe looking for the ultimate destination for our yachting shoot this issue, Cheval Blanc Randheli in the Maldives surpassed expectations. This elegant resort, developed

by LVMH and designed by Jean-Michel Gathy, has really raised the benchmark, making it one of the best hotels in the world.

A short 40-minute private sea plane from mainland Malé transports you to the unspoilt Noonu Atoll and what can only be described as one of the most stunning locations we’ve had the pleasure of working at.

Turquoise-fringed white sands surround the six small islands in the lagoon that make up Cheval Blanc Randheli. It’s the perfect romantic holiday destination and a pretty spectacular backdrop for the cover shoot.

Getting around the six small islands is easy by bicycle (or buggy) or you can take a short boat ride. Each island has its own specialty function; from the tennis and boot camp island and Guerlain spa island to the owner’s villa island, which you can hire exclusively and has a four-bedroom villa, its own spa and a 25-metre pool.

The islands offer 45 villas, some over water with the reef right at your back door and others lining the beach, with each one enjoying its own pool, stretching the full width of the villa.

Hammocks, sun loungers and day beds adorn the decking, and there are sunken seating

Biking about

Sumptuous interiors

areas for room service dining.

When you arrive at your villa and the huge wooden double doors open, you’ll be stunned by its sleek modern décor and beautiful thatched roof.

The aroma of candles of Island Chic created by François Demachy, the nose of Christian Dior, lingers around every corner. Swivelling oak panels divide sections of the room, with the rest being controlled by an iPad panel that literally does anything you ask.

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The villas are furnished with materials from the Indian Ocean: teak, rattan, bamboo and coconut shell, set against a colour palette of white, taupe and oyster grey and accents of bright yellow.

Each comes with its own butler, who attends to your every need, unpacking, ironing and organising excursions such as diving. They will even run a bath for you for when you return from dinner, complete with frangipani flowers.

Behind the scenes

THE SPA: Your journey begins as you sail to the idyllic Spa Island aboard a local dhoni. Designed to cater to your every need, Guerlain has created a bespoke treatment menu exclusively for the hotel. Choose from a signature facial, a treatment day or a bespoke package for the duration of your stay. With treatment rooms set between the palm trees all your senses will be treated at once. There’s also a hammam and you can book private yoga or mediation classes too.

THE ACTION: Pretty much anything can be arranged whether it is a family day trip to a private movie screening of your favourite film under the stars, or private dining on deserted beaches, boats trips and picnics... the possibilities are endless.

Visit the Tennis Island for lessons taught by professionals on two courts built to Australian Open standards or, if diving’s your passion, you can snorkel

right from your door (from some villas) or head out into the deep with scuba equipment to look for spinner dolphins, sharks and huge rays.

Take a trip on the resort’s 30m yacht Azimut, which stars in our fashion story. Taking up to ten guests at a time, it comes with an open-deck Jacuzzi.

THE DINING: The resort has five restaurants to choose from, from fine French dining at Le 1974 to Maldivian and Indian cuisine at The White, with seating on the beach among the palm trees and live music. There’s also Mediterranean and local seafood, such as langoustine prosecco risotto at Deelani or Japanese and Southeast Asian cuisine at Diptyque (don’t miss the rock shrimp tempura).

Private pools

A Water Villa costs from $1,800 (approx. £1,550) per night, based on double occupancy, including breakfast. +960 656 1515; randheli.chevalblanc.com

WHAT TO PACK 1 This pale yellow Kalita dress would look lovely on bronzed skin, £675. matchesfashion.com 2 Add your initials to this Lands’ End bag for £3.50. £50. landsend.co.uk 3 A great hook up, Zimmermann x Cutler and Gross sunnies, £310. 020 7952 2710 4 Perfect for going from beach to bar, Paolita’s Khan playsuit, £160. harveynichols.com 5 We love the pompom detail of Sophie Anderson’s design for Heidi Klein, £240. avenue32.com 6 These Brother Vellies sandals are hand woven, £255. net-a-porter.com 7 The best protection you can get, working with your skin, not against it. Institut Esthederm’s Adaptasun spray, £39. spacenk.com

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Lord Pembroke at home at Wilton House, which was most recently seen in Netflix sensation The Crown

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THE DASHING LORD

What really happens when you inherit a country estate and a small fortune to go with it? Lord Pembroke remembers the moment with JEREMY TAYLOR

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aking a new girlfriend back to meet the parents can be awkward – especially if she doesn’t know the family home is one of Britain’s most spectacular country estates and your father is the 17th Earl of Pembroke.

‘I studied at Leeds University and people just called me Will Herbert. I didn’t want everyone to know that I was Little Lord Fauntleroy, with a 14,000-acre estate in Wiltshire and all the trimmings,’ recalls Lord Pembroke.

‘When we arrived at the gates of Wilton House, my girlfriend went very quiet. Later, she mistakenly sent me a text intended for one of her girlfriends. It read “OMG! He lives in a stately home!” Things fell apart after that.’

After leaving Bryanston School, Lord Pembroke completed a foundation course in 3D computer graphics at Leeds. He then graduated with a first-class honours degree in industrial design from Sheffield University. ‘I played computer games like every other teenager but I’d found my calling with design and I was good at it. After Sheffield, I got a job with Sebastian Conran in London and loved every minute.’

By his early twenties, the future 18th Earl was already one of Britain’s most eligible bachelors, first in line to inherit an estimated £115m fortune but hardly spoken of in the gossip columns. ‘The problem with that situation is trying to keep a focus and pursuing a career path of your own. I really loved growing up at Wilton House but my priority was design – I had absolutely no interest in farming or the countryside.’

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Lord Pembroke’s father was Henry Herbert, the film and television director famous for 1976 coming-of-age movie, Emily. The soft porn film starred Koo Stark, who would later date Prince Andrew before he married Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York.

‘Dad had been sick with cancer but I still didn’t imagine I would take over from him until many years later. He was only 64 when he died in 2003. I was still young and had absolutely no idea or training for the role that was expected of me.’

On paper, the new Lord Pembroke had plenty to look forward to. Apart from a mention on the Sunday Times Rich List, the state rooms at Wilton House were originally designed

by Inigo Jones and included £250m of art by Rubens, Rembrandt and Van Dyck.

However, the 18th Earl had a more pressing problem. He was 25, unmarried and without an heir. ‘That was another pressure I had to deal with. My life suddenly changed overnight and I was forced to leave the job I loved to take on a new challenge.’

There was help at hand, however, from his stepfather, the businessman Stuart Wyndham Murray Threipland. Together

FROM TOP: Lord Pembroke is rather keen on his supercar collection and, until this year, hosted the Wilton Classic and Supercar Show

they have overseen a growth in the affairs of the 16thcentury estate for the first time in centuries.

‘Like many country estates with high running costs, we have had to diversify.

But instead of selling land and property to keep going, we are now in the position to expand,’ says Lord Pembroke, now 38.

Wilton House has also been commissioned as a film set, used as a backdrop for screen dramas like The Crown – the stately interior doubles for Buckingham Palace – The Young Victoria and Johnny English Reborn.

Lord Pembroke then incorporated his passion for cars into the family business, establishing the Wilton Classic and Supercar show in 2009. Lord Pembroke has been tight-lipped about the reasons why this summer’s show has been cancelled but his passion for motoring remains undiminished.

The coach house at Wilton House is loaded with a 200mph Bugatti Veyron, a classic E-Type Jaguar and a rare Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione.

‘I find it very easy to buy cars but much harder to sell them,’ he says.

Admittedly, Lord Pembroke did sell a couple of his late father’s paintings by David Hockney for a down payment on the £1m Bugatti. ‘There is just no room in the house for modern art and I decided to let them go. The money didn’t cover the full cost – I must have been the only Veyron owner to buy the car on a contract!’

In 2010, Lord Pembroke sealed another important contract when he married Scottish heiress Victoria Bullough. The couple met four years earlier via a mutual friend in London.

‘We were actually introduced on the dance floor of a nightclub on the King’s Road. I think it was set up but I was very lucky to meet her.’

The couple now have four children and continue the family tradition of living at Wilton House, with a flat in London. ‘When I was a child, my bedroom was in one of the towers.

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Lord Pembroke did sell a couple of his late father’s paintings by David Hockney for a down payment on the £1m Bugatti, even though the money ‘didn’t cover the full cost’

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BACK IN THE SADDLE

After a shocking motorbike accident almost left him without a leg, Charley Boorman is now back and raring to go, says HUGH FRANCIS ANDERSON

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n 2004, Charley Boorman embarked on his round-theworld motorcycle journey with best friend Ewan McGregor. Since then he has firmly established himself as an advocate for the petrol-fuelled world of adventure travel. From competing in the world’s most dangerous motor race to crossing FROM TOP: Charley and Ewan McGregor, some of its most treacherous who met on a film set when they were younger; Charley and his family; an X-ray borders, Charley has done of Charley’s smashed left leg it all. But, in February last year, he was involved in a motorcycle accident while in Portugal for the launch of the Triumph Tiger Explorer, so severely that he almost lost his left leg.

But now, only 18 months later, Charley is back in the saddle, pursuing adventure with more enthusiasm than ever before.

I meet Charley at his family home in Barnes, where his elderly spaniel greets me with a wagging tail and a few licks.

‘This is Ziggy,’ Charley says with a wide smile, welcoming me in. A year and a half on from his horrific crash, Charley’s light limp is a welcome sight.

‘The crash was savage,’ he says, slumping onto the sofa, ‘I’ve been riding for 40 years, and I’ve broken loads of bones in the past, especially riding off road on dirt bikes and enduro bikes, where that’s just part of the cycle,’ he says nonchalantly, ‘but this was just brutal, the left leg

was really badly broken, the tibia and fibula were smashed to pieces and even came out of my leg.’

Charley reaches for his phone and shows me the X-rays, which are every bit as gruesome as his description.

‘I remember trying to stand up and it was just this big floppy thing,’ he says gesticulating wildly.

But, in true Boorman fashion, it didn’t take him long to get back on two wheels. ‘I’ve been riding for a little while now, I was on my wife’s moped for a long time, and it was great because I could get the cage supporting my leg in the foot well, which, of course, I couldn’t get on a normal bike,’ he laughs.

The son of famed filmmaker John Boorman, renowned for movies such as Deliverance and Point Blank, Charley spent much of his younger years in County Wicklow, Ireland, when not travelling with his father. It was here that his thirst for the outdoors originated. ‘My dad was quite into horses, so we had

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Charley in The Dakar Rally

we were out, we could just breathe. It took a good few weeks to get into the journey, the moment you’re out of Europe and getting further east, it all starts to kick off. And then it’s something new every day.’

Charley’s next TV programme, Race to Dakar, documented his participation in the Dakar Rally, one of the world’s toughest endurance motoring races.

Severely breaking his hands when he crashed in the Sahara desert, Charley was forced to retire after just five days, but stayed with the team to help and support his fellow teammate, Simon Pavey, to the finish line.

‘It was really hard work,’ says Charley, ‘but by breaking my hands, and then staying and filming what was going on in the back end, I got a much better perspective on everything.’ Would he tackle it again?

‘I loved doing it, and I’d love another opportunity to do it again. I’m a much better rider now and more confident.’

After such incredible adventures, I wonder what Charley likes most about riding motorcycles. ‘I like the freedom of it. You have to drive a car, but you choose to ride a motorbike. I love the fact that when you travel somewhere, the experience is completely different. When you arrive somewhere and you’re all dusty, you’re part of the environment, so there’s an immediate connection. When you’re in a vehicle, people step out of their environment and into yours, so you’re disconnected, I like the immediateness of riding a motorbike.’

After Race to Dakar, Charley went on to film The Long Way Down, in which he rode from John O’Groats to Cape Agulhas, the southernmost tip of Africa, once again with Ewan. The Long Way Round, The Long Way Down... is there ever going to be The Long Way Up? ‘There has been talk of it, and Ewan and I like the idea of doing it when we’re older so we can be two grumpy old men reminiscing on how it was back in “our” day,’ he chuckles. ‘The obvious spot would be South America, from the southern tip up, that would be incredible, and maybe we could finish in LA with a huge ride out.’

Alongside his adventuring exploits, Charley is a busy man.

He spends his time working with UNICEF, a partnership first explored during The Long Way Round, as well as Dyslexia Action, due to his own severe dyslexia. He has written a new book, Long Way Back, which is part autobiography, part recovery story from the crash in Portugal. He also runs motorcycle tours through Africa. ‘It’s really important to me, and I love introducing people to Africa,’ he says. ‘Most people don’t remember that Africa is a continent not a country, so the idea is to get people down there.’

So what’s next? ‘I’m doing a lot of work for Triumph at the moment, and there are some big plans for the next couple of years. I need to be busy now as I lost all of last year, and the year before I was prepping for a TV show, which I had to stop because of breaking my leg, so I’m itching to get out now.’

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‘I realised with a bike you didn’t have to muck it out or brush it down, you could abuse it, then lean it against a wall and head home’ a few, and as we lived in the middle of nowhere, I used to do quite a lot of riding and hunting,’ he reminisces. ‘What I loved about hunting was that you never knew where you were going, and if there was suddenly a fence or a hedge, you’d be over it; it was so exciting.’

So when did motorcycles come into the picture? ‘I must have only been about ten, and I went around a field on a Maico 400 owned by a guy who lived in the village. Unable to touch the pegs, I promptly fell off, and that was it.’ In a household of horse riders, and with five sisters, it must have been an interesting transition from horseback to motorcycles. ‘I realised that with a bike you didn’t have to muck it out, brush it down, clean the tack, etc, you could just abuse it, then lean it against a wall and head home,’ he says. ‘I used to head off into the Wicklow Mountains with a friend, strap some petrol in a jerry can to the back of the bike, ride until I ran out of fuel, fill it up and head back home. It was brilliant.’

Which no doubt, years later, led him to The Long Way Round, a motorbike trip from London to New York, with Ewan McGregor. ‘Ewan and I met a long time ago on a film, and we both loved bikes, we did track days together and helped run a team,’ says Charley. ‘We then did weekend rides, but always looked to go further and further. We first wanted to ride to the south of Spain, then to China. Ewan rang me up and said, “If we go to China, we may as well cross the Bering Strait and ride over to New York,” and it went from there.’

The journey, which covered some 20,000 miles, across 12 countries in 115 days, was an enormous feat to undertake, and one that must have come with many difficulties. ‘I remember putting all my gear on and saying goodbye to everyone, and the temperature just getting hotter and hotter. You think you’ll never get out of London, let alone survive the trip,’ he says with a grin, ‘But, once 80 | COUNTRYANDTOWNHOUSE.CO.UK | August 2017

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ABOVE: Charley and his dad, the film director John Boorman RIGHT: A taste of the fast life

ABOVE: Charley with his beloved bikes BELOW: Charley on the road to Anchorage in Alaska

Charley’s leg cage

ABOVE: Charley with his sister Daisy and a Yamaha DT100 RIGHT: Charley leading a ride through Australia

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ABOVE & BELOW: Vicki and the Aston Martin DB11, which she describes as ‘automotive haute couture’

up of women who run their own businesses, are independently wealthy and many of whom are mums, too,’ he continues.

‘Women are involved in the car design as well, with a female running the team responsible for the interior of our latest car, the DB11. We notice that women customers pay much closer attention to choosing the colour and material combinations for the interior of their cars, much more so than men who don’t want confusion or to be hassled with choice. We have really taken personalisation on board and can colour-match the exact shade of your favourite shoe if desired.’

Attention to detail. Lovely. And it’s nuances like these that sportscar makers are focusing on, rather than going all out to create a car specifically designed for women. Because, really, who’d want a car that had been designed solely for a woman? Remember the backlash when BIC brought out a pink pen for women? Yes, previously we’d had to ask men to write words for us...

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wo of the most expensive things we can ever buy are cars and houses. Two of the most emotional investments we can ever make also happen to be cars and houses. We can fall in love with high ceilings and bay windows just as much as we can be left breathless by a car’s design – the glimpse of a Porsche 911’s rear-end as it slips onto the King’s Road, or the profile of a Rolls-Royce Phantom gliding away from a country-house hotel.

Jenni Murray on BBC Radio Four’s Woman’s Hour once asked me how I, or anyone, could be so passionate about a metal box on wheels. Well, cars can be beautiful and exciting and they have bewitched me since I started racing at the age of 12. Driving a car sideways at high speed and to the point where it looks like it’s out of control – as I sit behind the wheel, fully in control – is my one talent and it gives me unfiltered joy.

But cars don’t have to be on the ragged edge of noise and adhesion for us to love them – in the same way that a box made of bricks and mortar doesn’t have to move for us to adore it.

Car manufacturers understand this and know that tapping into these human responses will result in sales. And with 60 per cent of new cars in the UK being bought by women in the UK, and more on the say-so of women, it’s clear who is really in the driving seat. Certain markets have already taken note.

‘Sportscar makers have ignored the important female market for the last five to ten years. And that’s unacceptable,’ says Marek Reichman, Chief Creative Officer at Aston Martin – the British-based makers of luxury sportscars are one of the most recognised brands in the world. It has been adorning our roads, bedroom walls and James Bond, with glorious machines for over 100 years. ‘Today we have a female advisory board made

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When I went on my first car launch as a motoring journalist back in the early 1990s, I was asked by an old-school male hack if I was there ‘to check out where to put a handbag’.

His answer came as I lapped him on the racing circuit but, for every handbag hook that might be needed, so will a place to wedge a wallet. Nobody can conceive a car exclusively for ladies because, just like men, we need a steering wheel, seat, engine and all the rest.

‘There’s no need to pink it and shrink it,’ says Marek Reichman. ‘And neither do you have to be a 1950s Formula One driver either. Cars today have electronic aids so you don’t need to be a brute to drive them.’ Incidentally, the pink Aston Martins usually go to the guys in Qatar.

Marek’s most recently penned machine to hit the road is the DB11. It is one of the most exquisite pieces of metal I have ever seen – automotive haute couture. It’s also the first car I’ve ever driven that has continuously been waved out of side roads by other drivers wanting a better look.

For women drivers there have been some thoughtfully considered design enrichments – the steering wheel has been subtly shaped

ABOVE & BELOW: Ferrari’s California model is one of its most popular among women

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‘Back in the 1990s, I was asked by an old-school male hack if I was there to “check out where to put a handbag”.

His answer came as I lapped him on the racing circuit’

The McLaren 570GT has skywards opening doors and an interior to die for

for a smaller hand (though you’d never feel that unless you were told), the seat adjusts for a wide range of heights to now include women in the 50th percentile (5ft 3in) and there’s a large storage box between the front seats for women to put a clutch bag – a direct request from Aston’s female advisory board wanting their handbags closer than in a glove box. Two childfriendly ISOFIX-ready rear seats make it refreshingly practical, too.

Aston Martin is also strongly aware that the spotlight shouldn’t just be on a car when it comes to appealing to women – it should also be on the welcome women are given in a showroom and the language that’s used once they’re there. Men commonly want to know power and torque figures – as do women – but they also want to talk about residual values and the environmental impact of the car they are considering. Women are doing a lot more research now and arming themselves with knowledge way before entering a showroom. Dealers, take note.

One of Ferrari’s most popular models for female owners is the convertible California, though it is not targeted solely in their direction.

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The Maserati Levante is a supremely female-friendly SUV which is great both on and off road

The gap between the perception and the reality of being able it is specifically designed for them,’ a company spokesman said. to drive such a striking car is something McLaren works hard to ‘We produce cars that are easier to live with and easier to drive reduce, while elevating the ownership of supercars to the top of the every day, and that is perhaps why more women are buying our list of what women want to spend their money on. ‘Once women drive cars, because they have to make fewer compromises in terms the 570GT, most find it easier to drive than a family car. They are of driving than with some of our older models.’ reassured that the car will pootle about town and that it can open That’s spot-on. The California, again with a pair of child seats up on the road or at one of our McLaren track days, too,’ Donna adds. in the back, is another everyday sportscar that’s a viable option Italian sportscar manufacturer Maserati has launched its first ever for the school run. With the roof down, it’s as easy to parallel SUV (sports utility vehicle) – the Levante – and it is the most femalepark as a saloon car and for some, more manoeuvrable and oriented car on these pages. Although it only takes that title by default manageable than a whacking great off-roader. really, because there’s no better place to see a pack of SUVs than If you want an even more exotic machine though, then the outside the school gate, and that itself is the inevitable Mecca for mums.

McLaren 570GT has your name on it. With doors that open skywards Maserati’s Trident badge definitely brings a sophisticated aura and an interior from the future, it is an event on four wheels. to the mundanity of the daily drop-off, and while And after just a minute behind the wheel, you’ll never other parents will admire your brand choice, inside need a vitamin injection again.

THE GEEKY it you can be pampered by the cabin’s tailored While it looks as exquisite as a Louboutin stiletto, STUFF Ermenegildo Zegna silk, made in Trivero by the it’s one that has been given a comfortable rubber Zegna wool mill. ‘The Levante is a true and pure sole. It is McLaren’s most refined, luxurious and ASTON MARTIN DB11 5.2-litre V12, 600bhp, Maserati that has perfect on-road and off-road spacious (for luggage) motor car to date, and one 0–62mph 3.9 seconds, capabilities, offering owners the ultimate in terms that lends itself to being a user-friendly daily drive, 200mph, £157,900 of elegance, practicality and comfort of a luxury which widens the net to more potential buyers and FERRARI CALIFORNIA SUV,’ says Giulio Pastore, Maserati Europe’s therefore to more women. Other McLaren models 3.8-litre V8, 560bhp, General Manager. are suited better to track driving and are often 0–62mph 3.6 seconds, It is a bold step for the manufacturer with bought as third or fourth cars, whereas the 570GT’s 196mph, £155,254 a rich motorsport pedigree, but it is a very logical talent lies in being the one McLaren that can do a bit MCLAREN 570GT one when you look at today’s driving tastes and the of everything. ‘It is simple to drive,’ says McLaren’s 3.8-litre V8, 562bhp, rapid rise of that marketplace – Bentley and Jaguar Donna Falconer, Senior Manager of Global Product 0–62mph 3.4 seconds, 204mph, £154,000 are new to the scene, too.

Strategy. ‘It has the McLaren DNA of being as easy Looking at the bigger picture, the relationship in a traffic jam as it is on a track day.’

MASERATI LEVANTE between women and the whole car industry has Any timidity about sliding into the 204mph two3.0 V6 diesel, 275bhp, 0–62mph 6.9 seconds, come an awfully long way since naked ladies seater is banished by the design touches that include 142mph, £54,335 adorned sportscars at motorshows in the 1970s. a slimmer door sill to assist elegant exits, superb Yes, they really did. n ergonomics and lashings of light from the glass roof.

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The smaller, lesser-known African Forest Elephant has lost more than 60% of its entire population within less than two decades. They are suffering a fate far worse than their savannah elephant cousins.

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THE INSIDER INTERIORS · LIVING · DESIGN

IF WALLS COULD TALK De Gournay invited interior designer Ken Fulk’s imaginative wit to run wild for a 30-panel series.

The hand-painted Magical Menagerie wallpaper fancies that the animals in Central Park’s zoo have escaped into the garden of a doyenne of Upper East Side polite society. The result is lighthearted but the artistry is serious, each panel taking 150 hours to create. £1,712 per panel. degournay.com

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Design Q&A KATE MACLAREN Make sure the beds face in the right direction, says Winch Design’s superyacht interior designer What was your first job? Working in a nursing home one summer.

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Which space has left the biggest impact on you?

Which yacht would you have kept for yourself? One of my

The Natural History Museum – I’m in awe of its Romanesque architecture and the intensity of the material colouring.

favourites was Phoenix Two. The interior combined traditional New York Art Deco influences with a contemporary twist, creating a sense of relaxed glamour.

Most extravagant yacht project you’ve worked on? Dilbar, one of the most complex and challenging yachts ever built, providing interior spaces that have never been seen on a yacht before, including the largest indoor pool.

Which room in your home do you spend most time in? Currently the

What are the most important elements to consider when designing a yacht? The

garden, as I live in a small flat I love to get outside and be in natural light.

individual design cues from my clients are key – what styles do they like, what hotels do they stay in, what are their homes like? Don’t forget about the environment the yacht is intended for – to be used with family or with friends, to stay in the Mediterranean or to explore the world. The circulation of crew is also critical; it needs to work seamlessly.

First piece of furniture you ever bought? A coffee table on eBay; it had the most enormous glass top that I had to carry into my flat on my own.

Last thing you bought for you own home? We just redid the garden and bought a fire pit and created an outdoor cinema.

What would you most like to change about it? The windows

What thing would we not think to consider? The direction that the beds face is important – it is always best to face aft to forwards rather than port to starboard (side to side).

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Club Tropicana The arrival of Amanera in the Dominican Republic in 2015 has really upped the island’s ante, says Mary Lussiana Take it easy under the palms at Amanera

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Rees Jones refreshed the golf course originally designed by his father, Robert Trent Jones

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ith a capital boasting the oldest cathedral and fortress in the New World, lush, verdant forest which covers soaring mountains, spectacular beaches and, of course, rum, cigars and chocolate, the Dominican Republic has long been one of the jewels in the Caribbean crown. Until recently though, there has never been a hotel that pulled the travelling cognoscenti in the way that other neighbouring islands have done. Step up Amanera, which opened at the end of 2015 overlooking the flawless sweep of Playa Grande’s golden sands from its perch on the cliff tops high above.

It is on the north coast of the island, an hour away from Puerto Plata airport, past villages clad in colourful Caribbean graffiti, where the evocative beat of music seeps into the car as you drive through. The arrival is memorable – just a glint of sea is visible – through the John Heah designed Casa Grande, the main hotel building.

As you descend to enter the lobby and reception, you are treated first to split-level water features, then an infinity pool and finally the sea – blue upon blue upon blue – visible in one sweeping glance. Beyond are 25 casitas, built into terraces that run down to the palm-fringed sands. Half of them

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have private pools; all have huge terraces, and interiors of polished concrete, teak and handmade Aguayo tiles in soft blues. Sparingly decorated, their starkness allows the main attraction to be the outside which dominates through the floor-to-ceiling glass windows.

Beneath you lies the Amanera Beach Club Restaurant, where you can dig your toes in the sand and dine off delicious blackened tuna with palm heart salad while deciding if you have time for a dip before lunch. After lunch you should walk along the beach, famous on the island for its beauty, past the also new, Playa Grande Beach Club, whose enchanting, white-latticed, woodwork bungalows, in various pastel washes, peep through the palms lining the beach.

Continue on and you find a little restaurant by the sands, a favourite of the locals, where the lobster is lip-smackingly good.

Turn around to walk home and you see Amanera in the distance, its low-lying structure atop the huge cliffs which rise 60 feet up from the shore. Behind the hotel buildings is the golf course, marking a first for Aman resorts, who have never before had a golf-integrated hotel. The course, originally designed by Robert Trent Jones Sr. was refreshed by his son Rees Jones and is a beauty. Ten of its 18 holes seduce with ocean views as you follow the curve of the coastline, breeze coming off the sea as you play. A little further is the spa, where you View from your private pool can give in to body treatments such

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as coffee exfoliation with a rosemary-infused, clay body wrap before a long massage, or a clay body wrap infused with guanãbana leaves. All the body treatments include the option of smudging, which is the fanning of Palo Santo (holy wood) wood smoke over your body. Traditionally, this is done before a journey to provide a new beginning, cleansing the body, mind and soul. Head out then, refreshed, to see the island.

First stop should be the little fishing village of Río San Juan. Here you can rent one of the colourful wooden boats and explore the Laguna Gri Gri, a freshwater lagoon which is lined with mangroves. Stop near one of the pristine beaches and snorkel or go into a sea cave to find nesting swallows.

The little village itself boasts a vibrant street art scene with bold murals and graffiti interspersing the shops selling larimar jewellery. Larimar is a rare blue rock that exists only in the Dominican Republic and adorns many pendants here.

Look too for maracas – hollow balls made from dried gourd shells filled with seeds or dried beans – an essential instrument for Bachata, the island’s music. You might also see zemís, made from native Guayacan wood, handcrafted by local artisans. Originating from the indigenous Taíno people, these zemís were worshipped as physical representation of gods and spirits.

More for the body than the soul, chocolate is a good buy, with the island home to fine quality organic cocoa. Dominican chocolate offers a variety of flavours from wood, tobacco and spice to fresh fruits. Look out for a local family company called Kah Kow, which produces excellent chocolate and has over a century’s experience in planting,

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ABOVE: One of 25 stylish casitas LEFT: Tuck in to fresh food at the Beach Club

BOOK IT Rates for a casita at Amanera start from approximately £853 per room per night, plus VAT. amanera.com

LEFT: Paddle boarding through mangroves RIGHT: The Beach Club

harvesting and producing the first organic chocolate on the island.

And then there are the cigars and rum.

The local drink is called Mama Juana and has a reputation for being an aphrodisiac.

It is a potent mix of equal amounts of rum, red wine and honey, which are allowed to steep with local leaves, dried bark and herbs for a month before drinking. For the cigars you must go to Babunoco, a restaurant in the jungle-clad hills nearby, where after wholesome family food you can pull up a chair and get a lesson in how to roll cigars from the Chef Patron, Juan Alberto Martinez.

With more than a decade’s experience at Arturo Fuente, one of the Domincan Republic’s most exclusive cigar brands, Juan Alberto is a fount of knowledge, explaining the difference between the varieties of cigar and how to blend, roll and press the tobacco.

But it is the views that are the memory I treasure most from my stay here. Of course dawn rising over a deserted golden beach, sea coming in awash with gentle, egg-white, foam, is magnificent, but best of all was the onset of night.

From a seat in the bar, you could watch the beautifully designed pool beneath you merge into the inky blue of dusk. Then a dinner of scallop ceviche with mango and mojito foam, followed by caramelised mahi-mahi, as the silver moon begins to rise into the black night.

Then, the moment when its height allowed it to be reflected in the dark waters of the infinity pool beneath.

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t’s every car enthusiast’s dream adventure – a 1,040-mile drive through the spiritual home of McLaren on some of the finest roads in the Southern Hemisphere.

The Surrey-based car-maker wanted to commemorate the life of Kiwi-born founder Bruce McLaren in style. The Epic New Zealand Road Tour was years in the making but ultimately delivered a mouth-watering display of auto exotica.

Only McLaren owners were invited, paying up to £50,000 for the chance to travel from as far away as California, Hong Kong and the Lebanon to take part. The hot metal on show included every current model, plus a P1 hypercar and the Holy Grail of McLarens – a priceless F1 from the 1990s.

Mingling with customers was five-time Le Mans winner Derek Bell – himself a McLaren driver in the late 1960s. Bruce’s daughter Amanda was there too, as well as former Williams F1 driver Bruno Senna, nephew of the legendary Ayrton and now a McLaren test driver himself.

The exclusive drive from Auckland

Fast forward – arriving at Queenstown

A view to remember – Lake Wakatipu on the South Island

to Queenstown would wind its way down the country on a specially designed route.

It would include track days, spectacular scenery, a helicopter ride with All Blacks rugby hero Richie McCaw, plus the very best food, wine and hotels that New Zealand could offer.

‘New Zealand is a special place for anybody involved with McLaren,’ said Bruno Senna.

‘Bruce was a grand prix-winning driver, a pioneering car designer and founder of one of the most successful F1 teams in history. Like my uncle, he deserves to be called a legend.’

The police have ‘legendary’ powers to control bad driving in New Zealand too, so McLaren was determined the event wouldn’t turn into a Gumball Rally. The ‘Boy Racer Rule’ allows courts to deter persistent speeding offenders by confiscating their car – then having it crushed. The maximum speed limit is 62mph, officers hand out tickets for cutting corners and motorists can lose their licence for exceeding the speed limit by just 25mph.

Organisers must have expected more than a few run-ins with the police during the trip.

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There’s little to mark the track’s illustrious motoring past but other winners included Graham Hill, Jackie Stewart and Bruce’s fellow countryman, Chris Amon.

Later, the tour stops at the Bruce McLaren Motorsport Park, about three hours from Auckland at Taupo, in the centre of the North Island. The track session was planned as a chance for owners to ‘size up’ fellow drivers and show off their driving skills, although heavy rain prevented a full on assault on the lap record.

Manoeuvring so many low-slung vehicles onto the Interislander Ferry between the North and South islands the next day ABOVE: The Cardrona is one of New Zealand’s most historic hotels could have had expensive consequences too. However, McLarens boast electronic height adjustment that takes the scrape out of the loading process. Soon the tour was passing through the stunning Marlborough Sounds on a four-hour crossing with an expensive cargo on the car deck.

McLaren’s adventure was big news on New Zealand television. Nightly coverage meant more spectators on the road with every passing day, applauding the cars as they passed through every village and intersection.

For wealthy supercar owners looking for a gift to remind them of their New Zealand tour, what about a McLaren GT4? Former BTCC driver, Danny Buxton, showed off the racing version of the 570S at the finale of the event, hot lapping around the newly opened Highlands Motorsport Park, near Queenstown.

The British Car Museum claims the The Epic Tour covered almost 1,400-miles with barely a speeding ticket world’s largest collection of British classics along the way. That night, I asked Amanda McLaren what her father might have thought of the event. ‘I think he would have felt honoured. He was a very proud Kiwi and returned home as often as he could. You only have However, the only major incident happened on the last to look at the response from residents here, almost 50 years after he died, day, when an Australian owner crashed his F1 on a hill to see how his memory lives on.’ route. Painfully expensive but nobody was seriously hurt.

Derek Bell, who knew McLaren in the late 1960s, added: ‘Bruce was New Zealand may be similar in size to Great Britain almost invincible with his Can-Am cars and I’m pretty certain he planned but with a head count of just over four million, the roads to go on and race at Le Mans, if he hadn’t been killed. are refreshingly empty. The population does have a ‘If he could have seen the McLaren cars that took part in this New Zealand voracious appetite for motor sport and thousands lined tour he would have been gobsmacked and stunned at his legacy. Even the young the route to see the McLaren cavalcade pass. people who turned out to watch the drive are amazed the cars still have a flying Bruce McLaren was born in Auckland, where his Kiwi logo on the bonnet. It would have been a very proud moment for him.’ parents ran a service station. He entered his first hillclimb in an Austin 7 Ulster when he was just 14. Later, he won the New Zealand Grand Prix Association’s Driver To Europe scheme for promising racers.

McLaren joined the Cooper factory team in England alongside Jack Brabham and won the 1959 United States Grand Prix – the youngest ever winner at that time. After more victories he set up McLaren Motor Racing, which competed in F1 and then very successfully in Can-Am. McLaren died on the Lavant straight at Goodwood in 1970 while testing a new Can-Am car. He famously wrote in a 1964 motor racing book: ‘To do something well is so worthwhile that to die trying to do it better cannot be foolhardy.’ So it was only right that McLaren owners on the Epic Tour took a detour 30 miles south of Auckland, to drive past Pukekohe Park Raceway. Now a horse racing venue, Pukekohe originally opened in 1963 as the venue for the New Zealand Grand Prix.

Driving through the Nelson John Surtees won that first race, with McLaren Lakes National Park taking the title in 1964, driving a Cooper Climax.

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The Hotel Wizard Ibiza’s little sister island is just idyllic, says Fiona Duncan

TEN REASONS WHY I LOVE

Gecko Beach Club, Formentera

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The beachside setting, with green lawns running down to a heavenly slice of sand and sea.

Formentera’s beaches are unrivalled in the Balearics

Sunset strolls

FORMER YEARS IN FORMENTERA If Ibiza is the extrovert disco queen, Formentera is her naturally beautiful little sister who prefers midnight to stroll barefoot on a moonlit beach. It’s 40 years since I last visited and yet remarkably little has changed. Just a half-hour ferry ride from Ibiza, it’s in a slow-paced world of its own. April, May, September and October are its best months; avoid August when Italians descend; every one of them hires a moped. Stay at Gecko Beach, eat at Es Calò in Es Calò, Macondo in Sant Ferran or Ca Na Pepa in Sant Francesc, shop at Vintage next to Ca Na Pepa and seek out the beaches at Cala Saona and Playa de Ses Illetes among many gems, unrivalled in the Balearics.

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SWIMQUEST

« Talking of backwaters, the Norfolk Broads are another quiet delight. Stay at The Norfolk Mead Hotel (norfolkmead.co.uk) with its own launch or, for an excellent Washingford House B&B, at lovely Washingford House run by Paris and Nigel Back (washingford.com).

» Missing India? Then dine at Kricket for treats such as bone marrow and cep kulcha and Misti Doi (pomegranate, rose, pistachio).

Their buzzing Soho hangout kicked off in a Brixton market shipping container, with more surely to come (kricket.co.uk).

Chic city stays

Want to improve your swimming?

Or learn from scratch? Or prepare to swim the Channel? John ConinghamRolls organises guided open water swimming all over the world, from the Maldives to the Arctic, but Formentera is perhaps his favourite location, for he, like me, spent childhood summers there. Choose from an Improvers Tour for all levels, a Technique Tour with Olympic medallist Cassie Patten or a Channel and Distance Tour for advanced swimmers. No waters that he knows are quite as beautifully coloured as these. Bonding with your fellow mermaids and mermen guaranteed. swimquest.co.uk

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The chic yet low-key vibe courtesy of new owner Pablo Carrington (Cap Rocat, Urso) and designer Antonio Obrador.

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The sound of lapping waves that lull you to sleep.

Spotting a gecko – they bring luck if you see one inside.

Yannis, best yoga teacher outside Manhattan, where he studied for ten years with yogi Dharma Mittra.

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Unspoiled Formentera, Ibiza’s shy and laidback little sister.

The peaceful walking and cycling trails that criss-cross the island.

Kiosko 62, next to the hotel: the original hippy beach shack.

Lounging on the lawn on a double sunbed, facing the ocean...

… And marvelling at its astonishing colours, famed in Formentera.

Doubles from £200 (+34 971 328024; geckobeachclub.com).

Indian feast at Kricket

« Confused by the London homestay scene? Delve into the Plum Guide to find the best, be it a cabin in Camden or a cottage in Chelsea (plumguide.com).

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The Los Angeles skyline

THE WEEKENDER

Have a La La Land-type weekend in LA

Los Angeles A weekend in LA, flying from London, are you completely insane? Hear me out, says Sam Kinchin-Smith

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It’s also the city of sprawl, though, woven out of 6,500 miles of roads. Which makes your choice of basecamp even more important than usual. You’ll find one of the world’s most iconic hotels in each of the city’s centres, from Chateau Marmont on Sunset Boulevard, to Hotel Bel-Air in the hills of the Platinum Triangle, via Shutters on the Beach in Santa Monica. But these felt

ABOVE & BELOW: Omni Los Angeles Hotel

like plastic palaces whereas I wanted to drain a martini or five before returning to the Art Deco grit of a real neighbourhood for the night, flashing with taco stands, concert halls and gay bars.

Reader, I went downtown, and with the Millennium Biltmore looking a bit tired these days, turned instead to the Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza. Here were huge, handsome rooms with whole-wall windows towering over the city; here too the all-important perfectly formed gym and pool to splash away the jet lag, a gorgeous La La Land piano bar, and God’s own weekend brunch.

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t’s true that a total flight time of almost 24 hours makes the prospect of a weekend – in the strictest sense – in Los Angeles sound like an irredeemably bonkers idea. Add a day either end, though, and it becomes the most thrilling, otherworldly, glamorous weekender imaginable. Arrive having lost, in terms of LA time, just three hours, then plan a red-eye return journey so that you’re able to skip straight off the plane into a working day back home, and you’ll realise that Cali isn’t so very far away.

A first-class cabin is advisable for moments like this, but I’d also recommend the budget option: Xanax, baby! I bought two from an Uber driver who looked like George Michael and was, inevitably, ‘only driving to make money during a dry patch’ in his career as a singer-songwriter. Because this is LA, where the western world’s most beautiful people come to make it, or break it in such a way that it looks like they’re having more fun anyway. Do you really want to be somebody who chooses Bruges over the city of stars?

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A great view from the Griffith Observatory Dancing in the street; Venice Beach

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This isn’t something you’re allowed to say in polite company any more, but thank Christ for Uber: it’s made great LA itineraries possible, like a morning spent with the Griffith Observatory’s impossible-to-resist views; followed by a meander up shockingly trashy Hollywood Boulevard, dodging hunks reduced to dressing up as Superman; then west to Venice Beach, where the crusties, body-poppers, musclemen and jugglers come together in a mad, vagrant drum circle as the sun goes down; and finally, a road trip by night along Mulholland Drive, with Angelo Badalamenti on the stereo and the bright fog of the city below.

After driving for a day, spend the next day walking. The Omni is only a block away from The Broad, one of the most exciting new museums in the world, thanks to Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Infinity Mirrored Room’. Next door is the Walt Disney Concert Hall, a cubist, stainless steel rose designed by Frank Gehry which is home to America’s best orchestra, the LA Phil. But the most potent culture to be found in Los Angeles is on the streets, as the rambunctious everyday suddenly melts into the eerie choreography of a film set.

Ocean Avenue, Santa Monica

LIVE LIKE A LOCAL… There’s a gentler, friendlier Los Angeles just beneath the surface, or rather just around the corner, if you know where to look.

Sidestep the celebrity watchers by drinking coffee in Larchmont Village, hitting the beach just a little way beyond Malibu at peaceful Paradise Cove, nibbling a path though The Original Farmers Market in Fairfax, then grabbing a BBQ supper in Koreatown.

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You’re in the capital of the world’s creepiest religion, Scientology, so be sure to make the most of it with a tour of the L. Ron Hubbard Life Exhibition. Or if you’d rather maintain a little more distance, there’s a great brunch spot, radical theatre and record store on Franklin Avenue, in the shadow of the Celebrity Centre.

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Brunch at the Omni is a hell of thing, supercharged with a massive seafood display of snow crab and shrimp, menudo and haejang-guk hangover soups, slow-roasted brisket and bottomless mimosas. Brunch is one of the four cornerstones of LA cuisine, along with sushi, Mexican food and Silver Lake affectation. Stay downtown for parts one and two: the famous Grand Central Market is a short stroll from the Omni, past the Angels Flight funicular, and accommodates long-established stands selling south-of-the-border staples unafraid of hog maw, tongue and blood sausage. Then distract as many washed-up matinée idols as it takes to get you to the front of Keizo Seki’s queue: at Sushi Zo, there’s only one 25-course menu, and it cleaves buttery diamonds out of jellyfish, albacore and monkfish liver.

If greasy gorditas are at one end of the scale, and exquisitely ritualistic sushi journeys are at the other, then the hipster joints uptown are somewhere in the middle.

I had candy cane beets and ironic lobster rolls at Sawyer, halfway down never-ending Sunset Boulevard, interspersed with raw activated charcoal cocktails.

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Deluxe rooms at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel, from $239 a night. omnihotels. com/losangeles Direct flights from London Heathrow to LAX four times a day with British Airways, and three times a day with Virgin Atlantic. Remember: fly out first thing, and return on a red-eye.

Brunch at the Grand Central Market is a must

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The Kids are Alright Resorts and rentals in the UK and abroad ripe for the whole family. Edited by Daisy Finer

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1ELOUNDA PENINSULA, Crete, Greece

There’s a rumour among the locals that Elounda’s resorts like to keep their clientele within their four rather beautifully bougainvillea-clad walls. And when you’re somewhere like Elounda Peninsula, enviably positioned with jaw-dropping views of the glittering Aegean just about everywhere you turn, and with a ninehole golf course, Six Senses spa (always a massive bonus in our book), private beach and an impeccable kids’ club (complete with pool and water slides), it would be easy to while away your time exclusively here, but it would be a mistake. Not because the all-suite hotel, designed in simple Cretan style (lots of wood, huge pots in corridors, textiles framed on walls with a large dose of naval influence), each with its own private pool, choice of ten restaurants and utterly charming staff (without exception pretty much), it’s just that it’s not really the real Crete. And while you might spot Charlize Theron, Lady Gaga and (while we were there) Lily Allen over your breakfast croissants, once you hit the open road you’re more likely to be tucking into morningcaught fish, a big bowl of Greek salad and a local chilled white either with locals or travellers who want a bit more of an authentic experience. What you must do is take a boat trip to Spinalonga from nearby pretty Elounda town or Plaka, a few kilometres further along

the coast (both lovely spots for lunch or supper too with their proliferance of seaside restaurants). A perfect morning excursion, this former medieval fortress was also home to a leper colony from 1903 to 1957 and is the subject of Victoria Hislop’s The Island.

Children will love rambling along the ramparts and climbing up the rocky incline to the top with its amazing views. You can also walk to semi-deserted beaches with water as clear as gin (though go early before the party boats arrive) and drive the hairpin roads through Cretan villages where women in black sit outside on their porches under the shade to find tavernas with no menu, just the daily catch.

Kids will love it either way.

BOOK IT: Elegant Resorts offers seven nights from £8,930 per family, based on two adults and two children under 12 years, including flights with BA and transfers. elegantresorts.co.uk

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ORIENTAL, 2MANDARIN Bodrum, Turkey

This is a hotel as high end, super smart resort.

Polished and glamorous on the outside – with huge swathes of beaches, numerous lovely restaurants, a buzzy kids’ club and giant bedrooms with views. Some have mini swimming pools out on a big veranda. While they don’t get the sun all day, if you seek privacy be sure to bag two that interlink, because despite the incredible good looks, mothers need not panic; families are truly welcomed. The beaches and restaurants are properly bucket and spade kiddie friendly (chicken nuggets and ketchup galore) and your children will love a cupcake cookery lesson in the hotel kitchens with creations that end up looking worthy of a bakery.

The spa is also lovely. A little bit Japanese, a little bit Balinese – lots of Bonsai trees, plenty of calming wood, mini teapots filled with fresh ginger tea – but it’s the intuition of the therapists that truly brings it to life. They’ll find those tired shoulders and bring them back to life. There’s also a lovely indoor pool, a super swanky giant gym, steams, saunas and hydro pools. Honestly, what more could you want?

BOOK IT: Doubles from € 625. mandarinoriental.com/bodrum

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LES CARASSES, Languedoc, France 3 CHÂTEAU

FRENCH FANCY

This glorious 19th-century wine estate is a stroke of genius, cleverly mixing fabulous hotel facilities with the freedom of self-catering. Set among the glistening vineyards of the Languedoc, the 28 super spacious apartments and villas will make you weep with joy, made up of the original wine cellar, grape-pickers’ lodgings, barns, blacksmith’s house and gardener’s cottage. There are studios but it’s a family dream here, so pack up the little ones and book one of the four Maisons de la Cave, which sleep six. With distant views of the Pyrenees, it’s all rustic chic with cream-licked walls, exposed beams and white muslin drapes plus your own private pool. There’s a Smeg fridge, too, for piling with cheeses, charcuterie and other local delights. Alternatively, plump for the château’s restaurant, serving modern Mediterranean cuisine complemented by the best regional wines.

The massive garden is beyond lovely with ancient trees, olive groves and a pretty orangery, designed

by Gustave Eiffel. Order a picnic and go for a long meander through the estate before flopping in the huge infinity pool. Further fun can be found on the tennis courts, in the kids’ club or go all-out French and try your hand at a game of boules.

BOOK IT: Doubles from € 219. lescarrasses.com

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With woodland to ramble in, treehouses to play in and den-building and more with Sharky and George (literally little ones are whipped away for three hours, leaving you to kick back with the papers), children are brilliantly catered for at the Garden House, the 11-bedroomed first phase of the hotly anticipated opening of Beaverbrook, a new addition to the luxury country-house hotel market set amid 400 acres of privately owned Surrey countryside. While the grand main building (former home of media tycoon Lord Beaverbrook), which opens this month with a spa set to open later in the year, will appeal more to couples with its Susie Atkinson-designed interiors smacking of old-school glamour, the cute and cosy Garden House is the place to settle in with the kids. Wellie boots can be borrowed, board games played, babysitting arranged, brownie and cookie cooking lessons attended and, of course, there’s plenty to explore out and about with horse riding, Bocketts Farm and the glorious Surrey Hills on the doorstep. And being just a 40-minute drive from the capital will no doubt ensure that the whole place becomes a weekend home from home for lucky Londoners and their tribe.

BOOK IT: Doubles from £280. beaverbrook.co.uk

PARK, 5LUCKNAM Wiltshire

Gorgeous, honey-coloured Lucknam Park near Bath pretty much has all bases covered when it comes to bringing the family along to stay. New this year though is The Hideaway, a beautiful cottage in the grounds of the hotel, which has been converted into a playhouse catering to children of all ages.

From the sensory baby room and the fun-packed role-play to the messy play water wall and the games room for teens upstairs, there’s plenty to keep them entertained, whatever the weather. While there is talk of introducing a childcare element in the future, at the moment it’s stay and play... But who wouldn’t want the chance to play Pat Sharp in your very own country cottage version of Fun House? All this alongside its swanky new relaunched ESPA spa (one of only three such in the UK) and excellent fine-dining options, there will be a chance for some me-time, too.

BOOK IT: From £650 per family per night. lucknampark.co.uk

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6 MAYO LANDING, Cotswolds

This is like something out of a Famous Five novel. Your own little island in the middle of a 100-acre lake, reached by crossing a private bridge, where you’ll find a wooden, two storey retreat to hunker down in with your gang (it sleeps 11). Sneak downstairs early in the morning for precious, peaceful moments looking out across the still water before everyone else wakes up. Then it’s all action as youngsters go wild for kayaking and paddle-boarding, and spend hours exploring the nearby coves in the Irish rowing boat. For more laid-back downtime, there’s a heated swimming pool, a private beach next to a sunken garden, a log sauna and a decked walkway that leads down to a steaming hot tub at the edge of the lake (exactly where you’ll want to be as the moon rises). Rooms are cosy with Egyptian cotton linen on the beds, Aromatherapy Associates goodies in the bathroom and balconies with rocking chairs for playing board games or a snooze. There’s a fully-equipped country kitchen and wood burner but if the weather holds, carry on the adventure outside with a BBQ supper, followed by a sing-song and toasted marshmallows around the crackling fire pit.

BOOK IT: From £1,125 (four nights mid-week). loghouseholidays.co.uk

WATERSIDE ADVENTURE

FARM BARNS, Shropshire 7REDFORD

VALLEY LIVING

Hidden away in the folds of a Shropshire valley, the barns are the ultimate country getaway for families. Developed by interior design duo Jude and Rupert Hunt (creative director of Godrich Interiors), the two adjoining barns sleep four and nine respectively and ooze effortlessly stylish country living. Vintage mirrors hang on exposed brick, framed original Enid Blyton prints pop off Farrow and Ball walls, and upcycled furniture blends seamlessly with antiques from the nearby market town of Ludlow. ‘The most beautiful town in England,’ according to poet laureate John Betjeman, is a treasure trove of arts, crafts and independent food shops, so it’s the perfect place to stock up on provisions. Yet the real USP is the access-all-areas approach to the family farm. Guests can help themselves from the veg patch and orchard, harvest fresh eggs from the chickens and run free (or roll) through the fields. There’s an old caravan for kids to play in, converted stable with dart board, vintage toys and top hats hanging from the rafters, plus an outdoor kitchen for al fresco cook-ups. Stoke up the wood-burning stove and plan your very own move to the country.

BOOK IT: Three nights in Tenbury Cottage (sleeps four), from £549. redfordfarmbarns.co.uk

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ESCAPE

GO YOUR OWN WAY Hole up in one of these four family-friendly villas without anyone to worry about other than yourselves

▲ LA PARETTE PROVENCE, FRANCE

▼ MASSERIA DELLA LUCE

▲ AKROTHEA MEGANISI, GREECE

Just visible from the water, palatial villa Akrothea is tucked into the hillside, looming over the rugged coastline of quaint little Meganisi in the Ionian Isles.

And if its position is its strong suit, then the aquamarine infinity pool is the ace card.

Though it has 400m of private coastline and ten acres of garden, you’ll be hard pressed to venture far from the poolside, where a huge outdoor bar and dining area offer welcome shade under ancient olive trees.

Explore though, because Vathi harbour is gorgeous at dusk (mountain bikes can be arranged, as can babysitting), with a smattering of tavernas.

Just don’t assume it’s your little secret. Sleepy Meganisi is already on the UHNWI hit list, with the likes of Jacob Rothschild recently snapping up 500 hectares in the south, and plenty of passing superyachts to gawk at.

BOOK IT: Sleeps ten.

From £4,679 per week. thethinkingtraveller.com

PUGLIA, ITALY

▲ VILLA OCEANA SIFNOS, GREECE

Now this is a clever idea for families who want to be close but also stay that little bit independent, or who are bringing friends along. First off it’s all modern and sparkling white and the accommodation – in three separate ‘houses’ – is based around a lovely smart seawater pool, with loads of lounging space, a playground, tennis court and hammam. Secondly, it has its own direct access to the beach and is fully equipped with lots of sports equipment such as canoes, kayaks and surf boards. Sifnos itself is wonderfully unspoilt and the food is some of the best in the Med. BOOK IT: Sleeps 16. From € 21,000 per week. brightbluevillas.com

Forget Tuscany, Puglia in the south is far cooler. Plonk yourselves round the pool of this 200-year-old villa that has been wonderfully renovated but without losing any of its charm and watch the children run riot in the lovely large gardens. Inside, you’ll find exposed brickwork and wooden beams throughout, plus it’s all laid out on one level so you don’t have to worry about anything like steep stone steps for little ones. The closest restaurant is half a kilometre away, activities like horse riding are also nearby and it’s just 15km from the world-famous UNESCO World Heritage Site of Matera.

Charming and easy.

BOOK IT: Sleeps six. From £1,528 per week. cvvillas.com

Could there be anything better than summer in Provence, the grasshoppers chirruping, the French sun throbbing down and all that fabulous wine and fresh baguette gobbled down with a ripe Camembert? And why not do it in style in Édith Piaf’s former home, a jaw-droppingly beautiful, mas-style property just a short drive away from the pretty and historic villages of Valbonne and Mougins. Children will frolic in the pool and play hide and seek around the two and half acre plot, complete with treehouse and swings and slide, while you spread out under an old oak tree with a bottle of Bandol. Sounds good to us.

BOOK IT: Sleeps 16. From £12,529 to £15,139 per week. redsavannah.com n

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Villas

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Hotels

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FOOD & TRAVEL

NEWS

MANHATTAN IN MAYFAIR The world’s number one bar, Dead Rabbit, comes to Claridge’s for one week only. Sean Muldoon and Jack McGarry founded the cult Irish boozer in New York four years ago and have bagged most awards in the business since. You’ll be able to order their most famous cocktails at the pop-up, such as their take on an Irish coffee, with Cumberland sausage rolls and Irish stew, to the soundtrack of a ragtime piano set. Sounds rough around the edges, but it will be pure class. claridges.co.uk

THIS MONTH FIGHT ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE WITH A FRYING PAN

PIG OUT ON WATER

Finesse your foraging skills on the back of a sea kayak. The PIG on the Beach is offering hardy foodies the chance to scour the Purbeck shoreline for sea lettuce and truffly pepper dulse seaweed, before heading out to sea to net crabs and fish, returning at low-tide to hunt for razor clams and shellfish. Chef Andy Wright will then transform your catch into a supper fit for Poseidon. £60. thepighotel.com

Gastro Gossip Irish cocktails from New York come to London

GUT INSTINCT

Last year the US government invested $121m to research the microbiome.

Fermented foods have been used for thousands of years for their bacterialboosting qualities, but who really has the time to ferment sauerkraut? Step in LAB, a new monthly subscription service that delivers foods filled with live bacteria, from honey kvass to kefir. Your tummy will thank us later.

From £20 a month. fermentedbylab.com

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TOAST OF THE TOWN

Berry Bros & Rudd has opened a new London shop for the first time in its 319-year history. They haven’t ventured too far, mind you, just around the corner on Pall Mall, but with a renewed focus on ready-to-drink wines and spirits, starting at a tenner. bbr.com

SUMMER SERVES MADAGASCAN CUBA LIBRE Coca Cola, watch out – Fever-Tree is hot on your tail. Mix its new Madagascan Cola with golden rum, ice and two large lime wedges. fever-tree.co.uk

1 BUY Kaelo iceless wine servers have worked with a small collective of British furniture designers to incorporate their cooling systems into coffee tables, sofas and bars, so a cold bottle is always at hand.

From £4,995. kaelo.co.uk

THE NEW SPRITZ Swap Aperol or Campari in any drink’s recipe for Cocchi Rosa – as The Savoy is. Add 60ml Cocchi to a Fevertree tonic water, garnish with ice, strawberries, basil and black pepper. cocchi.it

SMOKY MARGARITA Shake equal parts Cointreau, Anejo tequila and mescal, add the same again of lime juice. Strain over ice in a smoked saltrimmed glass. cointreau.com

Slow down antibiotic resistance by eating… bacon. We’re not telling porkies. Spoiltpig launches the UK’s first bacon pack to be raised without antibiotics. From £3. spoiltpig.co.uk

3 READ The Ivy Now reveals the secrets of its most classic dishes from the last 100 years, alongside wry commentary about life behind the scenes. £30. the-ivy.co.uk

4 DRINK At the Stephen Webster-designed bar in Chapel Down’s smart new tasting room. Its chalk resin façade is encrusted with chunks of Kent flint – a nod to that all important terroir. chapeldown.com

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RECIPE

Q&A

Inside Scoop Alex Mackay’s frozen yoghurt will cause a ripple of excitement

Raspberry jam ripple frozen yoghurt This is a simple way of making ‘ice cream’. It’s tangy, refreshing and delicious, just the thing for a summer’s afternoon.

You don’t absolutely need an ice cream machine for this recipe but the texture will be smoother and lighter if the frozen yoghurt is made in one.

Directions

INGREDIENTS SERVES TWO FOR THE JAM (makes 1.9kg): » 1kg jam sugar » Grated zest of 1 orange » Grated zest and juice (3 tbsp) of 1 lemon » 1kg raspberries » Jam thermometer FOR THE ICE CREAM » 1 x 250g tub full-fat yoghurt (the more fat the better), or fromage blanc » 250g raspberry jam

To make the jam, take a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan, add the jam sugar, citrus zest and lemon juice. Add the raspberries. Give it a gentle toss rather than stir so as not to break up the raspberries.

Gently bring to the boil.

Watch over it and make sure the sugar dissolves before it starts to boil. Stir occasionally to ensure the jam doesn’t stick to the bottom.

Once the jam boils, boil rapidly for four to five minutes, stirring occasionally. The temperature should be 104°C. Take the pan off the heat. Pour the jam into a bowl. Stir gently every now and then as it cools.

This will help distribute the fruit evenly.

Spoon the jam into sterilised jars just before it has set. Fill them right up to the top. Cover first with clingfilm, which should touch the surface of the jam, then with the lids.

Leave to cool. Store in the fridge or a cool place.

To make the ice cream, take a shallow plastic or earthenware container. Add the yoghurt. Whisk in two-thirds of the jam. Put it in the freezer for six hours and vigorously stir every 30 minutes.

After about three hours, take it out of the freezer and fold in the rest of the jam, combining the two just enough to make streaks through the mixture. Freeze for a further two to three hours before serving. If you have an ice cream machine, just pour the original mixture into it and churn. Once it is ready, add the final third of the raspberry jam and churn once or twice until it becomes streaky.

Serve on frozen plates or in frozen glasses.

ALEX MACKAY FOOD WRITER AND PRESENTER What’s your food philosophy?

Food tastes better when you enjoy cooking it. I cook all the time: for work and to relax. Cooking and eating can make you feel magical, but the route to pleasure is to be pragmatic and well prepared.

What’s in your fridge right now?

Pistou, lemon curd, lemon butter, sun-dried tomatoes in oil, salsa verde, raspberry jam and tomato chilli relish.

How can we jazz up our cooking repertoire? The simplest way is to expand your range of seasonings, instead of always reaching for salt and pepper, try smoked paprika, ras-el-hanout, piment d’espelette or Chinese five spice.

What corners should we never cut?

Never serve food without tasting it.

The difference between a nice dish and a delicious one can be a touch of seasoning. Taste, season and taste again.

What’s your favourite thing to cook for a quick weeknight supper? Crab and red curry giant couscousotto I make this with wholewheat giant couscous, ready picked crab, curry paste from my fridge and peas from my freezer. Ready in 20 minutes and tastes incredible.

Most memorable meal you’ve ever had? The most beautiful plate of vegetable crudités with pistou in Provence, a roast spiny lobster in Sydney and lemon curd puddings made by my sons.

What are you cooking that’s in season right now? Tomatoes, I grow 12 different varieties and we eat them with every meal.

In salads, stuffed and baked, in omelettes, grilled with lemon butter, melted into olive oil sauces, in compote, in tarts and so much more.

What is your guilty food pleasure?

Cheese, I love all cheese, from Roquefort to cheddar but the one that makes me feel guilty is the bizarrely irresistible plastic cheese on burgers.

The Magic Fridge by Alex Mackay is out on 27 July (Bloomsbury, £26)

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RESTAURANT REVIEWS

A PLACE IN THE SUN

Fork & Field

DINING ROOMS MADE FOR HOT DAYS

Two well-seasoned chefs, two very different passions projects, says Anastasia Bernhardt

WHATLEY MANOR, WILTSHIRE While Whatley Manor might be best known for its two Michelin-starred dining room, when the mercury rises a 12-course tasting menu might tip you over the edge. Try instead its Grey’s Brasserie for a seasonal supper served on the terrace. It’s the best seat in the house for soaking in the heavenly English country garden. whatleymanor.com TOWN

Vineet Bhatia, SW3

COUNTRY

Lympstone Manor, Devon

Fine dining has, at times, an infuriating penchant for the ridiculous; from dry ice and edible balloons, sand and dirt to flicking sauce ‘paint splashes’ at the table, we’ve seen it all. So Michael Caines’ new country-house hotel is a breath of fresh air above all that hot gas. His quietly confident style of cooking doesn’t need any jiggery-pokery to make it spectacular. He knows that ginger and lemongrass will make langoustine cannelloni zing and how to make a simple red wine sauce induce biblical salivation. These are wily tricks that only those with a career as esteemed as Caines’ can pull off. Having held two Michelin stars at Gidleigh Park for 18 years, he has returned to home turf on the Exe Estuary, which is reflected in everything from the art works by local artists (and available to buy) to the optional ‘Taste of the Estuary’ menu promoting local seafood.

A classic for the future.

Signature tasting menu, £140. lympstonemanor.co.uk London Shell Co

It’s glaringly obvious when a restaurant is a passion project not a money spinner, and it’s clear Vineet Bhatia has poured his soul into these four walls – from the heartfelt essay tucked into the menu to the abstract serveware in the intimate 32-cover, no-expenses-spared dining room. Though he has a handful of restaurants already, this is the first time his creative talent has been unfettered by financial backers or dated ideas about Indian cuisine. If you can’t be doing with tasting menus, this isn’t for you – that’s the only thing on offer. But the culinary open-minded would be foolish not to let this spice master guide them through the flavours he grew up with – like slowcooked lamb dressed with northern Indian spices, served on a southernstyle uttapam. Don’t be misled, this is no Bombay Café but finessed fine dining with the price tag to prove it – even passion projects must wash their own face. Tasting menu, £105. vineetbhatia.london

DISHES OF THE MONTH… 1 Harry, who runs front of house aboard the London Shell Co canal boat. The torched mackerel is pretty tasty too (londonshellco.com). 2 Steak frites at Joe Allen, which has moved everything but the kitchen sink from its West End home of 40 years into new digs on Burleigh Street (joeallen.co.uk). 3 Michelinstarred Gonzalo Luzarraga’s Piedmont dishes from his childhood at RIGO’, new to the New King’s Road (rigolondon.com).

WESTERNS LAUNDRY, N5 The team behind Stoke Newington’s Primeur has opened its muchanticipated second site in Highbury.

The former was in a converted garage, the latter an old laundrette. Its sunny but simple dining room opens onto a relaxed courtyard through industrial bifold doors that run the length of the restaurant, while the light and low intervention wines by the glass make it our top choice for a slap-up seafood lunch on a summer’s day. westernslaundry.com

RIVER EXE CAFÉ, DEVON Not one for landlubbers, this barge restaurant has been cast out into the middle of the Exe Estuary.

Constructed from two flat-bed barges and a shed, there’s no mains water or electricity and it’s every bit as cobbled together as you could wish for, strung with jolly bunting. The 100 lucky diners on board can feast on Devon’s finest oysters, Lyme Bay scallops and Brixham crab. riverexecafe.com

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ON THE MOVE PROPERTY

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HOUSE OF THE MONTH BRUDENELL HOUSE Quainton, Buckinghamshire £2.65M Sell it to us in a sentence... It’s beautifully and immaculately refurbished, hidden by the church at the edge of a thriving village within an hour from London.

Does it have any juicy history? The house is now on the market for only the second time since its construction. It was formerly owned by KB McFarlane, one of the most influential British historians and Alan Bennett’s tutor.

How would you describe its design?

Dating back to the 16th century, the house is a classic Georgian rectory in appearance. Internally, however, it has been renovated and now offers an abundance of period character in a contemporary and comfortable setting.

Best room in the house? The drawing room with its wonderful panelling and views over the garden.

What would the parties be like here?

Glamorous with a healthy mix of locals and friends from London up for just the evening.

A perfect party would start with cocktails on the terrace and lead to a band playing in the coach house and a firepit by the lake.

Would we need to hire a gardener?

The gardens are a mixture of formal and informal. The copse can take care of itself, while the gardens will need a mow but aren’t fussy. … so what’s the downside? Guests overstaying their welcome. With such easy access to London, the phone won’t stop ringing with chums wanting to pop in.

What’s on the doorstep? Waddesdon Manor – a stunning Rothschild country house open to the public. Bicester Retail Outlet Village and the city of Oxford are both within 30 minutes.

The current owner says… ‘It is a wrench to leave Brudenell House – the village is caring with a strong community and we have loved being part of it. The house is extraordinary, hidden at the end of the village with a view of the church, I don’t think we will ever find a home to replace it.’

020 7861 1230; knightfrank.com

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Seaside Sanctuaries

Sailors, drop your anchor here as we profile the top five places to buy a property by the sea

Seaside homes come at a premium

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Sunset over boats at Sandbanks, Poole, Dorset

towns,’ says Halifax economist Martin Ellis. And it goes without saying that when it comes to living by the water, the better the view, the more you have to pay.

Agency Jackson-Stops & Staff has researched the premiums charged and paid for waterside properties. Those with ocean views attract the greatest premium of 30.4 per cent compared to homes with river views (23.6 per cent) or by canals (17.6 per cent).

Here are the Halifax’s top six locations in terms of price.

Enjoy that sea breeze...

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e may all love to be beside the seaside, especially at this time of year – but we certainly have to pay for the privilege if we want to live there, too. That’s because TOP TIPS FOR despite our era of austerity, average house prices BUYING ON in British seaside towns have increased by 25 per THE COAST cent over the past decade, according to the Halifax – up from £181,060 in 2007 to £226,916 in 2017, Don’t get carried away buying a property for which is the equivalent to an average increase its view without a survey of £382 per month.

Many sea-view homes As always though, there’s a marked northhave high maintenance south divide with nine out of the ten most because of wind and salt damage expensive ports being on the south coast. Glitzy Sandbanks in Poole – home to premiership Visit out-of-season to judge a seaside town football stars, sailing-loving businessmen and during (sometimes all kinds of sun-seekers – is the most expensive, bleak) winter months although the largest percentage price increases Ensure a home is not in the past decade have been seen at more at risk of having a development built in understated Aldeburgh in Suffolk. front, removing the view ‘Over the past decade, house prices in the south Check for local tidal east – especially coastal towns within commutable conditions and flood distance to London – have shown strong growth prevention programmes and have become Britain’s most expensive seaside 116 | COUNTRYANDTOWNHOUSE.CO.UK | August 2017

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PROPERTY

1 SANDBANKS

This is the south coast bubble location that has never burst. First put on the map in 1965 when John Lennon bought a bungalow there, now it’s our own version of St Tropez. There’s a finite number of homes with direct views of the water and access to Poole Harbour. As a result, prices are stellar.

BUY: Glass, chrome, party-sized terraces and discreet security for wealthy buyers are the order of the day here. For £6.5m you could buy one of two homes – one with four bedrooms, the other five, and both with direct beach access (hamptons.co.uk).

Halifax average: £664,051.

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Sitting in the South Hams area of outstanding natural beauty, this little port has sandy beaches and a sheltered harbour. There’s great sailing but the location is very popular with young people too and there’s a vibrant family lifestyle all summer. Most buyers are from London – the richest have custom-built homes close to the beach.

BUY: There is just a handful of streets and steep hills, which mean there’s little scope for expansion, so demand pushes up prices. Five-bed Custom House sits right on the edge with stunning estuary views – as it should with £2m price tag (marchandpetit.co.uk). Halifax average: £617,743.

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This artistic haven makes this the outstanding address on the east coast, especially as there’s also plenty of heathland golf, estuary sailing and beautiful beaches nearby.

It’s two hours from London, meaning that it isn’t overwhelmed by commuters too.

BUY: Homes on Crag Path, overlooking the beach, are brightly coloured but go inland a street or two for a real mix – Victorian, post-war and quite a few architect-designed contemporary homes too. This £1.5m, six-bedroom character property is set next to a boating lake at Thorpeness, just a short distance from Aldeburgh (savills.com). (Halifax average: £526,689).

4 LYMINGTON

It’s a favourite for boat owners with three marinas, sailing clubs and even its own small fishing fleet. Its charming Georgian centre draws tourists from across the region and with close proximity to the New Forest National Park and employment centres in Bournemouth and Southampton, it’s a location that’s discreetly affluent.

BUY: There’s a wide range of properties from Victorian terraces to sparkling new houses like this stunning, £1.645m three-bed home with full-height windows for those breathtaking views over Lymington River (savills.com). Halifax average: £441,357.

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5 PADSTOW

Put bluntly, this place is heavenly. It’s a genuinely quiet fishing port in winter but come spring and summer it expands from 9,000 locals to nearly 30,000 drawn by the close proximity of Rock – perfect for sailing – and a flurry of top class restaurants, including Rick Stein’s empire and Paul Ainsworth at Number Six. BUY: Blingy modern homes sit across the Camel at Rock, however most buyers prefer small but premium-priced Victorian cottages on the hilly streets of Padstow itself. By the harbour there’s a two-bed apartment with great views – yours for £500,000 (humberts.com). Halifax average: £422,916.

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6 DARTMOUTH

This gem of a town on the River Dart dates back to the 11th century and has 5,000 lucky residents, most living on a patchwork of streets – none of them far from the water. There are two ferries across to Kingswear and landmarks include a steam rail link with Paignton and the Dartmouth Royal Naval College.

BUY: Nearby villages are dominated by holiday homes but most Dartmouth houses – a mix of old terraces, grand Victorian villas and more contemporary designs – are owner occupied. This £1.495m four-bedroom semi has outstanding river views (jackson-stops.co.uk). Halifax average: £391,775.

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What’s Cooking?

Lida Cucina designs and installs kitchens such as this in London and Home Counties

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hat’s on trend with kitchens right now? Earthy reclaimed wood? Throwing a range into an otherwise urban layout? Spicing up a classic Shaker with some Sub-Zero equipment?

Whatever you do, bear in mind that the kitchen is a key moodsetter for buyers when you come to sell your home – get this room right and the deal becomes a lot easier.

TV property expert Phil Spencer says a top-notch kitchen could add four to five per cent to the value of a home so long as it’s appropriate – in other words, he cautions, don’t spend £50,000 on a kitchen for a £300,000 home. But don’t stint if your property is higher priced.

Likewise, use quality recognisable brands for major kitchen furniture and one-off features like coffee machines, to create a ‘quality’ impression that will benefit the whole property.

‘The kitchen should be the showpiece. A modern, clean and tidy kitchen with up-to-date appliances creates a good impression for the rest of the house – the prospective buyer makes the assumption that

This house for sale in Nottinghamshire comes with an Aga, wine fridge and large central island for entertaining

the whole house is going to be the same,’ explains John Harvey of Lida Cucina, a kitchen design and installation company.

‘Nowadays it’s one of the main entertaining areas for informal dining and dinner parties. It is one of the family areas for relaxing in front of the TV or supervising homework,’ he adds.

Harvey says an eye-catching kitchen helps sale-appeal – few buyers, especially with families, want the hassle of fitting a new one shortly after moving in – and plays into our home cooking and healthy eating zeitgeist. The boiler tap, wine vault and steam oven owe their increasing popularity to homeowners wanting more than a traditional kitchen.

‘Ironically, if a home is £5m-plus, a kitchen counts for less than in less expensive homes. That’s because the buyer will probably refurbish from top to bottom. Below that figure, however, a kitchen is absolutely central for establishing the mood a would-be buyer picks up,’ says London and Home Counties buying agent Roger Thompson.

A recently renovated, seven-bedroom coach house at Pinxton in Nottinghamshire (£1m. humberts.com) has been given an appropriately dramatic new kitchen with an Aga, wine fridge and large island perfect for entertaining.

In Northamptonshire an extension to the Old Stone House (£785,000. jackson-stops.co.uk) incorporates features salvaged from the previous property on the site – including a beautiful kitchen/breakfast room, perfectly attuned to the rest of the property.

And if all that’s not enough, the trend is now extending to two kitchens. One-time wannabe prime minister Ed Miliband posed in both his kitchens during the 2015 general election while the Duchess of Cambridge made sure there were two installed in the refurbished Kensington Palace. Now Berkeley Homes has slotted two into some of its larger apartments at One Tower Bridge and Goodmans Fields schemes in central London.

So the kitchen is key – especially if you want to cook up a storm when selling.

PHOTOS: THINKSTOCK

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PROPERTY

A Place in Country or Town

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Georgian splendour or the life aquatic?

COUNTRY

TOWN

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WHY? You need to ask? Who wouldn’t want to live near a 125mile matrix of rivers and lakes, mostly originally created by peatdigging locals? There are nature reserves, windmills, waterside pubs and the entertainment caused by once-a-year sailors.

WHERE? Wroxham, eight miles north east of Norwich, is regarded by some as the capital of the Broads – it’s pretty, quiet and has a beautiful 17th-century bridge. The village of Potter Heigham, 20 miles east of Norwich, is equally charming but leads to a cluster of nature reserves and wetlands which are generally less busy than the rest of the area.

WHEN? Spring is staggeringly beautiful on the Broads – but the rain at that time of year is legendary. The annual Broads Outdoors Festival (walks, sailing and rambling) is held in May; June sees the Norwich Food and Drink Festival; HOW MUCH? wait until October for Wroxham is, unsurprisingly, Porkstock (yes, seriously), the highest priced spot in the Broads with typical homes a celebration of artisan costing £434,400, according food and crafts from to Zoopla. If you want to live in the area.

Norwich itself – just a short drive from the Broads – prices drop WHO? This is about to £269,700 on average. Special as understated and homes are more but better value un-celeb than you think: Sheriff House, a seven-bedroom home near a place as Wroxham, is yours for £1.25m you can get through jackson-stops.co.uk.

– despite national treasure Stephen Fry, cooking doyen Delia Smith and entrepreneur extraordinaire James Dyson all live in the area.

WHY? With annual festivals, fantastic architecture, top schools and universities, that castle and a strong financial services sector, it’s a city laden with plus points. The luxury W Hotels chain is going to open in 2021 at the completion of the dramatic Edinburgh Rory St James scheme – a massive retail and leisure Bremner development, including 150 new homes.

WHERE? Any one of the city’s famous terraces of Georgian town houses is a must-buy. The most sought-after areas are those packed with period properties – New Town, Stockbridge and West End. WHEN? Right now is good: what’s not to like about over 3,000 comedy acts, street art and would-be thesps taking over the city centre in August?

If that’s not enough, try New Year: 150,000 gather for three days of special events, including a torchlight HOW MUCH? Hogmanay procession.

So much cheaper than that other WHO? JK Rowling has a capital, London. Zoopla says the city-wide average is £265,000 place here, as does Irvine after a modest one per cent ‘Trainspotting’ Welsh, Gail rise in typical prices in the past Porter, cyclist-turned-race-driver year. This elegant five-bedroom terraced townhouse includes Sir Chris Hoy and impersonator a self contained one-bedroom and comic Rory Bremner.

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apartment and is on sale for £1.65m through savills.com.

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DING DONG

BEST OF BOTH WORLDS Though you can be in the centre of Cambridge in 30 minutes by car, this village is more Camberwick Green than 21st-century city living.

The house itself is equally picturesque, an old 17th-century cottage with a steep, half-hipped thatched roof straight from a storybook, and a garden filled with heritage English plants. Inside, however, it has had a modern makeover with high-spec fittings. West Thatch, Barrington, Cambridge, £1.175m, Savills, 01223 347147

This grand, eight-bed gothic home has its very own belltower. The Latin inscriptions above the main entrance and bay windows, however, hint at the identity of its original owner, the Bishop of Zululand, which dates the building much later than it looks, to 1903. Barbecues on the terrace would be all fire and no brimstone, serving fish caught on the property’s 225 metres of single bank fishing on the River Tone. Bradford Court, Bradford on Tone, Somerset, £1.75m, Strutt & Parker, 01392 229405

Country Our pick of the best country houses on the market this month

ESCAPE TO THE COUNTRY What’s on the checklist for that dream house in the country? Georgian good looks perhaps, with lofty ceilings, a long driveway and sash casement windows.

Or how about grounds that boast both Italianate and kitchen gardens, orchard and woodland. Watkins Farm ticks off all those prerequisites, plus it has a separate rose-covered cottage that has permission to let it as a holiday home – so that’s your country business sorted too. Watkins Farm, Holwell, Sherborne, Dorset, £1.45m, Humberts, 01935 812323

FOREST HAVEN

This old farm knows how to turn on the charm, with plum period features and far-reaching views across the New Forest National Park, best enjoyed from the terrace. The real problem with the property is that you will find few excuses to leave its confines, particularly as it includes a home office separate from the main house, a heated swimming pool and stabling for your ponies. Tile Barn Farm, Brockenhurst, Hampshire, £1.595m, John D Wood, 01590 540051

PRETTY POLLY

It’s hard not to be Pollyannaish about this grade II listed cottage, which is as cute as a button, complete with foxglove planted picket fence, open hearths and weathered beams. Modern adaptations include a sunny orangery that looks out onto the lawn, boarded by pretty flowerbeds.

Its snoozy hamlet location is just another plus point for those looking to retreat.

Pollyanna Cottage, Little Ann, Andover, Hampshire, £760,000, Carter Jonas, 01962 842742

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HAPPY FAMILIES

Families will love this Queen Anne home for its bountiful space, summer days spent by the swimming pool and its location – in the ‘hamlet’ of Petersham, on the edge of Richmond Park and a fiveminute walk from the river. The additional two-bedroom coach house would work well as a home office, with additional accommodation above for guests or grown-up children. Box Cottage, Sudbrook Lane TW10, £4.15m, Savills, 020 8614 9136

BIG LEAGUE Rugby fans will hanker after this house, and not just for its proximity to Twickenham stadium – it also happens to be the current home of Australian legend Michael Lynagh. Situated in the exclusive St Margarets Trust Grounds, it also has access to 12 acres of secure, residents-only gardens. The set-up here is for big families – lots of space for entertaining, a big kitchen dining room and a cinema room for watching the Six Nations in style. Graff House TW1, £6.25m, Knight Frank, 020 8939 2800

Town Our pick of the best town houses on the market this month

PRIME PROJECT

This is a rare opportunity to acquire a detached, double-fronted freehold house on one of the most prestigious roads in Chelsea. Clad in mature wisteria, it looks better suited to life on the village green. The downside? It has been home to the same family for 30 years, so the décor is a bit dated but you’d want to develop the basement anyway, which has already been granted consent by the local authority.

Astell Street SW3, £8.5m, Knight Frank, 020 7591 8600; Russell Simpson, 020 7225 0277

DESIGN GEM

EXPANSION PACK And now one for tennis fans, a seven-bed home that’s just the other side of Wimbledon Park from the All England Lawn Tennis Club.

Classic and spacious, it has a massive garden by London standards. If you’re of the view that the bigger the better, there is planning permission to add a side extension and a basement adding 3,200 sq/ft to its existing 5,102 sq/ft. Home Park Road SW19, £5.35m, Robert Holmes & Co, 020 8947 9833; Savills, 020 8971 8111

Locally listed as a ‘building of merit’, Vitruvius & Co has taken the original Cambridgeshire gault brick linked house and given it a magazine-worthy makeover, including a super hip bespoke kitchen kitted out with Gaggenau gadgetry, landscaped courtyard garden and light-flooded dining room. You won’t want to bring a speck of your old house with you. Walham Grove SW6, £3.595m, Strutt & Parker, 020 7731 7100

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ICONIC LISTED TOWNHOUSE st leonards, exeter Stunning Georgian townhouse in a prime residential area of Exeter  close to private schools  6 reception rooms  5 bedrooms  5 bathrooms  separate 1 bedroom detached coach house  landscaped gardens to the front and rear  garaging and off-street parking for several cars

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1 AN EXCEPTIONAL COUNTRY HOUSE IN A TRULY IDYLLIC SETTING taplow, berkshire 5 reception rooms ø 5 bedrooms (3 en suite) ø 2 further bathrooms ø Lutyens-based design ø triple garage block ø landscaped grounds and formal gardens ø about 4.4 acres ø 588.8 sq m (6,338 sq ft) ø EPC=D

Savills Windsor Charles Elsmore-Wickens cewickens@savills.com

01753 307389

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1 A MAGNIFICENT NEW BUILD MANSION ON A PRESTIGIOUS PRIVATE ESTATE cobham, surrey Triple height reception hall ø grand drawing room with bar ø formal dining room ø bespoke kitchen/breakfast room ø family room ø study ø opulent master suite ø 5 further bedroom suites ø separate staff flat/annexe ø triple garage ø south facing landscaped gardens of about 2/3rds of an acre ø 852 sq m (9,176 sq ft) ø EPC=B

Savills Cobham Louis Winterbourne lwinterbourne@savills.com

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1 EXCEPTIONALLY DESIGNED PROPERTIES BY SWEETCROFT HOMES woodstock road, oxford, ox2 Drawing room ø study ø open plan kitchen/dining/family room ø master bedroom suite with fitted furniture ø 5 further double bedrooms ø cinema room ø additional family room ø utility room ø larder ø driveway parking for several cars ø fully landscaped south-west facing garden and patio ø 432 sq m (4655 sq, ft)

Savills Summertown Paula Cardosi pcardosi@savills.com

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Cambridge, Great Shelford

Guide Price ÂŁ2,950,000

An exceptional family home, full of character and history with over 5,000 sq ft of versatile accommodation Cambridge: 3 miles | Great Shelford Station: 0.25 miles | M11 Junction (N&S): 3 miles | Stansted Airport: 23 miles Main house: 5 Reception rooms | Kitchen/breakfast room and utility | 5 Bedrooms | 3 Bathrooms | Victorian entrance conservatory | Large barn/family room | Garages | Workshop | Landscaped gardens and parking | One-bedroom cottage | Self-contained annexe | EPC: D About 0.83 acre Belinda Holmes-Smith Cambridge Office | 01223 459 500

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A charming late Georgian character house located within walking distance of Parliament Hill fields. The accommodation is primarily arranged over two floors. Master bedroom with en suite bathroom, 4 further bedrooms, family bathroom, double reception room, dining room, kitchen, playroom, utility room, WC, cellar, front garden and rear garden. EPC: E. Approximately 372.71 sq m (4,012 sq ft).

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CLIVEDEN PLACE, SW1W

SLOANE COURT EAST, SW3

A bright and spacious two bedroom apartment located a stone’s throw from Sloane Square. The property comprises two double bedrooms, ensuite bathroom, shower room, large living room and fully fitted kitchen. Further benefits include wood flooring, access to beautiful communal gardens and a caretaker.

A meticulously refurbished ground floor maisonette featuring an elegant west facing drawing room opening directly onto the communal gardens. This flat has been beautifully decorated and furnished in an elegant contemporary style with excellent bathrooms and a modern kitchen. It has the advantage of being comprehensively wired for audio/video/data/telephone communications. It is conveniently located close to Sloane Square Underground, local shops and restaurants.

TWO BEDROOMS - ENSUITE BATHROOM - SHOWER ROOM RECEPTION ROOM - FULLY FITTED KITCHEN COMMUNAL GARDENS - PORTER

£900 per week

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DR AWING ROOM - KITCHEN/BREAKFAST ROOM - MASTER BEDROOM (ENSUITE BATHROOM) - 2ND DOUBLE BEDROOM (ENSUITE SHOWER ROOM) CLOAKROOM/UTILITY - STUDY AREA - STOREROOM INTEGR AL MUSIC SYSTEM - DIRECT ACCESS TO COMMUNAL GARDENS

£1,450 per week

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WILTON PLACE, SW1X

This charming modern house is quietly located in a private mews with parking. This unique house is currently being refurbished and will be presented once complete beautifully designed and decorated throughout with excellent bathrooms and a fully fitted kitchen.

Superb fully refurbished family house which has been completed to an extremely high standard. The property is ideal for family living and has excellent entertaining space which includes a good sized dining room along with fabulous first floor drawing room and cinema room. The property has a west facing garden which leads onto an off street parking area.

There are also two good sized terraces with far reaching views. The house is located close to all the amenities of Knightsbridge and Belgravia and within a stone’s throw of Hyde Park.

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£682 per week

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£4,950 per week

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MALLORD STREET, CHELSEA, SW3 In the heart of Chelsea, the former home and art studio of the late acclaimed portraitist, Augustus John. This recently newly restored, redesigned, extended and reconfigured house, with an exquisite one of a kind studio reception room, has just been refurbished throughout to the highest of standards. This special property is offered exclusively to the lettings market on an unfurnished basis. It comprises approximately 5,100 sq ft. and it is located just off the Kings Road.

6 Bedrooms · 4 Bathrooms · Double entrance lobby · Kitchen · Studio reception room · Dining area · Mezzanine gallery · Multi-media room Study Room · Temperature controlled wine cellar · Staff kitchen · Pantry · Utility room · 2 Cloakrooms · Paved Garden · Approx. 5,100 sq ft · EPC E Pictures as previously furnished. Available furnished by separate negotiation.

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COUNTRY HOME WITH GARAGING FOR 16 CARS – BETWEEN NEWMARKET AND BURY ST EDMUNDS, SUFFOLK A superb rural country house set in just over 11 acres of wildflower meadows, with purpose-built 16-car garage, workshops, storage and garaging for two steam engines, all with alarms and climate control, as well as 6 bedrooms, 3 bathrooms and 5 reception rooms.

Guide: £1.385 million

BEAUTIFULLY PRESENTED COUNTRY HOUSE WITH 6.3 ACRES – NEAR BURY ST EDMUNDS, SUFFOLK A clever fusion of timber-framed farmhouse with an incredible contemporary ‘wing’ which creates a stunning ‘live-in’ kitchen/breakfast/family room. 3 reception rooms, 4/5 bedrooms and 3 bathrooms. Annexe and stabling.

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Ideal for families Finding a home that adequately fulfi ls the requirements of modern day family life in a traditional environment is not always easy but design-led developer, Bewley Homes, believes families will be impressed by its 4 and 5 bedroom properties at Hartley Row Park which have put family life at the forefront of their design.

Jane Bailey, Sales Manager at Bewley Homes, says: “We know how busy modern day family life can be. Parents often have to juggle the demands of their working lives with the responsibilities of parenthood. Finding a home which will work well around the demands of youngsters, and equally well for parents, isn’t always an easy task but, having placed great emphasis on providing a family friendly layout at our 4 and 5 bedroom properties at Hartley Row Park in Hartley Wintney, we are convinced families will be impressed.

“Each of our 4 and 5 bedroom homes here have a driveway to your double garage providing essential space which can be utilised as additional storage if desired

View to the South West from Hartley Row Park, Bewley Homes

and ensuring it is as easy as possible to navigate children, groceries, school bags and sports equipment seamlessly from car to home.

“The internal layout features an openplan kitchen / family / dining space opening directly onto the garden – a space which has been perfectly conceived for children and parents to co-exist whilst individually getting on with their own tasks such as homework and preparing supper! Our 4 bedroom show home features a separate drawing room for more formal occasions and a generously proportioned dedicated upstairs family room which can easily accommodate anything and everything a family could wish for; and the majority of plots also include a separate utility room so the mounds of laundry can be happily contained.

“Hartley Wintney, with its strong sense of community, quintessential High Street and green, will appeal hugely to families.

Not only does it enjoy the reputation of being a highly desirable English country village, but it also features a

number of superb schools and benefits from being highly accessible via road and rail (with Winchfield station only 2 miles away offering a direct service into London) putting it fi rmly on the radar of ‘commuter families’.”

Prices for a 4 bedroom family home in Hartley Row Park start at £695,000.

For more information, contact Bewley Homes on 01252 842578 or email: hartleywintney@bewley.co.uk The Marketing Suite is open 7 days a week 10am to 5pm.

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Lower Cookham Road

Maidenhead Guide Price £1,195,000

Located just a stone’s throw away from the idyllic River Thames and the village of Cookham, this exclusive, five bedroom family residence sits on a gated plot. EPC – D.

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Fryerning • Essex Essex Guide Price Guide Price £3,850,000 £3,295,000 A striking five double bedroom, four reception Located discreetly in the heart of Fryerning is this Grade II listed period property thought date back 500 years. charming Country home offeringto just under 4,000 This residence is originally thought to be 3 sq. ft.charming of living space, 5 double bedrooms, 2 en-suite cottages, now providing fantasticrooms. flow ofDetached interesting bath/shower rooms and 4 areception and lodge extensive living spacedetached over twostable floors.

The cart with family attached garage, block, 7.5 acre private plot comprises formal grounds mixed stunning woodland approach.

Planning has been sympathetically with paddocks (benefitting from apool approved for a detached pool house and swimming second separate access), pondspermitted and a substantial lake.

16/00794/FUL. Further potential development Numerous outbuildings, tennis court, double has also been submitted which would offer 1400garage sq. ft. and detached one bedroom annexe. through a two storey rear extension andEquestrian a single storey potential.

EPC Beautiful Exempt country walks to both local pubs side extension. and to the neighbouring village of Blackmore. EPC D.

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Fryerning Essex • Essex Ingatestone Guide Price Guide Price £3,850,000 £2,300,000 A striking five bedroom, four reception Grade II Constructed in double circa 2003 this stunning and substantial family listed period property thought to date back 500 years. residence offers five double bedrooms, four of which are This charming residence is originally to be 3 en-suite, four receptions, double garagethought with artist’s studio cottages, now providing fantastic flow of interesting above, planning permissionafor a substantial orangery to the and elevation extensiveand family livingunique spaceformal over two floors.

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Guide Price ÂŁ1,650,000

A unique and rather special opportunity to purchase this fine Grade II Listed Edwardian residence in this most enchanting location about 1 mile to the South of the city boundary. This wing of this grant Edwardian house extends to about 3000 sq ft with a wealth of attractive features together with its own private grounds which extend to about 1.8 acres of formal gardens and woodland.

Accommodation comprising: Entrance hall, reception hall, cloakroom, W.C, drawing room, study/family room, dining room, kitchen, breakfast room. First floor galleried landing, master bedroom with ensuite, 3 further bedrooms, bathroom, w/c, garage and storage barn.

Duxford, Cambridgeshire

Guide Price ÂŁ1,250,000

Pynes House is a most impressive and substantial Grade II listed detached Georgian residence with exceptionally well presented and versatile accommodation over three floors with meticulously maintained and well stocked landscaped gardens also benefiting from a 3 bay cart lodge and self-contained studio/annexe.

Accommodation comprising: Hall, 2 reception rooms, kitchen, cloakroom, 5 bedrooms, dressing room, shower room and bathroom.

Annexe comprising: Hallway, 2 offices, kitchenette and cloakroom.

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Toft, Cambridgeshire

Guide Price ÂŁ985,000

A beautifully presented and well proportioned brand new detached residence of significant style and quality in this most attractive non estate location with views to the rear over adjoining countryside. The property extends to about 2300 square feet with detached garage and enclosed gardens.

Accommodation comprising: Reception hallway, family room, living room, kitchen/dining/sitting room, garden room, study, utility room, W.C, galleried landing 5 bedrooms, dressing room, 2 ensuites and bathroom. EER: TBC

Chipping, Buntingford

Guide Price ÂŁ825,000

Stunning and substantial barn conversion of exceptional quality and individual style occupying a delightful position backing onto farmland in this prestigious courtyard style scheme, so conveniently placed for the commuter within easy access of mainline stations at Royston, Baldock and Ashwell as well as major routes including the A10.

Versatile and well-proportioned accommodation including Entrance hall, cloakroom, living room, kitchen, utility room, games/family room, ground floor master bedroom with en-suite shower room and walk in wardrobe. First floor landing/study area, 2 bedrooms, bathroom.

Secondary staircase to first floor guest room with en-suite shower room. Enclosed gardens and generous courtyard style parking area. EER: TBC

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Hassocks, West Sussex £2,500,000 Freehold A Grade II listed six bedroom home in 16.61 acres at the foot of the South Downs.

Hyde Park, W2 £4,500,000 Freehold A refurbished four bedroom Grade II listed town house with three bathrooms.

Hamptons Haywards Heath 01444 360054

Hamptons Hyde Park & Bayswater 020 7723 0023

Hyde Park, SW1X £6,450,000 Leasehold A three bedroom apartment situated on the second floor with stunning views. EPC: C

Wadhurst, East Sussex £2,795,000 Freehold Enjoying a secluded position, set within beautifully landscaped gardens. EPC: C

Hamptons Sloane Square 020 7717 5481

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