Country Life

Published by TI Media Limited Country Life, the quintessential English magazine, is undoubtedly one of the biggest and instantly recognisable brands in the UK today. It has a unique core mix of contemporary country-related editorial and top end property advertising. Editorially, the magazine comments in-depth on a wide variety of subjects, such as architecture, the arts, gardens and gardening, travel, the countryside, field-sports and wildlife. With renowned columnists and superb photography Country Life delivers the very best of British life every week.

Mrs Zoë de Givenchy • Zoë is the founder and creative director at Z.d.G, a homeware brand that celebrates craftsmanship and French art de vivre. Her latest collection of tableware is inspired by the Potager du Roi at Versailles, France. Zoë is the daughter of John and Jan Couper of Melbourne, Australia.

United we stand

Country Life

Town & Country

Town & Country Notebook

Stuff & nonsense

Letters to the Editor

Rural lives matter

Athena • Cultural Crusader

My favourite painting Iain MacGregor

Country-house treasures

Ruling the waves • The buildings created to accommodate the Admiralty Board during the period of Britain’s domination of the seas are not well known. Billy Hurley Reading reveals their interest and quality

The legacy • Gilbert & Sullivan and the Savoy Operas

Get ready for rush hour • Exuberant and versatile, rush in all its forms is as much of a friend to wildlife as it is to artisans, finds Laura Parker

Deep thinking • Weaving alongside the ‘living’ London Underground is a ghostly parallel network of abandoned stations, former wartime hideouts and astonishing subterranean architecture. Emma Hughes steps back in time

Hide and squeak • Yes, we put a man on the moon, but have you ever seen a community of mice peruse a miniature bookshop, asks Harry Pearson

Flour power • Largely beholden since the 1960s to industrially produced wheat, British bakeries are beginning to fall in love with ancient and heritage crops. Tom Howells meets the pioneering growers and makers going against the grain

Grin and square it • Check prints are a classic for autumn, believes Amie Elizabeth White

The designer’s room • This sitting room in a newly built house on Exmoor has been lent a timeless feel by a fossil-stone fireplace

Bright ideas • Wall lights for every setting, selected

The West awakes • Glenthorne House, with its Gothic grandeur, fascinating backstory and sweeping sea views, is one of a raft of exciting new launches, which demonstrate that the sometimes sedate West Country scene is stirring

West is best • Why not move to the West Country, where the living is easy and the cottages are characterful, charming and comfortable?

To boldly go on • Twenty-five years after Tim Smit built a garden of futuristic plant-filled biomes in a disused clay pit, James Alexander-Sinclair says we should expect even more brilliant surprises in the coming quarter century

Fringe benefits

Kitchen garden cook Apples

Taking a chokehold • A remarkable fungi that forms a symbiotic relationship with our grasses, choke is a constant source of wonder, reveals John Wright

Happy Flete • Sophia Money-Coutts visits the West Country estate where everyone moves to the rhythm of the tides

Art and Seoul • Reinterpreting outside influences in their own key, Korea’s artists and craftsmen mastered celadon porcelain, developed a metal moveable type and embraced ‘true-view’ landscape painting, as a British Museum exhibition reveals

On the hoof • Satyrs, with their caprine horns and legs, smaller fauns and mighty centaurs bedazzled Greek and Roman...