Listening to the land
AS a niece of the 10th Duke of Rutland, Libby Russell is no stranger to beautiful landscapes. Born Elizabeth Manners, she grew up on the Belvoir estate in Leicestershire and at Haddon Hall in Derbyshire and it was this sense of the beauty of her surroundings —an amalgamation of the light, the views and the colour of the stone particular to a place—that she and her husband, Alexander Russell, were searching for when they began looking to relocate in about 2001.
‘We’d been living near the coast in Kent,’ says Mrs Russell, one half of Mazzullo + Russell Landscape Design, ‘but the land there was very
