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COUNTRY LIFE’S Little Green Book
NAVIGATING what’s green—and what’s not—when it comes to choosing what we’re dishing up, decorating with or deciding to live alongside is like traversing a trip wire, as businesses seek to burnish their 21st-century credentials. Fortunately, among the
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The Legacy
ALTHOUGH he joined his father in the family business of farming, David Austin (1926–2018) dreamed of roses and, in particular, of creating the perfect English rose. This would have that old-fashioned ‘charm and beauty’ that had been all but lost in t
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Friends In High Places
PILAR ORDOVAS began her career with a Lucian Freud quest. In 1996, she was a young hopeful, starting work at Christie’s at the very same time the auction house was selling an important painting by the artist, a portrait of John Deakin from 1963–64. ‘