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Go with the float: This pioneering amphibious home from 'Grand Designs' is for sale
3+ hour, 21+ min ago (16+ words) Country Life...
How this apartment in the historic heart of London went from underwhelming white box to somewhere with comfort, character and sense of place
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (209+ words) Carefully conceived joinery and a collection of artwork and ceramics have transformed this London pied-à-terre. Having picked up the keys to what Studio Vero’s co-founder, Romanos Brihi, describes as a ‘white box’, his client felt rather underwhelmed by her purchase....
The French Capability Brown meets English-style design in this German garden
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (289+ words) A jewel in Germany’s crown: there’s more than a hint of the fairy tale about Schloss Dyck in the Rhineland. On a recent trip to Schloss Dyck in Germany’s Rhineland, south-west of Düsseldorf, I had been expecting Thomas Blaikie to…...
'They will never be for the purists': The relentless, referential and upbeat joy of postmodern buildings
6+ day, 1+ hour ago (278+ words) As many of postmodern architectures finest buildings enter their fourth decade, Jack Watkins makes the case for why this often overlooked architectural style warrants further study. The interior space of No 1 Poultry is a mishmash of style and colour. Despite…...
Athena: The best stage for contemporary art is inside our historic houses and gardens
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (285+ words) Claydon House in Buckinghamshire is hosting a new exhibition by White Cube gallery. Last month, Athena visited Claydon House, Buckinghamshire, which this year is the setting for a new venture organised by the National Trust with the contemporary art gallery…...
'We cracked the padlock and found a mountainful of asbestos, so that wasn't ideal': The secret spaces in our finest country houses
1+ week, 6+ day ago (1041+ words) Secret spaces in country houses continue to thrill and spook us in equal measure. Framed by spiky palms and overlooking the teal expanse of the Salcombe estuary in Devon, Overbeck’s, an Edwardian country house currently under renovation, harbours a secret…...
'I sent my husband to buy a dining table. He came back with a vast statue of a lady on a horse': Oka founder Sue Jones on her first house in the country
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (373+ words) Sue Jones, co-founder of the hugely successful interiors company Oka, on her beautifully secluded house in the country. A remote spot in the Cotswolds. A barn at the top of a valley that was built in 1730 and first converted in…...
What do Rihanna and a 19th century vegetarian activist have in common? This sprawling Tudor house that American money couldn't save
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (659+ words) Melanie Bryan traces the history of Cassiobury House — and its bohemian inhabitants. In the 17th century, the sprawling Tudor pile had sprouted 'new' wings, designed by Hugh May and decorated with early examples of woodcarving by master craftsman Grinling Gibbons in…...
'A trailblazing illustration of how a historic estate can thrive': Doddington Hall's confident march into the 21st century
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (448+ words) Fig 1: The garden front, much as it was in the 1590s.. The Act authorised the mortgage of Ford and gave control of Francis’s remaining property to his younger brother, John. Doddington, meanwhile, remained a possession of the brothers’ widowed mother, Rhoda....
Louvain-la-Neuve: What happens when you combine Cosmic Brutalism, high Modernism and the Catholic church
2+ mon, 20+ hour ago (141+ words) When the Catholic and French-speaking population of Leuven were forced to find a new university, they built their own in a unique, almost operatic architectural style. 'It is funny to think of conservative Francophones strolling around Cumbernauld, a robust new…...