Art Deco, with its exuberant passion for geometry, luxury and shiny chrome, cocooned troubled times in a layer of glitz. A century after the style gained its name, Gavin Plumley surveys one of the ...

Blue skies and rising mercury cause have been a theme of this summer, but there are always those who thrive and those who struggle in unusual times.

Jenkins, faced with the colossal challenge of illustrating Homer's 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey', eschewed grandstand views ...

For this kitchen on the Sussex coast, Isabella Worsley dispensed with a classic seaside palette and turned to rich colours ...

Alas, the age of the hot hatch is reaching something of a nadir. Environmental targets and petrol-powered performance ...

Every Monday, Melanie Bryan, delves into the hidden depths of Country Life's extraordinary archive to bring you a long-forgotten story, photograph or advert.

As summer temperatures continue to soar, fans — long considered a fashion anachronism — are back in the style spotlight.

The first new Morris & Co. designs in a century were developed using archive materials discovered inside a Californian ...

Pay a visit to the gardens at Glenarm Castle in Co Antrim — home of Randal and Aurora McDonnell — is hard to credit that ...

Ritson has just returned to Great Dixter for the first time in years — and it's 'the high point of all my garden visiting for ...

Sennowe Park in Norfolk is the home of Charles and Virginia Temple-Richards, the descendants of trailblazing travel agent ...

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