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    Catriona Gray is a journalist and author, and a regular contributor to Country Life. She has written for House & Garden, the World of Interiors, and the Financial Times, and was commissioning editor at Town & Country and Harper’s Bazaar. Catriona specialises in writing about heritage design, lifestyle and crafts, and lives in an 18th-century folly in Sussex. 

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    It sounds like a secret spy agency, but the Florilegium Society is actually a part of one of London’s oldest botanical gardens and they’re on an ambitious quest to record 5,000 plants.

    • Jill perfects a highly polished gunnera-leaf piece at the Hampshire foundry. Credit: RIchard Cannon for Country Life

      The foundry where Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and Nic Fiddian-Green cast their bronzes

      One of the oldest foundries in the world, Morris Singer in Hampshire has a long and storied past, creating art and sculpture for everyone from artists to dictators.

      By Catriona Gray Published 29 July 24

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      Paper houses: The Somerset artists turning books into model country homes

      Each of us has treasured memories of our home, past or present. Catriona Gray meets artist Ele Grafton, who captures these individual stories using vintage books and documents.

      By Catriona Gray Published 25 March 24

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