Country Life 8 January 2020
Country Life 8 January 2020 looks at flatcoated retrievers, the nation's myths and legends and celebrates Beethoven.


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FLATCOATS: A celebration of the retrievers that never grow up.
SNOW QUEEN IN SCOTLAND: The National Ballet north of the border have brought the folk tale to life.
MYTHS AND LEGENDS: Amy Jeffs on the oldest tales our island has to tell.
BROOCHES: If you like it then you ought to put a pin in it.
SEEING RED: Interiors have a bright new trend.
QUINTON OLD RECTORY: Kendra Wilson visits the Northamptonshire gardens.
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TOM PARKER-BOWLES ON HIS FAVORITE DISH: The incomparable charms of Dover sole.
MODERNIST MASTERPIECE: Tim Richardson visits a striking home on the Cote d'Azur.
TORTURED GENIUS: A look at 250 years of Ludwig van Beethoven.
Country Life is unlike any other magazine: the only glossy weekly on the newsstand and the only magazine that has been guest-edited by His Majesty The King not once, but twice. It is a celebration of modern rural life and all its diverse joys and pleasures — that was first published in Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee year. Our eclectic mixture of witty and informative content — from the most up-to-date property news and commentary and a coveted glimpse inside some of the UK's best houses and gardens, to gardening, the arts and interior design, written by experts in their field — still cannot be found in print or online, anywhere else.
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21 of the greatest craftspeople working in Britain today, as chosen by the nation's best designers and architects
We've persuaded some of the most celebrated names from our Country Life Top 100 to name the craftspeople they have in their own personal little black books.
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The garden created by a forgotten genius of the 1920s, rescued from 'a sorry state of neglect to a level of quality it has not known for over 50 years'
George Dillistone’s original Arts-and-Crafts design at Knowle House, East Sussex, has been lovingly restored and updated with contemporary planting. George Plumptre tells more; photography by Clive Nichols.