| 单词 | country house |
| 例句 | “It’s my friend Nigel’s family’s country house. He had me here in the summer as a guest, and no one is using it, and—I knew the gate code, didn’t I?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Beyond him up the shady driveway is a three-story country house, a wide verandah all the way around it. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The affirmative reply I received with much relief, since it was inconceivable that my sister could think about settling in Denmark after two weeks of an eccentric country house. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z El Jefe keeps all his girlfriends out in his country house, where his wife never goes. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Dewey knew that even if he were to snare the mur-derers the next day, Marie would not change her mind—for once an awful fate had befallen friends who lived in a lonely country house. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They wanted to find a country house close to New York City, but in 1943 the color line was still a barrier. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z They had just returned from motoring in a friend’s Rolls to a celebrated country house near Bedford. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z The family maintains at least eight country houses, according to books by his former chef and a former bodyguard. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z If driven from their country house, there was but one safe refuge for them—behind the British lines in Boston. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When a disgruntled servant informed Dona Zaida about the changes in her country house, she descended on the ranch in a fury and restored the villa to its former state. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He had his own furniture there, brought out from the country house, but he’d chosen it carelessly and it was an atrocious mix of styles, upholstery, light and dark woods. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z On July 3, the day before the Society of the Cincinnati dinner, he had a dinner party of his own at his new country house, the Grange. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Also it was very much a country house, surrounded by fields and rural walks. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Ana looked smug as she reported, “He has invited me — and you, of course, Mother, and Clara as well — to visit him at his country house in Royal Forge. For an entire week!” Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z After being released from prison, I set about plans to build a country house for myself in Qunu. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He even managed to minimize the inconvenience, finding a class ten minutes from his country house. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Inside, the rooms were almost empty—a large, once elegant country house stripped of all but a few mats, an altar in one comer of the first room, a funeral urn. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Clara did her part as well, praising the elegance of his handwriting when Ana showed her his letters, and Lady Isobel could find no fault with his country house — or his considerable fortune. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “Did you have a bad time? I mean, aside from the rain, no Stonehenge, no country house, no sheep? Aside from the fact that it was a day of disaster upon disaster?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The Perkins place was one of those ratty old country houses you moved into because you had no decent place to go and moved out of as quickly as you could. Bridge to Terabithia 1997-10-21T00:00:00Z He won thousands, he threw thousands away, lost money, lost jewels, lost a country house, won again, lost again. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z And he appointed one of the laborers and his wife and children to live in the country house and to care for the two old opium dreamers. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z A borrowed jacket and tie, however, made me superficially presentable as our bus driver let us out in front of the huge country house. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z His parents, in their 80s at first took shelter in the basement of their building in the downtown area, before driving to a small country house about an hour from the city. Alexei Ratmansky, With Family in Kyiv, Leaves His Ballet in Moscow 2022-02-27T05:00:00Z They don’t understand that it’s a country house hotel. Pro tip from the Greenbrier’s interior designer: Embrace color and shun beige 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z He abandons that pleasant country house and goes looking for a lost city in South America. New & Noteworthy 2018-02-27T05:00:00Z Sometimes it’s a country house standing forlornly in a field, or a mansion in Ontario where the focal point is the architectural details, or a house in Nantes, France with an Old World vibe. The Abandoned Houses of Instagram 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Summer will see a surge of visits to museums and galleries, to country houses and parks, to dales and peaks, to old villages and towns. We all care about beauty ? why don't politicians? 2010-04-08T07:06:00Z The idea was to introduce the ball to younger patrons who would dine in an English country house setting and mingle with the big donors coming from the embassy dinners. How money muscled out power on Washington’s A-list 2016-12-07T05:00:00Z The period drama is set in a fictional Yorkshire country house and follows the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants. Can Downton Abbey village cope? 2012-09-14T13:33:48Z Chef/owner Christopher Czarnecki’s artistic creations showcase mushrooms, truffles and other seasonal Oregon fare in an elegant, romantic country house. Watching wine happen during Oregon’s annual grape harvest 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z AD: How did you find the homes seen in the movie, particularly the contemporary beach house and traditional country house? The Sets of 2013-12-23T05:00:00Z The colossal booty amassed, valued at more than £1 million, included numerous artworks, quite a number of which are now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Royal Collection and various country houses in Britain. Special Report: Asian Art: How Maritime Routes Led to Cultural Exchanges 2011-11-04T13:00:10Z Both my parents had been servants in a big country house in Gloucestershire, which had a moat around it and a drawbridge. Barry Miles: 'I think of the 60s as a supermarket of ideas. We were looking for new ways to live' 2010-03-20T00:06:00Z And why, having arrived at a well-appointed country house, is he asked how much he knows and how he knows it? My favourite Hitchcock: North by Northwest 2012-08-03T16:45:00Z One year, an old country house was sheathed in hundreds of circular mirrors — no two the same size, all a reflection of the natural world around them. 'Art Place Japan' tracks a triennial's rural transformations 2015-11-28T05:00:00Z By far the largest art college in Britain is that supplied every day by guides to museums and country houses, most of them volunteers. We all care about beauty ? why don't politicians? 2010-04-08T07:06:00Z The country house has been arranged in congruence with one of Sasha’s fondest childhood memories, when he vacationed at a colony of bungalows catering to Russian immigrants like him. Gary Shteyngart’s Pandemic Novel Is His Finest Yet 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z This was TV drama as comfort blanket: at a time of austerity, Julian Fellowes’s country house epic offered elegantly realised solace in the homilies of the past. The 100 best TV shows of the 21st century 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z “Well, that’s an awkward subject matter for me, because I know all of them,” Mr. Cavett, 81, said on a recent sunny Thursday afternoon at his sprawling country house in Connecticut. Dick Cavett in the Digital Age 2018-08-04T04:00:00Z Here, for the only time in the movie, Song lingers over a physical space, in this case a handsome, sunlit country house, a home. ‘Past Lives’ Review: Longing for a Future 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z He keeps two bags of baby Snickers in the freezer at his country house at all times, a sweet reminder that it’s the weekend. A Cookbook of Artists’ Creative Summer Desserts 2018-06-22T04:00:00Z The revelry and recovery take place in the grounds of Ballinlough Castle, a 17th-century country house, just over an hour’s drive from Dublin. 20 great boutique music festivals Europe summer 2019 2019-05-01T04:00:00Z For many of her aristocratic contemporaries in the 1920s and 1930s, the Edwardian country house was the heart of that world. Partying, hunting, shooting 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z A country house nestles in the middle of a vast miniature snow-scape. Before I Sleep 2010-05-07T20:35:00Z The new Broadway comedy “The Cottage” begins with a pair of lovers in an English country house in 1923, the morning after their annual illicit tryst. How to Squeeze a Feminist Farce Into an English Country House 2023-07-05T04:00:00Z They actually created a film set at Yeltsin's dacha, his country house. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z He reluctantly assents to her invitation to visit a country house for a weekend getaway. Movie Review: ‘Love Sick Love,’ Directed by Christian Charles 2013-04-18T22:57:11Z Speaking in a hushed voice, Ms. Nitoslawska provides a skeletal biographical portrait while wandering around her subject’s handsomely lived-in country house, and peeking into rooms and old diaries that slowly bring a life into focus. Movie Review: ‘Breaking the Frame,’ a Documentary About Carolee Schneemann 2014-01-30T23:59:53Z The only problem his partner recalled discussing with him in his final week was how to find transportation for a visit to a friend’s country house. The Life of Tobias Wong, Designer 2010-06-25T22:17:00Z This country house midsummer ball and garden party is very different from what you may expect from such an event, with literature, art and crafts. This week's new events 2013-06-15T05:00:33Z Here, she plays the statuesque chatelaine of a grand but oppressively gloomy country house. Nicole Kidman’s top 10 films - ranked! 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z You see, actors like the praise and the knighthoods, the money and the country house. AUDIO: Why do actors love mafia dons? 2011-08-03T08:51:38Z Eve Chase’s specialty is country houses with dark histories. Review | The best new audiobooks include a 30-year-old novel that’s as timely as ever 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Between those last two came Images, set in a remote Irish country house, and closer in spirit to Bergman’s Persona or Polanski’s Repulsion. My streaming gem: why you should watch Images 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Many locals escape to their country houses, but those who remain in the city spend as much time as possible outdoors — an easy feat since water and parkland make up almost two-thirds of Stockholm. 36 Hours: 36 Hours in Stockholm 2011-06-02T18:35:29Z If you want real estate titillation — either of the Mediterranean grand hotel or the English country house variety — you’d do better on Zillow. ‘Rebecca’ Review: A Classic Tale, but There’s Only One Hitch 2020-10-21T04:00:00Z Among his conclusions: Libraries were a part of the country house earlier than generally thought. The most beautiful libraries you’ve never seen 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z A kind of "Big Chill" for millennials, the film is about college friends reuniting at a country house after one of them attempts suicide. Jesse Zwick follow in filmmaker dad Ed's footsteps? Nah ... well ... 2014-08-19T04:00:00Z The death of the country house should not be as conclusive as that of some of the others. Downley House – review 2013-03-24T00:06:06Z And, at the family’s country house, preparations for a meal were accompanied by a Schubertian violin sextet. The ‘Succession’ Soundtrack Is Fit for a Concert Hall 2023-05-25T04:00:00Z Like most other country house operas, it is funded entirely by ticket sales and donations, receiving no government money. A Key to Opera’s Future May Lie in England’s Past 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z How come no comparisons with "Upstairs, Downstairs", like who was the better butler, Hudson or Carson, or a comparison of Liberal and Tory households, city and country houses, etc.? ‘Downton Abbey,’ the Good, the Bad and the Forgotten 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z It is one of several so-called country house operas around Britain. A Key to Opera’s Future May Lie in England’s Past 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z Later, as a married couple, the two opened their exotic and warm apartment and Connecticut country house to uptowners and creative professionals, with Mr. de la Renta honing his skills at entertaining and decorating. Oscar de la Renta, fashion designer, dies at 82 A community dance party breaks out after a rehearsal held in an abandoned lot; a parrot swoops onto a podium; a white horse appears in a country house living room. ‘Mozart in the Jungle,’ an Amazon Series 2015-01-18T05:00:00Z She plays Margot Mason, an old-school feminist scholar holed up in her country house, trying to barrel through writer’s block on a new book. Theater Review | 'The Female of the Species': She?s So Under the Gun, She Can?t Leave Her Desk 2010-03-01T05:40:00Z “I know him as a civilian,” Gay Talese said at the TriBeCa party; he owns a country house next to Mr. Carter’s in Litchfield County, Conn., where the editor spends weekends with his family. Graydon Carter, the Last Impresario 2014-02-28T22:40:19Z We met in their country house, in Burgundy, and worked for a month, all day, every day, with only the occasional expedition, to show me some Burgundian site. They Know Russian. I Know Plays. Would That Translate? 2018-09-10T04:00:00Z There’s no denying the narrative elegance of outback noir: Like the grand country house in English whodunits, the bush town allows a small cast to be trapped in place as secrets and vendettas are unsnarled. Murder in the Brain-Broiling Heat and Red Dust of the Outback 2022-07-21T04:00:00Z For Architectural Digest’s 2007 visit to the fabled country house, click here. AD Remembers: Deborah Duchess of Devonshire 2014-09-24T04:00:00Z Francis Fleetwood, a popular East Hampton, New York–based architect whose romantic country houses appeared in the pages of Architectural Digest over the years, died on May 8 at age 68. AD Remembers Francis Fleetwood 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z For all its mouth-watering sets, costumes and repartee, the highfalutin soap known as “Downton Abbey” followed a well-worn path in the theater of the English country house. A garden the ‘Downton Abbey’ crowd would drool over 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Blanche, the fluffy white cat in this bonkers Japanese horror classic, is all purrs when seven schoolgirls encounter her on the train on their way to a country house holiday. Purr evil: cats with hidden agendas – ranked! 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z The mechanics of the social country house novel are similar: a remote location, misunderstandings and dark secrets are its cogs and wheels. The deep foundations of the country-house novel 2011-02-01T10:31:28Z “Oh, but wouldn’t it be marvelous if they were all, even the servants, all of them in love with the wrong people,” she declares, “the way it was said to happen on country house weekends.” An Irish Refuge for Two Royal British Sisters 2020-01-14T05:00:00Z Each summer, at their country houses in Northern Bohemia, the Smetanas learned at least one new Czech work. Antonín Kohout 2013-02-26T18:12:07Z Sherman Her dream was to get a country house. Recalling Sarah Charlesworth’s Photographs 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z The history of the Georgian era isn't just about country houses and Jane Austen heroines. My best bit of historic Britain: historians' and authors' top tips 2012-08-17T21:45:07Z The debut of a polished new saga concerning successive occupants of a forbidding country house. Tonight's TV highlights: Human Planet 2011-02-03T07:59:02Z At one point, she invites him to her family's country house. The invention of Obama 2010-04-23T23:06:00Z This dynamic is not new — this is how fancy country house gardens were put together a century ago. Why we need horticulturists 2014-12-09T05:00:00Z The country house and its assembled antiques were imported to the city apartment. Her Party 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z A gaggle of siblings in a big country house with absent parents, plus a governess, cook and nurse, is usually the recipe for a great romp. Tin Toys Trilogy by Ursula Holden – review 2013-01-19T19:00:08Z Amateurish country house farce, dusted off to cash in on the recent celebrity of co-star Miranda Hart. This week's new films 2013-03-30T06:00:10Z Listeners learned of her appearance tonight when Caroline Sterling, owner of the Grey Gables country house hotel, revealed plans for the special guest. Archers addict Camilla makes Ambridge cameo 2011-02-02T19:29:39Z Driven out of Oxford by angry neighbors and nervous university authorities, Coupland and his team relocate to a crumbling country house straight out of the horror-cliché handbook. ‘The Quiet Ones’: Horror flick is more creaky than creepy 2014-04-24T22:08:21Z Set in England in 1923, the comedy is set off by the revelation of an extramarital affair that brings a group of interconnected people together at a country house. Jason Alexander Will Direct a Comedy on Broadway This Summer 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z But Ricardo Withers, a salesman in the gift shop explained: “Unlike in beachside or country houses,” where such work is normally found, “we display them as luxury items — design items.” Going to Rio for the Olympics? Squeeze These Places In. 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z The idea, said J. Patrice Marandel, the museum’s chief curator of European painting and sculpture, is to evoke the way art was displayed in Roman palaces or English country houses. 2010-01-08T04:36:00Z It shows a handsome room in a Norwegian country house, all gleaming surfaces and clean-lined furniture, illuminated by chandeliers. Review: In Richard Eyre’s Production of ‘Ghosts,’ the Clean Parts Are the Most Disturbing 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z These are enacted in dialogue that, by Mr. Bartlett’s standards, often feels surprisingly banal, as if recycled from a century’s worth of country house dramas. On London Stages, Britain Considers Its Divided Soul 2017-11-13T05:00:00Z At this late date any English country house novel, however formally traditional, must be highly self-conscious if only by default, and like The Stranger’s Child, is very aware of itself as a second-order fiction. The Tragedy of the English Country House 2012-05-02T10:45:56Z There are occasional entries about literary friends like Elinor Wylie, or Millay’s political causes, but a good deal of it concerns the changing seasons at Steepletop, Millay’s beloved country house in Austerlitz, N.Y. In Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Diaries, the Private Life of a Celebrity Poet 2022-04-15T04:00:00Z At a country house, in 1935, eight women gather to discuss love, violence, gender and philosophy. 10 Plays and Musicals to Go to in N.Y.C. This Weekend 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z Robert Altman had a dream, about a woman going mad in a country house. How Susannah York fell to Earth after the wars of the English roses 2011-01-18T10:52:13Z But Blaker told no one the name of the country house or of the seller. Lost diaries help solve "young Mona Lisa" mystery 2012-10-08T17:16:31Z The country house surrounded by flowers where they lived outside Medellín, Colombia; the home at the beach in Oman where their eldest son learned to snorkel. This American teacher also sits in a Russian jail, worried nobody cares 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z If you go into an English 18th-century country house you will know the difference between north and south in the feel of old rooms. Maggie's cancer care centre, Newcastle – review 2013-05-18T23:05:22Z Executed in oil on panel, Mr. Walker’s latest paintings depict rooms in the Haining, a majestic 1790 country house in southern Scotland that now offers artists’ residencies. Art in Review: Richard Walker: ‘House Paintings’ 2012-12-27T22:03:20Z The beds were selected by London stage designer Joyce Evans, who sets the country house scene in 24 decadent rooms spread among a historic farmhouse, a grand Victorian, and a series of cottages. These Are the World's Most Romantic Hotels 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Michael was a self-described homebody who was happiest playing with his dogs at his country house, but his career brought him into contact with music and fashion’s biggest stars. George Michael Preferred Music to Fame. The Doc He Made Does, Too. 2022-06-21T04:00:00Z She moves into an isolated country house and takes up her role as an attentive Artificial Friend. Review | In Kazuo Ishiguro’s ‘Klara and the Sun,’ a robot tries to make sense of humanity 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z Stay at very reasonable prices in the villages or in comfortable country houses: a wonderfully authentic experience of popular culture. 10 of the best winter festivals in Europe: readers’ travel tips 2019-10-24T04:00:00Z “I quite deliberately wrote it as an English country house novel,” he said, “only instead of strolling around on the lawns, people were getting together up on the roofs.” ‘Another Great Day at Sea’ Details Life on Aircraft Carrier 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z Ms. Simmons plays a woman, stalled in her personal life and artistic career, who spends a month in a borrowed country house to regenerate. Influenced by Her Children, Laurie Simmons Exits Her Comfort Zone 2018-04-27T04:00:00Z And it brings to life the social and political machinations of the Georgian era, most of all the new elite’s cementing of power and status through Italianate country houses filled with Grand Tour souvenirs. Art Review: ‘William Kent: Designing Georgian Britain’ at Bard 2014-01-02T22:03:54Z The chilly, exacting Upper West Side socialite has gathered a circle of sycophants at her Connecticut country house to witness her gnashing her veneers over the recent election of Donald Trump. The Plight of the Aggrieved, Rich Manhattan Liberal 2020-10-13T04:00:00Z Could it be that the country house novel is currently seeing something of a resurgence? The deep foundations of the country-house novel 2011-02-01T10:31:28Z The first, written in the aftermath of the death of Kipling's daughter, describes an isolated country house in which the ghosts of dead children congregate. A brief survey of the short story part 41: Rudyard Kipling 2012-06-21T11:28:42Z Add train interiors, a country house, a New York office, a dingy flat, and more - plus a blaze. Critics applaud Strangers stage play 2013-11-20T12:58:45Z Box office: 020-7452 3000 Now, in his mordantly funny new play, he shows a South Yorkshire country house and its upper-crust owners being similarly turned into a part of the heritage industry. People – review 2012-11-08T01:07:23Z It’s set in a country house, where the same murder keeps happening over and over again. Sophie Hannah: By the Book 2018-08-02T04:00:00Z The guilt may be what motivates Harper to get out of London and stay at a "dream country house." "Men" is Alex Garland's glossy, gendered fever dream that bewitches as much as it befuddles 2022-05-20T04:00:00Z My mother was into country houses and country living. Paula Sutton Answers Our Hill House Questions 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z We are in a recording studio during an especially messy session and in the rambling country house where Becky takes refuge after everything falls apart. ‘Her Smell’ Review: The Road to Rock ’n’ Roll Transcendence Goes Through the Gutter 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z A brand new opening scene shows a group of veteran amateur actors, the Bunbury Company of Players, rehearsing Wilde's classic comedy in a country house. Nigel Havers recaptures his youth 2014-07-19T04:00:00Z Opera endeavours in the north, such as the "country house" seasons at Castle Ward on Strangford Lough, have tended to be short-lived, whether for reasons of finance, political difficulties or lack of interest. NI Opera Shorts – review 2012-07-07T23:05:46Z City dwellers of means escaped to the suburbs or country houses; millennials moved home with parents; downsized workers moved to find work or lower-cost living. We Want Our Friends Back! (But Which Ones?) 2021-03-27T04:00:00Z As the hapless hero who goes to work in a remote country house owned by Mr Knott, McGovern reminded us that Beckett was, among many other things, one of the great Irish humorists. Dublin theatre festival takes the recession seriously 2010-10-11T15:44:00Z Coutts says the house was organised into "clusters of activity, like country house wings". Lottery winners seek 'Serenity' with £5m des res with serious mod cons 2013-04-18T12:36:03Z I’ve stayed in houses that were in the country, and in England, but I’m still not sure that I’ve stayed in an English country house. The Tragedy of the English Country House 2012-05-02T10:45:56Z As it must in any decent Austen adaptation, the story more or less takes care of itself, as the action shuttles between London and various country houses. Review: In ‘Love & Friendship,’ Austen Meets Whit Stillman 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z Strong says the exhibitions changed opinions about country houses, "removing the 'us and them' divide". Roy Strong attacks galleries for safe choice of 'endless Renoir' and Bowie 2013-01-19T15:46:47Z Those who argue that government must protect their own aesthetic patch, be it opera, Raphael, a country house or a rural vista, must want public opinion on their side. We all care about beauty ? why don't politicians? 2010-04-08T07:06:00Z Dogs and horses, a country house, a suitable match — a comfortable but uneventful life — seemed her future. Elizabeth the Steadfast: Queen marks 70 years on throne 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z They lend paintings that would otherwise be stored in bank vaults or on the walls of seldom-visited country houses. T Magazine: Succès Fou 2012-10-03T23:02:54Z For example, Act II, as written, opens in a country house near Paris, where Alfredo and Violetta have been living for three months. Opera Review: A Modern ?Traviata,? Where Time Keeps Ticking 2011-01-02T17:15:26Z “I don’t need country houses, expensive jewelry, expensive cars, special collections of whatever.” Why Do Pianists Know So Little About Pianos? 2020-11-12T05:00:00Z But most papered walls need a trim of some sort, especially those lacking a cornice, among them the dining room of my country house. A Fresh Take on Wallpaper Borders 2014-08-08T04:00:00Z Besides a London mansion, Turner kept a modest country house 10 miles southwest of the city in Twickenham that he designed, where he and his father relaxed, fished and entertained. An Effort to Save J.M.W. Turner’s Country House 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z Once the excitement of the coronation had fallen away, ballgowns stepped out of the spotlight and returned to the grand country house ball. Belle of the ballgowns: a guide to the V&A exhibition 2012-05-18T21:52:01Z He lived in a large country house decked out with towering piles of ancient Daily Telegraphs. Rewind TV: Martina Cole's The Runaway; Bored to Death; Spiral; Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 2011-04-02T23:09:39Z They were going to be country house books. Howard Jacobson: 'I've been discovered' 2010-10-13T17:14:00Z The tradition soon moved to other fashionable drawing rooms and then to teahouses, hotel dining rooms and lawns of country houses. What does Mom want for Mother’s Day? Tea, nibbles — and time with you. 2015-05-03T04:00:00Z The grueling process took years, and often involved separating himself from people from his old drug milieu and holing up in his country house in New Jersey, where he explored tai chi and Eastern philosophy. Who Was the Real Lou Reed? 2015-10-31T04:00:00Z As it is, the London-based arts fund-raiser and social campaigner is preparing for the upcoming country house opera season, which she treats as a natural complement to the performances in prisons that she also leads. Opera impresario flits from country house to prison 2010-05-10T17:34:00Z In this sense, the country house functions in much the same way as a pub in a soap opera. The deep foundations of the country-house novel 2011-02-01T10:31:28Z The enormous country house was not such a good idea, either. At Home With Moby: A Castle for the King of Techno 2011-04-28T03:00:42Z The history of the expensive and disruptive royal visit echoes the British aristocracy’s changing fortunes, from the heyday of the English country house to its decline in the interwar era of “Downton.” ‘Downton Abbey’ and the History of Difficult Royal Visits 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Neame was a fan of that ensemble drama, set at an English country house in the 1930s where a party of wealthy Brits and their servants convened for a shooting weekend. Fans are up for 'Downton Abbey' starting season 4 2014-01-02T15:40:23Z The androgynous collections drew inspiration from Virginia Woolf's 1928 novel "Orlando," a tale of a gender-shifting aristocratic poet, and from British interior designer Nancy Lancaster's English country house designs. Burberry inspires nostalgia, Christopher Kane elevates Crocs 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Until the 19th century, only a select few ever stepped foot in these large country houses. ‘Downton Abbey’ and the History of Difficult Royal Visits 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z Holm, in his summer country house with his wife and children, recalls driving home recently while listening to a radio show about the Icelandic national character. Why Iceland? L.A. Phil's Reykjavik Festival highlights amazing music coming from an unlikely place 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Set within the grounds of a country house in the South Downs it is recognised globally as one of the great opera houses. Win tickets to Glyndebourne and a champagne picnic for two 2013-05-10T12:30:00Z The book features essays on the changing role of the country house as well as a frank discussion of enslaved people and their roles at these estates. Perspective | The ‘Downton Abbey’ movie trailer is out. What to read while you wait for the film. 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z The kind of clothes perfect for a nation collectively preparing to jump out of its Land Rover and head to a country house ball. Burberry’s Alternate Fashion Reality 2022-03-11T05:00:00Z In the meantime, the investigation takes Bayard to a swim club, a country house, a swanky Manhattan restaurant and the laboratory of a half-mad scientist. Rounding up some unusual suspects: Michael Dirda’s mystery book picks 2017-04-25T04:00:00Z It consisted of paneled walls and the facade of an elegant country house. On the Runway Blog: Fashion Designers Awards Show Hits Its Stride 2013-06-04T04:42:52Z So is the Glass House, the extraordinary country house he created for himself beginning in 1948 in New Canaan, Conn., now a museum owned by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. A New Biography of the Architect Philip Johnson, the ‘Man in the Glass House’ 2018-12-20T05:00:00Z Another way in which the Beth Chatto Gardens broke the mold was that, instead of surrounding a grand country house, the plant borders enclosed the the Chattos’ modest bungalow. A garden movement loses a leader 2018-05-22T04:00:00Z Three episodes in, the links between the three different families who have lived in the titular country house are becoming more convincingly strengthened and interestingly twisted. Tonight's TV highlights 2011-02-17T08:00:02Z In this production, when the bombs fall at the end of the Prologue, there's a realisation that the opera is not actually going to be performed on stage in the country house. Glyndebourne 2013: Kate Lindsey on Ariadne auf Naxos 2013-05-15T18:00:05Z The curtain opens on the nursery in a country house. Colette's libretto: a fantasy of childhood for Ravel's opera of enchantment 2012-07-27T21:49:01Z The tradition of the country house story is a lengthy one. The deep foundations of the country-house novel 2011-02-01T10:31:28Z It, too, depicted the bruising dynamics within a family of similarly haute-bourgeois intellectuals at a New England country house. | 'We Live Here: ?We Live Here? by Zoe Kazan at City Center - Review 2011-10-13T02:01:11Z She lost her beloved country house due to capitalist machinations. Struggling to Love, Work and Do the Right Thing in Putin’s Russia 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z When they actually meet, seven years later, Chanel offers the penniless composer and his family the use of her palatial country house – with benefits a tacitly acknowledged extra. Film review: Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky 2010-08-05T21:03:00Z Fry will voice Sir Simon de Canterville, the spook who has been haunting Canterville Chase, an English country house full of the requisite gloomy oak panelling and tarnished suits of armour. Cannes 2012 diary: Cate Blanchett to star in lesbian drama Carol 2012-05-18T14:35:44Z We see them — a ménage à trois for a dozen years — on the vast lawn of the country house that they shared in New Jersey. Lincoln Kirstein: A Modern Tastemaker With Some Iffy Taste 2019-03-28T04:00:00Z It is heroic, and playful, and enjoyable, which is more than you get in most country houses built in the past 75 years. Downley House – review 2013-03-24T00:06:06Z The egg-and-dart motif became a stalwart of late-Georgian decoration, and the famous Palmyrene rose began to appear on the ceilings of many a grand English country house. Stones that speak 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z At the end of the grounds, a river flows, which, if followed for a little over three miles, leads to the country house of her fellow Belgian designer Dries Van Noten. Ann Demeulemeester Doesn’t Miss Fashion at All. She Has Other Plans. 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z She is followed by a naked intruder, and in another sequence, Harper is stalked in the country house. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z Photograph: BBC In the first episode of Whites, the new comedy about the kitchen staff of a country house hotel, someone locks a chef in the fridge. Chef Norman Mackenzie on Whites 2010-10-03T21:30:00Z Still, the agitated punch lines connect pretty frequently as Posner moves the action across set designer Daniel Conway’s comfy-looking country house, with its grassy path at one edge and a mossy roof overhead. Sibling drama gets a Chekhov twist in ‘Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike’ 2015-04-12T04:00:00Z I found Harper makes herself very clear with wanting Geoffrey, the caretaker at the country house to leave, but he does not get the hint. Alex Garland on birth as horror in "Men" 2022-05-22T04:00:00Z The great country houses of Britain were built with resources siphoned from the colonies, and the use of slaves was central to the accumulation of capital, as Edward Said notes in Culture and Imperialism. Stranger fiction 2011-08-01T11:53:49Z The chances for the salvation of the country house are extreme, convincing, and all deplored. People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z Coutts says the house is "organised into clusters of activity, like country house wings". Lottery winners seek 'Serenity' with £5m des res with serious mod cons 2013-04-18T12:36:03Z Would country houses descend into immediate ruin; brass bands and choirs fall into oblivion; would-be farmers leave their crops to rot; over-ambitious building projects collapse? Expert view 2010-03-18T13:57:00Z Photograph: Tate Images The scene shows an idyllic, dewy morning, with boatmen at work on the lake – and, pale in the background, the palatial country house where the artist, JMW Turner, kept his brushes. Petworth House hosts exhibition showing Turner's views of Sussex 2013-01-10T18:46:53Z He would stare at the pictures of the two of them at his cousins’ country house taken a few summers later. A Simple Question That’s Too Hard to Answer 2019-11-29T05:00:00Z A country house murder mystery, it combines a plot worthy of Agatha Christie, dialogue almost as good as PG Wodehouse and action as absurd as Monty Python. The Borrowers; The Mouse and His Child; Robin and His Merry Mam!; Dial M for Murgatroyd 2012-12-23T00:04:15Z A leading proponent of the so-called American English country house style, Mr. Buatta was at one point the country’s most famous decorator. Remembering the Marvelous, Maddening Mario Buatta 2018-10-20T04:00:00Z Adolfo is certainly sufficiently monstrous in his cynical calculations, as we see him sizing up Pina’s business and little country house with an eye for his future comfort. DVD: Preminger?s ?Anatomy of a Murder? on DVD 2012-03-09T17:00:00Z A disintegrating country house in South Yorkshire is splendidly conjured up in Bob Crowley's design, with a bar fire and beautiful objects peeping out from swags of protecting fabric. People; Uncle Vanya; Uncle Vanya – review 2012-11-11T00:06:04Z The auction will include property from Astor's Manhattan apartment and her country house in Westchester County. Jewelry, art from NYC's Brooke Astor to be sold 2011-12-01T18:12:07Z His most expensive indulgence was Chartwell, the country house with a spectacular view over the Kentish Weald that bewitched him on sight in 1922. Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer by Peter Clarke – review 2012-07-20T07:00:04Z Old-world elegance persists at this Grade II–listed English country house, located 20 miles southeast of London in the village of Farningham. On the Market: A Georgian Country House Outside London 2014-02-27T05:00:00Z The inventory is organized somewhat chronologically, starting in the 1770s, and subdivided into subjects like British country house contents, dolls, garden statues, Judaica, jewelry and Nazi loot. Antiques: Vintage Auction Catalogs With Personal Provenance 2014-01-30T22:37:18Z Turns out, Sir Francis Goldsmid — the first Jew to become an English barrister — had bought the statue and taken it to his country house in Gloucestershire. Museum acquires statue, complete with glitter, nail polish 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Schjeldahl, reached recently at his country house in the Catskills, said he was nervous before reading the book. A Daughter, Her Father and the Long-Gone Poet Who Brought Them Together 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z An old friend invited me to spend a weekend at a country house in Surrey where Fr Raynes would be giving talks to restless agnostics and atheists. My hero: Nicholas Mosley on Fr Raymond Raynes 2012-09-28T21:55:10Z Under the guise of getting another hemp-seed cookie, I leaned over and read my neighbor’s goals: run a marathon, do yoga teacher training, buy a country house. Yoga, spinning and a murder: My strange months at Lululemon 2013-12-31T12:47:00Z The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture. Downton Abbey Returns to America: Writer Julian Fellowes Tells All 2012-01-06T09:59:10Z “Cries and Whispers” takes place almost entirely inside a stately mansion, as “Autumn Sonata” is set inside a country house. | 'Cries and Whispers': ?Cries and Whispers? at BAM - Review 2011-10-26T21:27:23Z He lives alone with his father, Guy, in a large, ramshackle country house not far from Newcastle. The Quarry by Iain Banks – review 2013-06-14T06:28:54Z In the play a group of friends gathers at a country house outside Moscow to celebrate the 40th birthday of Ms. Blanchett’s character, Anna Petrovna. Blanchett to Make Broadway Debut in Play Directed by John Crowley 2016-01-27T05:00:00Z Previously known only through a copy in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace, plus a contemporary black-and-white engraving, the much-admired work was spotted languishing in a country house by a Christie’s auction expert. The Getty just announced its most important drawings acquisition in 20 years—and adds a 'Surprise' 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z It is not know if Ullmann plans to stick to the play's original setting – a Swedish country house in 1874 – or rework it for a different period. Jessica Chastain to star in film version of Miss Julie 2013-01-31T13:01:49Z He’s the heir to a giant country house. The Unholy Pleasures of “Grantchester,” The Original Hot-Priest Show 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z Residents were on vacation or away at their country houses. What Do Anna Wintour and Bob Dylan Have in Common? This Secret Garden 2016-09-28T04:00:00Z This power couple is supposed to be enjoying a restful weekend in the bucolic Cotswolds, but a fatal road accident and a series of suspicious deaths swiftly shatter the peace at their host’s country house. What’s in the Murder Book? Marilyn Stasio Wants to Know. 2019-10-18T04:00:00Z The skill of the display has been to put these clothes into an English country house setting, without weighing down the scenario with traditional furnishings. A Celebration of Dressing Up 2012-05-21T12:30:29Z Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images Vast country houses built for leisure and the display of status must adapt to the demands of a new age – or die. The Devonshires by Roy Hattersley – review 2013-05-18T14:00:02Z To some, the country house operas are not only steeped in the romantic history of upper-crust England, but, ironically, may also provide a glimpse of how opera may survive. A Key to Opera’s Future May Lie in England’s Past 2022-07-02T04:00:00Z He entered into what he describes as a “most rarefied world,” of sumptuous country houses and gilded repartee, feeling “like Alice in Wonderland.” The Importance of Being Astonished 2011-01-09T02:00:58Z The 93-room-and-suite hotel, which began life as a country house, is within walking distance of Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace and Westminster Abbey, putting guests at the center of the royal action. 5 London Hotels Where You’ll Get the Royal Treatment 2023-04-04T04:00:00Z Rory Kinnear stars as university museum curator Mr. Williams, who receives an engraved picture that appears to show simply a country house at night. New this week: ‘Don’t Look Up,’ new ‘Matrix’ and ‘Sing 2’ 2021-12-20T05:00:00Z Some were torn down, others abandoned: in the 12 years to 1930 more than 180 country houses were destroyed. Partying, hunting, shooting 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z It is also possible to visit the Flaubert Pavilion, a small country house in Canteleu, about 15 minutes outside Rouen, where Flaubert lived and wrote for 35 years. Overnighter: Near Paris, a City of Flaubert and Joan of Arc 2013-08-08T19:59:58Z The programme follows the life of the Crawley family and their domestic staff at their country house. Downton set for festive edition 2011-01-17T15:26:11Z Deciding they need a break, they flee their chic city apartment and drive to their country house that night. My streaming gem: why you should watch Images 2020-04-06T04:00:00Z Again, an unnamed narrator, another governess, a different manuscript that claims to tell the story of mysterious country house, a widower and his children and two ghosts of former servants of the house. Kate Mosse's top 10 ghost stories 2010-10-27T10:24:00Z When reached at his country house in Dorset, in South West England, he was pleased about the show’s 12 nominations this year, if a bit surprised: Fellowes had entirely forgotten the announcements were coming today. Emmys 2014: Julian Fellowes celebrates "Downton Abbey" 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z His aim, taking advantage of the area’s woodsy character, was to create the atmosphere of a country house. A Free Hand 2010-11-01T04:00:00Z She has always been a gifted self-publicist, inviting endless magazines and newspapers into her country house and appearing on the front of Hello! with Daisy when she married Goffey in late 2008. The Saturday interview: Pearl and Daisy Lowe 2011-04-01T23:05:38Z In the former capital of Mahébourg, the National History Museum has crammed a 1772-built French country house with everything from antique beds to nautical wreckage to a dodo display. In Mauritius, Secluded Beaches, Verdant Hills and Harmony 2017-08-16T04:00:00Z Sunday afternoons feel so much slower at my parents' house, an old two-story country house on a hobby farm in Southern Manitoba that has been remodeled more times than I can count. "Dear Father" letters and DNA tests 2021-12-05T05:00:00Z The Tuscan countryside — all bright-green hills and quiet country houses — rushed past the train window, a welcome sight after Venice’s abundant shuffling bodies. Seeking slice-of-life authenticity in Italy’s most touristy cities 2018-12-19T05:00:00Z Only a fraction of all country houses, mansions and estates was destroyed. Partying, hunting, shooting 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The perfect middle-class family lives the perfect life in the perfect country house. Bouquet of Barbed Wire 2010-09-07T07:00:00Z That would be enough to get me to my country house.” Disaster Go-Bags of the Famous 2011-11-29T01:19:59Z Both Love's Labour's Lost and Love's Labour's Won, usually known as Much Ado About Nothing, will be set in the same country house before and after the war. RSC double bill to commemorate WWI 2014-02-04T14:02:23Z Sondheim, who had spent much of the pandemic at his country house in Roxbury, Conn., died in Connecticut on Nov. 26. Stephen Sondheim Leaves Rights to His Works to a Trust 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z And while he says that locals lucky enough to have a country house with a pizza oven can indeed make it, "it's pretty difficult, otherwise." Socca is the crêpe of the Mediterranean South 2022-10-01T04:00:00Z The title character is a bored dandy from St Petersburg who inherits a country house. Eugene Onegin: unchain my heart 2013-01-02T19:30:04Z This dance to the music of time, set in a Derbyshire country house, is not just Tom Stoppard's best play, but one of the most compelling plays of the last 50 years. This week's new theatre 2010-09-17T23:06:00Z The loosening bonds between family, mansion and local community meant the country house was changing, but it was not dying. Partying, hunting, shooting 2016-05-05T04:00:00Z The original score was virtually lost, scattered through various libraries and country houses. The Duenna's 230-year elopement 2010-09-29T21:00:00Z We understand the tribulations of the great British country houses as the country creaked into the twentieth century: thieving footmen, deranged ladies’-maids, and troublesome romances between under-butlers. The Stunning Grounds, and Tragic History, of the Lost Gardens of Heligan 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Regular throwers of irregular country house soirees, next up is this ruthlessly romantic get-together. Clubs picks of the week 2011-02-05T00:05:39Z Mouhot wrote of cottages with fruit gardens and country houses for the aristocracy “who come here in the evening for the sake of breathing a purer air than they can find in the city.” In Cambodia, Along the Path to Something Profound 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z For example, she asserts more than once that after World War I, detective fiction turned completely cozy and retreated to the English country house. “The Art of the English Murder” is a great read, but light on historical sources It was just, I don’t know, a weird degenerate country house. At Home With Moby: A Castle for the King of Techno 2011-04-28T03:00:42Z She sold her country house in Connecticut, paid off her debts and moved from the meatpacking district to Fort Greene. Serena Bass’s Life Spent in the Main Course 2013-04-17T23:03:58Z For “Odd Blood” the band decided to work in a rented country house. 2010-01-30T00:57:00Z Bordeaux is beautiful in the spring, and our country house has a pool. Home Exchange 101 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Born into a wealthy family, Fleming once stayed in the country house, Higham Park, where Zborowski built the cars near Canterbury in Kent, she said. Ian Fleming's magical Chitty car flies again 2012-03-08T16:41:14Z And in a twist on the star-crossed-lover plot of many of the works performed at the festivals, staging opera and running a country house are in many ways a match made in heaven. For Opera Fans, a Grand Day Out 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z Instead, he just takes a quick trip to a country house. The Equalizer review – Denzel Washington: ordinary guy, cool killer 2014-09-09T04:00:00Z Indulging all the romantic excesses of the gothic revival, the country house is an entangled mass of towering arches. Lucy Skaer, Lowry, Vermeer: the week's art shows in pictures 2013-06-21T12:00:00Z The third episode, “Some Hope,” set at an elaborate country house party where the guests await the arrival of Princess Margaret, is more of a social satire in the “Gosford Park” vein. Benedict Cumberbatch Just Crossed the Last Role Off His Bucket List 2018-05-03T04:00:00Z Later, at their country house, she works at a large convex interactive touch screen for illustrators. TV review: Black Mirror; Penguins - Spy in the Huddle 2013-02-11T23:05:01Z Secluded in a dilapidated country house, their depressed mother in a room upstairs, the teenage siblings at the center of this hypnotic novel mull a sinister deed from their past. 11 New Books We Recommend This Week 2020-10-08T04:00:00Z Balding's new autobiography lovingly depicts her family's contagious love affair with boxers, in particular, Candy, a dog so loyal it jumped out of the top window of a country house to protect its mistress. Why we're barking about TV dog shows 2012-10-10T14:17:00Z This is a country house that has been made up, and is being remade up now. Brighton festival – review 2013-05-11T23:07:30Z And so here I am, near Arundel in West Sussex, at a large, rambling country house with lush gardens, on a weekend vedic retreat run by Beeja. ‘No sex please, we’re meditating’: peace and positivity on a weekend retreat 2019-10-23T04:00:00Z “Today I sketched the preliminary plans for a large country house which will be erected in one of the most beautiful residential districts in the world,” it reads in part. A Photographer Follows Paul Revere Williams Into the West 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z More pertinent to Thoma's purpose, however, is the fact that British country houses were used in wartime either as nursing homes or, as at Glyndebourne, to house refugees. Ariadne auf Naxos – review 2013-05-19T16:00:01Z He holed up with his large family at his mother’s country house. Alexander Skarsgard’s Viking Dream 2022-04-14T04:00:00Z In the mid-19th century a New York lawyer built Wave Hill, a country house in what is now Riverdale, in the Bronx, just across the river, which offered a wondrous view of those cliffs. Weekend Miser: A Guided Tour at Wave Hill 2012-11-15T20:50:48Z The collection filled shelves and tabletops in Ms. Stern’s apartment and country house. Antiques: William Matthew Prior, War of 1812, and Queen Victoria 2012-05-24T22:08:36Z There is even a special planning policy designed to encourage a new era of country houses. Downley House – review 2013-03-24T00:06:06Z But there’s something different about actual, genuine English country houses, and by that I mean the ones in novels. The Tragedy of the English Country House 2012-05-02T10:45:56Z Rehearsals took place at a beautiful country house and lasted three weeks. Emily Woof 2010-03-21T00:08:00Z Added to which, Glyndebourne is an obvious place for Ariadne: the idea of a country house putting on an opera as an evening entertainment. Glyndebourne 2013: Sir Thomas Allen on Ariadne auf Naxos 2013-05-15T18:00:04Z Inverleith House, to 3 Oct Let There Be Sculpture, Salisbury The New Art Centre, in the grounds of the 19th-century country house Roche Court, is best known for names such as Barbara Hepworth. This week's new exhibitions 2010-08-06T23:05:00Z Their charmed existence includes a huge country house, a free nanny and friends who are forever popping over for wine-soaked parties. Review: A Cheery Portrait of Severe Disability in ‘Breathe’ 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Beaton entertained society at his succession of country houses and frequently photographed the royal family. A Style-Minded Filmmaker at Home With Family Treasures 2017-10-10T04:00:00Z It is not evidence enough, on its own, of a resurrection of the country house tradition, but that probably won't be of great concern to its inhabitants and architects. Downley House – review 2013-03-24T00:06:06Z Where we live, in terms of our country house, it’s a rural area, very secluded. Our weirdest rockers settle down: Goodbye, sci-fi epics — hello parenting, real estate and married life on planet Earth 2015-10-12T04:00:00Z “They didn’t just buy country houses in the middle of 40,000 acres — they built vast palaces that were 15 feet away from the one next door.” ‘The Gilded Age’ Finally Arrives on HBO 2022-01-20T05:00:00Z Besides, her noblemen’s country houses offered more comfortable accommodation than Elizabeth’s own residences. ‘Downton Abbey’ and the History of Difficult Royal Visits 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z He ended up renting a splendid country house in Spiddal, County Galway. Adventures of a Waterboy 2012-06-22T16:41:33Z Two of his earliest masterpieces in oil depict a country house built by Simon Harcourt, who had served in Scotland with the Duke of Cumberland. Review: Paul Sandby, Unlikely Founder of Dazzling School of European Art 2010-04-16T12:05:00Z His parents had bought a country house in the Catalan mountains at Mont-roig in 1910, in part to help him recover from depression. A life in paintings 2011-03-20T00:08:06Z Set in 1935, at a well-appointed country house peopled with well-appointed women, the play seems, on its gleaming surface, to be straightforward. Get Ready for the Masterwork No One Has Seen 2019-11-12T05:00:00Z Production designer Simon Rogers and his team had conjured up the airless, gothic hellhole that is the opposition's headquarters within a blameless country house near Ruislip. The Thick of It: the agony of tight spaces 2012-08-26T19:00:00Z The sight of a country house on stage is enough to raise the pulse of most experienced theatergoers. Ghost of Anton Chekhov inhabits 'The Country House' 2014-06-12T04:00:00Z As he recovered, Dr. Pourfar gingerly returned to work, first practicing telemedicine from his country house, then heading into New York a few times a week. Rediscovering Wine After Covid-19 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z I certainly couldn’t run a big country house, nor could I organize the greatest show on earth. | Hugh Bonneville: Hugh Bonneville, Star of the Olympics Comedy ‘Twenty Twelve’ 2012-06-24T03:30:52Z Photograph: Virgin After setting up the first Virgin record shop in London, we scraped together some money and bought a rundown country house and converted its squash court into a recording studio called the Manor. How we made: Richard Branson and Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells 2013-05-20T16:44:32Z “But I wanted something cozier, something that felt like a country house by the sea.” Tour Giorgio Armani's Saint-Tropez Getaway 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z It’s a story so simple that it’s hardly a story—two women who are best friends spend a week together in a country house and learn to hate each other. The Best Cinema Goes Beyond Mere Storytelling 2015-09-04T04:00:00Z Photograph: Sean Sexton/Getty Images Staying at an English country house, the Edwardian viceroy of India was faced with the challenge of opening his bedroom window after the servants had gone to bed. Servants: A Downstairs View of Twentieth-Century Britain by Lucy Lethbridge – review 2013-03-25T08:00:09Z “My gut feeling is that the painting was hanging in a hallway of a country house for hundreds of years and people just neglected it,” he said. A New Rembrandt? A Dutch Art Dealer Says He’s Found One 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z In this production, the look is formal and high-gloss, with everyone wearing summer whites and looking like extras from a vintage art film like “Last Year at Marienbad” reset in an English country house. Review: ‘Twelfth Night,’ in Two Plays, Blurs Identity 2015-03-29T04:00:00Z At Villa Trianon, De Wolfe’s country house on the edge of the royal park at Versailles, she conceived a terrific glazed chamber that was part sunroom, part salon, and all relaxed glamour. AD’s Aesthete Discovers a Perfect Multi-Season Room 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z It was rescued in 1907 by the newly formed National Trust, which bought Barrington Court as its first country house and garden in its mission to protect British heritage sites. The Mansion Is Closed Because of Covid. No One Told the Deer. 2021-03-17T04:00:00Z In 2007, Frank Oz directed a mirthless black comedy with a strong British cast in which a ghastly English clan gathers in a home counties country house for the funeral of a middle-class, middle-aged businessman. Death at a Funeral 2010-06-05T23:05:00Z She was married to an aristocrat and lived in a big country house. 'Meeting new women became an addiction': one woman, 30 dates 2017-06-10T04:00:00Z My grandmother’s house is a 1740s country house, tall and whitewashed, at the end of a long dirt driveway and in the middle of acres of farmland streaked with tumbledown stonewalls. “Is there an afterlife?” Ghost-hunting at my grandmother’s house 2014-02-02T11:59:00Z Those big 19th-century Russian country houses would be pretty lonely without a large circle of lovers, losers and dreamers. Theater Review: ‘The Seagull’ in Central Park 2013-06-03T22:11:15Z She followed the English country house tradition of slipcovering her upholstered furniture every summer — in cream and blue chintz in wide stripes, or in roses printed on pale linen. Suzanne Rheinstein, Designer of Classic American Interiors, Dies at 77 2023-03-31T04:00:00Z Cocooned in his country house, Shteyngart — who suffers from asthma and was at risk of severe illness — felt both relief and guilt about being far from New York City. Apocalypse Now-ish (Cocktails, Anyone?) 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z Its hero, Leo, from a poor background, spends the summer of 1900 holidaying with a school friend whose family owns a grand country house. Ian McEwan: when faith in fiction falters – and how it is restored 2013-02-16T08:30:12Z “Murder isn’t pleasant. It’s an ugly thing and a cruel thing, and murder in the isolated country house with the snow piled up outside just isn’t real.” P.D. James, who brought a gritty realism to the British detective novel, dies at 94 She owned both a condo downtown and a country house in Vermont. Gloria: a short story by Alice McDermott This weekend of super-retro entertainment in the Essex countryside seeks to replicate the fun and grandeur of a genuine Victorian country house May Day event. Maldon Mud Race, Ely Eel Day: new events this week 2013-05-04T05:00:21Z Although he is often on the road or at a country house in Pennsylvania with his partner — also a string player — and their daughter, New York City is his base. | Mark O’Connor: Mark O’Connor, Violin Composer, Finds Inspiration in His Cave 2013-01-05T05:06:42Z “I was taken to a small attic crawl space in my mother’s country house in Connecticut by my father,” Ms. Farrow said, describing an encounter with Mr. Allen that she said occurred in 1992. Dylan Farrow Accuses Woody Allen of Abuse in TV Interview 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Downton Abbey — the country house, if not the wildly popular PBS drama — begins the show’s final season on Sunday night in a depleted state. Review: For the Crawleys and ‘Downton Abbey,’ the Beginning of the End 2015-12-31T05:00:00Z “The country house is one big dust-catcher — just ask our housekeeper — but lots of fun to live in and very comfortable,” says Waybourn. One couple’s purple house full of eBay finds and sleek condo full of almost nothing 2016-06-21T04:00:00Z Which picture tells the story of an infant's abduction from which English country house? Review Christmas quiz 2012 2012-12-21T22:55:12Z We were sharing a country house in the Catskills with some other codgers who were mutual friends, and he intrigued me despite myself. Modern Love: Age Is No Obstacle to Love, or Adventure 2013-09-12T18:12:17Z Another revelation is "Fête Champêtre," or "Country Festival," a suite of seven paintings that formerly decorated an English country house. Norton Simon: A look at the art purchase that transformed the collector 2014-10-17T04:00:00Z In preamble, set during an idyllic summer at a handsome country house near Bordeaux, we meet teenage Thérèse and her best friend, Anne, the daughter of a neighboring landowner. Marriage brings a life of privilege, misery for ‘Thérèse’ 2013-09-05T21:21:31Z In Millet’s latest novel, a bevy of kids and their middle-aged parents convene for the summer at a country house in America’s Northeast. The 10 Best Books of 2020 2020-11-23T05:00:00Z He also said he has spent time writing in what is a decidedly off-brand location, given his character’s name — a friend’s country house in Connecticut. A Shortcut to Comic Celebrity 2014-09-17T04:00:00Z Just before Christmas, in a ramshackle country house in County Wexford, south of Dublin, a Roman Catholic priest is found murdered in, yes, the library. John Banville’s New Murder Mystery Starts Like a Game of Clue 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z As we neared a country house, a woman threw open her shutters and hailed us on the road. In Italy, a poetic walk in Dante’s footsteps 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z For sale: The “Stone House,” a futuristic stone and wood country house built on 30 acres along Pecan Creek, near Horseshoe Bay, Texas. The GOP’s master plan to restore fiscal responsibility 2023-11-16T05:00:00Z A country house and museum known as the Filoli Estate, which sits about 25 miles south of downtown San Francisco, was the site of the meeting between the leaders of the world’s two biggest economies. Biden, Xi stress communication to thaw tensions between U.S., China 2023-11-15T05:00:00Z The government is hosting the event, aimed at tech leaders, academics and political leaders, at Bletchley Park, the Buckinghamshire country house that was once the top-secret headquarters of World War Two codebreakers. Sale of NHS data up to government, says tech boss 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Just past the neat vineyards and country houses with their blue shutters and tile roofs, goats munch their way through a field of thigh-high plants more typical to Sudan and India than Southern France. The Rigid World of French Cheesemaking Meets Unbound Climate Change 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z Boys arriving at the country house deep in the Worcestershire countryside were stripped of their names almost immediately. Berrow Wood: The abusive school where boys were just a number 2023-10-03T04:00:00Z Billed as the "middle-aged Love Island", My Mum, Your Dad sees eight single parents look for love in a country house. My Mum, Your Dad: ITV dating show opens up conversations about grief 2023-09-13T04:00:00Z When Greenpeace activists draped Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s baronial country house in black fabric last month to protest his energy policies, public reaction focused on the troubling lapse in security. Rishi Sunak, Behind in U.K. Polls, Embraces Divisive Politics 2023-09-04T04:00:00Z Akin is a hunter and the walls of his country house are lined with photos of the animals he’s killed. Endangered red wolves need space to stay wild. But there’s another predator in the way — humans 2023-09-03T04:00:00Z There was a problem with water seeping into parts of the country house, and some of the rooms were in a serious state of disrepair. 'I booked a last-minute flight and bought a castle' 2023-08-25T04:00:00Z The country house interior used in the final episode, “The Murmuring,” was repurposed in Episode 5, “Pickman’s Model” after having been recycled from elsewhere by Del Toro and producer J. Miles Dale. Eight visions for eight episodes of one series? 'Cabinet of Curiosities' can be cruel 2023-08-18T04:00:00Z Five people scaled Mr Sunak's country house to protest against the government's decision last week to grant 100 new North Sea oil and gas licences. Greenpeace: Government cuts ties with group after protest at PM's home 2023-08-07T04:00:00Z After that task is done each day, they pop open a bottle of wine and dance around their huge country house to the music of David Bowie and the Kinks. Reviews: An alternate WWII sci-fi drama, a spy doc and the best movies to stream this week 2023-08-04T04:00:00Z As four Greenpeace members were on the roof of the British leader’s country house, two others stood on the front lawn holding a banner with the words “Rishi Sunak — Oil Profits or Our Future?” Greenpeace demonstrators drape UK prime minister’s house in black to protest oil expansion 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z As four Greenpeace members were on the roof of the British leader’s country house, two others stood on the front lawn holding a banner with the words “Rishi Sunak - Oil Profits or Our Future?” Greenpeace demonstrators drape U.K. prime minister’s house in black to protest oil expansion 2023-08-03T04:00:00Z Emmett’s mother — who abandoned him when he was a child — has unexpectedly left him her estate, including a huge country house. Review: Propulsive and risky, 'They Cloned Tyrone' is just what you want from young filmmakers 2023-07-21T04:00:00Z Unlike Love Island, instead of a neon beanbag-filled villa in Mallorca or South Africa, they will instead reside in a country house retreat. My Mum, Your Dad: What to expect from Davina McCall's 'middle-aged Love Island' 2023-06-09T04:00:00Z The Football Association's Treatment of Injury course - a three-year undertaking at the FA's rambling country house base of Lilleshall - might suit her, he suggested. The girl in the Gang - being Wimbledon's physio 2023-05-31T04:00:00Z London’s Metropolitan Police and the Thames Valley Police, which oversee the area including the prime minister’s country house, have both had the case referred to them to investigate. Boris Johnson Is Referred to Police Over Potential New Covid Rules Breach 2023-05-23T04:00:00Z The action ranges from country houses to wayside inns to London — which, as is often the case in such stories, is not all it’s cracked up to be. 'Tom Jones' review: PBS Masterpiece's latest period drama is laid-back and enjoyable 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Liz Truss is contesting a government bill relating to her use of the grace-and-favour country house she had access to as foreign secretary. Liz Truss contests £12,000 bill over use of Chevening country house 2023-04-30T04:00:00Z Huh, said about decorating her 1820s country house in upstate New York. Artists are reinventing the stories behind traditional wallpaper patterns 2023-03-21T04:00:00Z BBC analysis found contracts with ones at airports, golf courses, country houses, the seaside, and some used for city business workers. Private firms profiting from asylum hotels, BBC learns 2023-03-19T04:00:00Z “If you put your nice country house in the middle of my of my business, I’m sorry, there’s not much I can do about that,” Mr. Bragg said. A Town-by-Town Battle to Sell Americans on Renewable Energy 2022-12-30T05:00:00Z Hogg couldn’t have asked for a better locale for her psychological drama, choosing Soughton Hall, an immaculately weathered country house built in 1714 in Flintshire, Wales, which exudes a majestic creepiness. Tilda Swinton and Joanna Hogg ask, Where does the mother end and I begin? 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Hugh Casson, who designed the interior, once recounted, “the overall idea was to give the impression of a country house at sea.” What really happened to Royal Yacht Britannia from ‘The Crown’ Season 5? 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Rather it was "components for the Metalworking of country houses." Special Report: U.S. firm supplied networking tech to maker of Russian missiles 2022-10-12T04:00:00Z The country houses tens of thousands of refugees from countries like Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan. The West Doesn’t Want More Migrants. But Rwanda Will Take Them. 2022-10-09T04:00:00Z The collection’s spring video featured a couple of lovers in a French country house seeking each other out and seemingly wearing each other’s clothes — a good theme for a co-ed fashion show. Glitzy Valentino show sees Paris Fashion Week at fever pitch 2022-10-02T04:00:00Z He laughed softly as he chatted with well-wishers, looking refreshed after a day out of public view Thursday at his country house in Gloucestershire. Despite a Life of Preparation, Charles Faces Growing Pains as King 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z Unlike most other royal residences, the Norfolk country house it is privately owned by the monarch, having originally been bought by King Edward VII and passed down to his heirs. Which of his many homes will King Charles live in? 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z He spent the weekend at Chequers, the country house that comes with the prime minister’s job, throwing a farewell barbecue for staff and friends. Where’s Boris? Johnson takes back seat as Conservatives feud 2022-07-18T04:00:00Z A wedding party for Boris Johnson and his wife Carrie will no longer be held at the prime minister's country house following criticism of the venue choice. Boris Johnson's Chequers wedding party moved after criticism 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z The earl had planned to have these ancient treasures grace Broomhall, his country house in Scotland. The Robot Guerrilla Campaign to Recreate the Elgin Marbles 2022-07-08T04:00:00Z Mr Shepherd said pupils were "very passionate" about having the event at Colwick Hall - the Georgian country house mansion, which was once the ancestral home of Lord Byron. Cost of living: Nottingham academy makes prom free 2022-07-04T04:00:00Z The 18th Century country house is set in 100 acres of gardens and is a popular visitor attraction. Which of his many homes will King Charles live in? 2022-09-16T04:00:00Z VIP guests gawped as they entered a DIOR-branded tent to discover the makeshift country vista - replete with about 19,000 real poppies, wildflowers and flora planted on hills beside two reconstructed English country houses. Stars turn out for Dior’s 19,000 blooms at Paris show 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Then off, off down the lanes to the country house.” Review | Marina Warner’s new book evokes the vanished glamour of yesterday 2022-06-08T04:00:00Z Carbisdale Castle, a country house in Sutherland with a colourful history, is on the market for the third time in six years. What next for the Highland 'haunted Castle of Spite'? 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z At the height of European colonialism, encounters with abandoned ancient sites in conquered lands inspired the building of simulated ruins in the gardens of French palaces and British country houses. Review | In the galleries: Objects of ruin build images of D.C. history 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z In London he owns Beechwood House, a £65m country house with grounds in the heart of the city, and just outside London in Surrey, he owns a Tudor mansion, Sutton Place. Russia oligarchs: The mega-rich men facing global sanctions 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z Most Roman villas, the country houses of the wealthy, had at least one colorful mosaic. World History: Patterns of Interaction 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z When his country house lost power after an ice storm ravaged Ulster County this month, he soldiered on for two days and nights before fleeing to his Harlem apartment. They fled for greener pastures, and there were weeds 2022-02-26T05:00:00Z A country house built for a duchess embroiled in a feud with her in-laws and said to be haunted by a ghost called Betty is back on sale. What next for the Highland 'haunted Castle of Spite'? 2022-05-18T04:00:00Z Dogs and horses, a country house, a suitable match - a comfortable but uneventful life - seemed her future. Elizabeth the Steadfast: Queen marks 70 years on throne 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z You can thank the English country house for that, Byers said. How many books does it take to make a place feel like home? 2022-01-03T05:00:00Z Even the former country house owners have come to feel like minority members. Integration without assimilation 2021-11-28T05:00:00Z When her family built a country house in the resort town of Hunter, N.Y., in the early 1970s, she preferred to bake in the kitchen rather than ski with her husband and children. Sylvia Weinstock, master of the luxury wedding cake, dies at 91 2021-11-24T05:00:00Z Former fashion executive Paula Sutton, of the blog Hill House Vintage, moved her family from London to a country house in Norfolk, England, because she wanted a cozier lifestyle. Want to make your home cozy? Paula Sutton of Hill House Vintage has lots of ideas 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z Lacock Abbey, one of many locations to become Hogwarts, is a country house with monastic roots and was once the home of William Henry Fox Talbot, inventor of the photographic negative. Harry Potter 20th anniversary: The UK film locations 2021-11-20T05:00:00Z This week's cabinet "away day" might have been moved from the grandeur of the prime minister's country house to the depths of Downing Street, but the agenda was still centred on one thing - "levelling-up". Michael Gove's plan to end levelling-up confusion 2021-11-12T05:00:00Z The Feast Welsh-language horror drama about a fateful dinner party at a remote country house. Virtually every movie coming to theaters and major streamers this holiday season 2021-11-10T05:00:00Z Paul and her family didn’t plan on moving to a home with a historic structure, but Paul said her family “loved the idea of having a country house in the city.” In Northwest Washington, a small community flourishes where grapes once did 2021-11-02T04:00:00Z I’m inspired by country kitchens in large country houses where the work island was a farmhouse table. Want to make your home cozy? Paula Sutton of Hill House Vintage has lots of ideas 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z He spent time at his Umbrian country house. Mario Draghi, hosting the G-20, has put Italy in enviable shape 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The foreign secretary and deputy PM had been at loggerheads over the Grade 1-listed, 115-room country house in Kent since last month's cabinet reshuffle. Dominic Raab and Liz Truss agree to share 115-room mansion 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z L’Atelier Paris’ kitchen range adds another refined, French country house element; tailored white cabinetry, a sleek white worktop and luxe upholstered chairs keep it all looking modern. Mixing traditional, contemporary decor creates sophisticated, artsy style 2021-09-05T04:00:00Z As legend has it, 4% of the British population tried to buy tickets when Oasis played the grounds of a country house in Hertfordshire, 25 years ago. Back to the mosh pit: What it means for super-fans 2021-08-28T04:00:00Z A: One of the main differences with the English country house style is that we don’t mind things to be a bit more eclectic, old, roughed up, faded and layered over time. Want to make your home cozy? Paula Sutton of Hill House Vintage has lots of ideas 2021-11-23T05:00:00Z “And they’ll be the perfect second car at your country house. Luxurious, but not pretentious. Fun, and friendly.” Embracing Vintage Cars in the Catskills 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z This was inspired by the prime minister's use of Chequers, a country house in Buckinghamshire. Dominic Raab and Liz Truss agree to share 115-room mansion 2021-10-13T04:00:00Z Gudkov was detained at his country house last week in connection with an investigation into money allegedly owed to the city for rental of office space. Russian opposition figure leaves country for Ukraine 2021-06-06T04:00:00Z Mr. Pavlov, 50, spoke at his country house on northwest Russia’s rugged Baltic coast, outside St. Petersburg. ‘My Conscience Is Clean. And Yet They Came for Me.’ 2021-06-04T04:00:00Z “We thought, ‘What if we could bring the country house and camping to the city and have all the comforts and urbanity that we enjoy?’” In Los Angeles, a Foxy Henhouse 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z It includes a country house, rebuilt in the 1930s around a cottage used by as a private retreat by George IV in the 19th Century. Trespass arrests at Prince Andrew's Windsor home 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z He also gets to use the Downing Street flat rent-free as well as the country house Chequers in Buckinghamshire. Boris Johnson flat row: What do we know about the PM’s finances? 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z She returned to Europe and lived her last years in a spacious apartment on Amsterdam’s stately Koninginneweg and in a country house in Laren. The Woman Who Made van Gogh 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z In 2019, he was given a further 12 years in jail for accepting bribes in the form of renovation work at a country house from construction companies. Lula: Brazil's ex-president cleared by Supreme Court 2021-03-08T05:00:00Z At a time when so many people are buying country homes as escapes from dense urban environments, the Measers’ home functions as both country house and full-time residence in one. In Los Angeles, a Foxy Henhouse 2021-05-04T04:00:00Z He was feted as a hero, decorated with top medals, and given a country house outside Moscow. British double agent George Blake dies in Russia at 98 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z He worked at a foreign affairs institute before retiring with her to a dacha, or country house, outside Moscow. George Blake, last in line of Cold War spies who betrayed Britain, dies at 98 2020-12-26T05:00:00Z It’s a grand, stone-built Victorian country house with bay windows and high ceilings. Landscape of fear: why we need the wolf 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z Two members of the cell, including an imam believed to have been the ring leader, died in an explosion at a country house where they were preparing explosives hours before the vehicle attacks. Three people go on trial for 2017 Barcelona terror attacks 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z He retires from the force, moves to western Ireland, buys an abandoned country house, and sets to work fixing it up. Review: French’s ‘The Searcher’ offers vivid, poetic prose 2020-10-05T04:00:00Z As well as open-source property registers, the team combs social media to snare boastful photos of yachts, luxurious vacation destinations and country houses. Alexei Navalny was once a mere annoyance to the Kremlin. His poisoning shows how much that has changed. 2020-09-11T04:00:00Z Both paintings were found in Naples in 2016 at the country house of an alleged mafia drug smuggler. Factbox: High profile art thefts 2020-08-27T04:00:00Z But France’s August ritual of fleeing cities for weeks of holiday rest on seashores, mountainsides or grandma’s country house is an added tangle. Closed for vacation: France faces new virus testing troubles 2020-08-06T04:00:00Z She repeatedly admires the way Bacon was able to embrace the company of strangers, from any social background, and was as at home in a country house as a Lyons Corner House. How dark and violent fantasies inspired the young Francis Bacon’s art 2020-07-26T04:00:00Z It’s not clear, of course, that staying in their country houses influences executives’ approach to coverage. Newsrooms Are in Revolt. The Bosses Are in Their Country Houses. 2020-06-14T04:00:00Z This is the time of year, meanwhile, when many opera-goers would usually be thinking about heading to summer festivals and country house theatres. House music: Tim Ashley's watching and listening picks 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z The daughter of a baronet, Wakefield grew up at Chillingham Castle – a large country house deep in the Northumberland countryside, an hour’s drive north of Newcastle. Quarantine article by Dominic Cummings' wife reported to regulator 2020-05-28T04:00:00Z Instead, she will most likely be spending the summer holed up in her one-bedroom apartment in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, out several thousands of dollars for a country house she cannot set foot in. Another Summer Ritual Canceled: The Beach House Share 2020-05-25T04:00:00Z This British historical drama follows the lives of the upper-class Crawley family and how they interact with their servants in the family's Edwardian country house. The 10 best TV shows to binge on Amazon Prime Video 2020-04-16T04:00:00Z In New York, people of a certain class are escaping to their country houses. A house in the country: how the pandemic exposes 'secret money' 2020-04-13T04:00:00Z Mr. Johnson, who spent three nights in intensive care at St. Thomas’ Hospital in London, will convalesce for some time at Chequers, the prime minister’s country house, the government said in a statement. Boris Johnson Leaves U.K. Hospital After Coronavirus Treatment 2020-04-12T04:00:00Z In 1953, Winston Churchill suffered a serious stroke and was spirited to his country house, Chartwell, where he recuperated in secrecy with a nurse and his private secretary bringing him government papers. With Boris Johnson in Intensive Care, U.K. Faces a Leadership Quandary 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z The way Myers tells it, “persuasion would occasionally get him to perform this ‘turn’ at country houses, much to the interest of guests”. From marble racing to balcony marathons: the sports that are filling the void | Andy Bull 2020-04-01T04:00:00Z I’m sure I’m not the only writer who fantasizes about retreating to a country house with nothing to do but curl up by a fire beside a mountain of Dickens and Dostoevsky. What to do during your coronavirus home quarantine? How about: Nothing 2020-03-17T04:00:00Z The Battle of Britain was won in the factories, not in English country houses. Review | Winston Churchill and the power of English myth 2020-02-27T05:00:00Z Built on the site of a medieval priory, Nash designed the large country house, which was enlarged into the hospital. Hospital plans may see 'irreplaceable' history lost 2020-02-28T05:00:00Z He has also written off tens of thousands of pounds that he pays for gardening at Highgrove, his country house, on the basis that members of the public were occasionally invited in. Harry and Meghan’s Big Funding Source Is Private. Sort of. 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z It's also, he jokes, "the name of my country house in Gloucestershire". Frank Skinner: ‘I’m all for a bit of moral menace’ 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z The French country house, built in 1941, sat on three-quarters of an acre and had 7,357 square feet of living space. Hot Property Newsletter: Good things, small packages 2019-12-28T05:00:00Z They live in a vast “country house” known as, yes, Downton Abbey. Opinion | ‘Downton Abbey’ reminds us what ‘conservatism’ really means 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z Trump later apologized for his diatribe and the two leaders appeared side-by-side at Chequers, the prime minister’s country house, where the American president told the British prime minister, “Whatever you do is okay with me.” Unruly, pouty and boastful: A field guide for Trump’s journeys abroad 2019-12-05T05:00:00Z He pays rent to the duchy for Highgrove, his country house. Harry and Meghan’s Big Funding Source Is Private. Sort of. 2020-01-26T05:00:00Z In 1967, a fire at his country house destroyed a portion of his second novel in progress—the much anticipated and already belated follow-up to his 1952 début, “Invisible Man.” Ralph Ellison’s Slow-Burning Art 2019-12-02T05:00:00Z Earlier this year, he was sentenced to another 12 years after being found guilty of accepting bribes in the form of renovation work at a country house from construction companies. Brazil ex-President Lula released from jail 2019-11-08T05:00:00Z Around three decades ago, George Soros was introduced to a brash property magnate over dinner at a country house in the Catskills, upstate New York. George Soros: ‘Brexit hurts both sides – my money was used to educate the British public’ 2019-11-02T04:00:00Z So when the teenage Bell visits her brother and his fiance at their country house, she recognises the signs, as does the reader. 'I was so scared I took it back to the library': the books that scare horror authors 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z The gang, who had already committed several armed robberies, had found a country house where they were going to hide Gainsbourg. Charlotte Gainsbourg: ‘Everything now is so politically correct. So boring’ 2019-10-26T04:00:00Z Carlauren promised to turn the Grade II-listed building into a care home offering residents a "high quality country house hotel experience". Stately home derelict despite millions invested 2019-10-13T04:00:00Z Nothing that happened in the privacy of a country house wedding venue on the Wirral means there will be a deal with the EU in the next seven days. Brexit talks to resume after 'promising' meeting 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The prime minister hosted his Irish counterpart for a private encounter at a country house in Wirral in the north-west of England, which they described as a “detailed and constructive discussion”. Boris Johnson and Leo Varadkar say they 'see pathway' to Brexit deal 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z Some of it's snobbery because, you know, these are often people who are not the top drawer, coming back with huge fortunes buying country houses and buying a parliamentary seat. What happens when a corporation colonizes a country? 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The film is set in a stately country house, in 1927, and the drama is divided. Villains Hog the Spotlight in “The Laundromat” 2019-09-20T04:00:00Z Entranced by an elegant aesthetic, reading countless books, even attending the Attingham Summer School to study famous country houses, I sought an elusive loveliness, untroubled by oppression. Downton Abbey, like plantation houses, delivers fantasy over brute reality | Michael Henry Adams 2019-09-21T04:00:00Z Architectural Digest takes readers inside Oscar-winning actress Anne Hathaway’s country house in California. Hot Property Newsletter: Each new homeowner adds a fresh chapter 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z Today, she said, “it’s like a country house in the city.” Bette Midler’s penthouse near Central Park lists for $50 million | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-09-11T04:00:00Z Tone-Deaf Seeking a reset after losing her job and seeing her latest relationship fail, a young millennial rents a country house from a deranged widower. 'Brittany Runs a Marathon,' 'Angel Has Fallen' and more new movies in L.A. this week 2019-08-18T04:00:00Z The same day, he was found dead at his country house, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot. Why an Heiress Spent Her Fortune Trying to Keep Immigrants Out 2019-08-14T04:00:00Z She remembers an old, ruined country house, where she was treated like an animal, not taught to speak, not knowing that she was human. Herman Melville at Home 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z Several of the aircraft were tied to scandals — such as the helicopter that whisked a senior official to his country house in 2015. López Obrador’s cost-cutting spree is transforming Mexico — and drawing blowback from bureaucrats 2019-07-14T04:00:00Z It was marching him towards a future life in a big country house, going to horse trials, hunting and shooting. Are you really the ‘real’ you? 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z In his first year of studying English and drama at Bristol University, he spent a “very memorable summer” putting on a production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the grounds of a country house. David Nicholls: ‘Could I write a book that had no love story? I don’t know if I’d want to’ 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z The abuse took place in Ludvigsen's home and country house, in hotel rooms and in his office, they said. Norway ex-minister sexually abused asylum seekers 2019-07-05T04:00:00Z Sometimes the chairs stay empty, like barely used country houses. Inside the Cultish Dreamworld of Augusta National 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z Crews are trying to prevent the fire from spreading from an annexe to the 18th century former country house, a Grade I-listed building. Large fire at historic country house 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z But as Alex sat on the train back to his country house, it was no longer clear that he had been playing. Are you really the ‘real’ you? 2019-07-06T04:00:00Z A solid-gold toilet is set to be installed in one of the UK’s grandest country houses this autumn. Flushed with success: solid-gold toilet to be installed at Blenheim 2019-05-03T04:00:00Z She is now a handsome New Yorker of sixty years and immense dignity who has retired into a French country house and solitude. Dearest Edith 1929-02-23T05:00:00Z The Aviary, a large country house in west London lying behind a substantial brick wall, has been owned by the sultan for about 40 years, as has a luxury townhouse in Leinster Square, Notting Hill. Sultan of Brunei, who passed anti-LGBT laws, owns slew of luxury UK properties 2019-04-14T04:00:00Z He is often credited with creating the “country house” style of decorating, in which deliberately faded gilding and textiles in muted hues create the illusion that a room has been maintained for centuries. The Luxury Paint Company Creating a New Kind of Decorating Anxiety 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z I want board game nights and cinema excursions and a trip to a country house … Am I becoming boring? I did dry February as well as January – and waved goodbye to hangxiety | Charlotte Church 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z While designing it, he says his guiding narrative was that of a woman who “ran away from London to the countryside … she went on this wild night out, and ended up in a country house.” Asai designer A Sai Ta: 'Everyone said I looked like an old art teacher' 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z Poirot is a guest at an Irish country house, and meets Joseph Scotcher, a character whose role can’t be described without spoilers. A Suspense Novelist’s Trail of Deceptions 2019-02-04T05:00:00Z Its main character relives a single day eight times - each time inhabiting a different person's body as he tries to work out who has committed murder in a country house. Jewish rescue biography wins Costa Prize 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z He also collects wine, mostly French, and produces olive oil from trees in the grove of his country house near Vinci. The Man Who Brought Leonardo and Galileo Into the 21st Century 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z Turns out, Sir Francis Goldsmid - the first Jew to become an English barrister - had bought the statue and taken it to his country house in Gloucestershire. Museum acquires statue, complete with glitter, nail polish 2018-12-21T05:00:00Z She spent Thanksgiving at a congressman’s country house, took a Trump campaign aide to see the rock band Styx and helped a Rockefeller heir organize “friendship dinners” with influential Washingtonians. Maria Butina Pleads Guilty to Role in a Russian Effort to Influence Conservatives 2018-12-13T05:00:00Z They tend to relate to the largely agricultural landscape and architecture around them, and many are designed as a counterpoint to life in New York City — they’re often designed as country houses for city dwellers. More than just glass boxes: Modernist homes vary by region | Produced by Advertising Publications 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z IRA squads were shooting British soldiers and burning Anglo-Irish country houses, and the British responded in kind. Armistice Day: victory and beyond | Neal Ascherson 2018-11-11T05:00:00Z Instead of being set in the rarefied country houses of 19th-century England, Bernstein moved it forward 100 years to the era of wealthy coffee barons in the countryside of southern Brazil. Pride and Passion: Jane Austen novels the Brazilian way 2018-11-01T04:00:00Z The country house where one of post-war Britain's biggest political scandals began is hosting a literary festival in keeping with its history as a centre of intrigue. 'Profumo affair' house hosts festival 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z Macron bluntly said May’s Brexit proposals, known as Chequers after the country house where they were agreed by the British cabinet in July, were “unacceptable”. May's Brexit plan goes pop after 'humiliation' by EU, British media... 2018-09-21T04:00:00Z They tend to relate to the largely agricultural landscape and architecture around them, and many are designed as a counterpoint to life in New York City - they’re often designed as country houses for city dwellers. More than just glass boxes: Modernist homes vary by region 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z The document was bought at a country house sale in the early 20th century and partly published by the scholar Basil Lubbock, who then presented it to the museum. Rape secret uncovered in sailor’s 17th-century journal 2018-09-18T04:00:00Z In “Lawn Party,” thirteen guests mingle convivially outside a shingled golden-brown country house. Alex Katz’s Life in Art 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z De Gaulle retreated to his country house, and seemed on the brink of resignation. How Charles de Gaulle Rescued France 2018-08-13T04:00:00Z After the First World War, new inheritance taxes made it almost impossible for the British aristocracy to maintain their vast estates, and country houses across the land fell into disrepair. The British Heat Wave and Aerial Archeology 2018-08-05T04:00:00Z On any given day, the shelters in 17 states across the country house around 10,000 adolescents. Immigrant youth shelters: “If you’re a predator, it’s a gold mine” 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z “The visitor is received with all the ceremony of an arrival at a country house,” wrote the reviewer. How to Spend It: the shopping list for the 1% 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z She remains in their English country house while Michael stays largely in London and their son, Rowan, attends boarding school, physically and emotionally removed from his parents. In 'The Shades,' a family is haunted by their daughter's death 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z The reason given was the tight US security, reporters were scanned and then travelled on buses to the country house, at the insistence that the press arrive ahead of Trump. Trump faces awkward meeting with May at Chequers as protests build – live updates 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z On Thursday, May invoked Winston Churchill as she addressed Trump and business leaders at a black-tie dinner at Blenheim Palace, the 18th century country house where Churchill was born. Trump says May's Brexit plan kills hope of a U.S. trade deal 2018-07-13T04:00:00Z On Friday morning, some protesters plan to follow Mr. Trump to Chequers, the country house of the prime minister, where he and Mrs. May will hold talks on security and trade issues. Big Protests Greet Trump’s Visit to Britain 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z Nonetheless, Fellowes has had to fend off accusations that he is nostalgic for a lost era of country houses and everyone knowing their place. The family tensions that taught Julian Fellowes about class 2018-07-12T04:00:00Z The following morning, protesters will be waiting for him, again, in front of Chequers, the country house outside London where he is expected to meet Mrs. May for breakfast. Where Trump Goes in Britain, Protesters Will Follow 2018-07-09T04:00:00Z On Friday, she finally acted, summoning her cabinet to her official country house, which is known as Chequers, and demanding support for what she presented as the best available negotiating plan. Boris Johnson’s Resignation Can’t Disguise the Harsh Reality of Brexit 2018-07-10T04:00:00Z Norman was working as a groom at a country house where Thorpe was spending a weekend. Hugh Grant has a killer role in Amazon's 'A Very English Scandal' 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z Bullion from the Brink's-Mat robbery was melted down in a shed in the grounds of Palmer's country house at Lansdown, near Bath. Killer 'used spyhole to watch conman' 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The concept was that a dozen young American women with unladylike traits would be shipped off to an English country house to learn social graces, including flower arranging to pheasant shooting. It was a Trump favorite. Now lawyers want the famously discreet Beverly Hills Hotel to share its secrets. 2018-06-17T04:00:00Z “For me, it’s to the National Palace or to La Chingada,” he says jokingly, the last a reference to a country house he owns in southern Mexico. ‘Tropical Messiah’: A Trump-Style Politician Is Mexican Presidential Front Runner 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z The 17th Century country house and gardens - a former home to numerous royals throughout history - was the back-drop for the pair's engagement photos. Millions to watch Prince Harry wed Meghan 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z Two weeks ago, I almost did buy a country house that was all wrong for me. Summer House Madness 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z Agatha Christie chronicled savage acts in English country houses and village rectories. Who’s Killing Off Residents of This Island Nation? Crime Writers 2018-04-20T04:00:00Z Its landscape is dotted with country houses, barns and stretches of wilderness populated with deer, foxes and hawks. Once a Getaway Where Bunnies Frolicked, Now a ‘Black Hole’ 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z The 17th-century country house and gardens - a former home to numerous royals throughout history - was the back drop for pair's engagement photos. Royal wedding: What we know so far 2018-03-23T04:00:00Z It is her prize for winning the top award at the annual Marmalade Festival held at the Cumbria country house Dalemain. Favoured flavours draw own festival 2018-03-19T04:00:00Z But I am once again getting ahead of the story, my decadeslong search for a country house, in which I have been hampered by my budget, the equivalent of two months groceries at Whole Foods. Summer House Madness 2018-05-10T04:00:00Z He built his country house in the Empire style. Once an Asylum, Then a Convent, Now a Home 2018-03-14T04:00:00Z According to trial testimony, the soldiers were sent after several people who broke into a country house belonging to a military officer and stole money, a gun and other belongings. El Salvador detains 3 officers in torture, abduction case 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z Potential buyers also increasingly prefer a turnkey country house over one with historic authenticity, said David Williams, director of Grantley Group estate agents, based in Surrey. London Home Buyers Look to the Countryside 2018-02-01T05:00:00Z She repeated her allegation that that on 4 August 1992 "I was taken to a small attic crawl space in my mother's country house in Connecticut by my father". Dylan Farrow: 'Allen's been lying so long' 2018-01-18T05:00:00Z Lavrov has raised the confiscation of those properties in nearly every meeting with his American counterparts, officials said, accusing the United States of having “stolen our dachas,” using the Russian word for country houses. Doubting the intelligence, Trump pursues Putin and leaves a Russian threat unchecked 2017-12-13T05:00:00Z He also repeatedly, it is alleged, called Godfrey-Ryan, then aged 21, late at night or early in the morning to describe his fantasies of her swimming naked in the pool at his country house. CBS suspends Charlie Rose after sexual harassment and groping allegations 2017-11-20T05:00:00Z You are in a contemplative space, in a dining room that looks as if it were spirited from a country house in the Caucasus. Where to have brunch on Jonathan Gold's 101 Best Restaurants list 2017-10-31T04:00:00Z Last week, a Scottish country house hotel said it was "extremely proud" of its Michelin star but wanted to drop it because the dining guide's expectations were "at odds with achievable profit margins". What does it take to win a Michelin star? 2017-10-02T04:00:00Z Senior editors received clothing allowances that ran into the tens of thousands of dollars, first-class airfares, virtually unlimited entertainment expenses, and million-dollar loans at subsidized interest rates to buy condominiums and country houses. S.I. Newhouse Jr., Publishing Icon Who Ran Condé Nast, Dies at 89 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z In fact, she lives in an ordinary apartment in the center of Berlin, owns a small country house in the Uckermark region north of the capital and grows her own vegetables. 5 things to know about Germany’s Angela Merkel 2017-09-17T04:00:00Z The cinematography itself is well crafted, with lingering shots of lithe young bodies, Italian country houses and orchards of apricots and pomegranates. “Call Me By Your Name” is a work of beauty 2017-09-08T04:00:00Z The Russian government is also seizing two U.S. diplomatic properties — a dacha, or country house, outside Moscow, and a warehouse. President Trump silent on Russia after Putin announced expulsion of U.S. diplomats 2017-07-31T04:00:00Z Hollinghurst has quipped that he was “an architect from the age of six or so … I designed country houses when I went away to boarding school”. Pemberley, Manderley and Howards End: the real buildings behind fictional houses 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z Behind her is a large country house and an illustration of Elizabeth Bennet, her most famous creation. Jane Austen, 200 years on 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z Every year about this time, I am seized with a longing for my own little country house. I Want a Country House. Maybe. 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z The book opens with Dr. Henry Selwyn, whom the narrator and his wife encounter in 1970, on the grounds of a country house in Norfolk. W. G. Sebald, Humorist 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z In a quiet country house where the closest neighbors are pretty far away, the scariest possible sound is a man coughing outside at night. “A Love Story” 2017-05-15T04:00:00Z The preservation of the English country house has always depended on its ability to adapt to new circumstances. Pemberley, Manderley and Howards End: the real buildings behind fictional houses 2017-07-29T04:00:00Z He would then travel the next day to his country house in New Jersey, at the Trump National Golf Course in Bedminster. Trump Is Returning to New York City, Just Not to Sleep 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z I want a country house, but I really want it only three months in summer. I Want a Country House. Maybe. 2017-06-08T04:00:00Z Also gracing the walls is paneling from an old Swedish skap, or armoire, imported from her country house south of Stockholm. Greta Garbo’s East Side Co-op Goes on the Market 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z At the time, he was found to have submitted a claim of 2,000 pounds, or $2,400 at current exchange rates, for the clearing of the moat at his country house. Bank of England Official Resigns After Critical Parliament Report 2017-03-14T04:00:00Z Then, in 2009, at a country house outside Oslo, he was cleaning an outdoor table when a bright speck caught his eye. Flecks of Extraterrestrial Dust, All Over the Roof 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z Fleming found mold growing in an experiment when he returned to his cramped lab after a stay at his country house. Old mold from penicillin discoverer auctioned for $14,617 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Two years ago, some European and US experts gathered to discuss China in an elegant English country house. Donald Trump is making China great again | Isabel Hilton 2017-02-03T05:00:00Z As a Victorian country house in a Dorset seaside village scoops the title of the best B&B in the world, BBC News looks at the key ingredients of a successful stay. How to be a B&B world beater - BBC News 2017-01-25T05:00:00Z Our French country house in Aspen is up in the mountains on 7½ acres. Robert Wagner’s Hollywood Dream 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z The Grade I listed Georgian country house is occasionally open to the public for guided tours. Lady Zetland to stand trial for dangerous driving - BBC News 2017-01-03T05:00:00Z “He’s the town’s biggest landowner and biggest taxpayer,” Judith A. Sullivan, a town administrator, said as she stood near her desk at Town Hall, a canary-yellow building designed to resemble an old country house. Sleepy New Jersey Town Wakes to a New Identity: Trump’s ‘Camp David North’ 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z But the first two decades of Out of the Closet were spent in Bridgehampton, in a two-story white country house in the center of town. A Trove of Hamptons Glamour Finds a New, Humbler Home 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission in its description of Melrose noted, “This ruggedly picturesque country house is rated among Virginia’s most important expressions of the Castellated mode of the mid-19th-century Gothic Revival.” Picturesque castle in Virginia’s horse and wine country served many purposes over the years 2016-11-25T05:00:00Z The couple viewed Hinwick House because they were looking for a country house hotel to invest in. For $17.67 Million, a Replica of Buckingham Palace 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Nor would I roam the darkened corridors of a country house with a lit candlestick inquiring “is anybody there?” Here’s my Halloween confession: maybe I do believe in ghosts | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett 2016-10-28T04:00:00Z Bloomfield and Friedman are still hunting for the fantasy farm to supply their New York restaurants, ideally near her country house along the Hudson River. Chef April Bloomfield’s Country Retreat 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Tony, the retired civil servant, has left England for his country house in Italy. Nine Tales of Crises in “All That Man Is” 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z “I don’t want to give the impression of a country house,” he says, “where you sit around the fireplace.” Villa Alem: A Castle in the Sky 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z She also has a country house upstate, where she tries out new dishes. Chef April Bloomfield’s Animal Ambition 2016-08-26T04:00:00Z For Romans, the medieval hamlets 90 minutes' drive from the capital are popular spots for country houses. The Latest: Italian officials say quake death toll hits 247 2016-08-25T04:00:00Z For Romans, the medieval hamlets 90 minutes’ drive from the capital are popular spots for country houses. The Latest: Health minister: Many kids among quake victims 2016-08-24T04:00:00Z She and her husband use Oak Hill as a country house. In the Hudson River Valley, a Family Legacy in Riverfront Mansions 2016-08-11T04:00:00Z Shepherded to the screen by its star Al Pacino, it follows an aging Shakespearean actor’s emotional crack-up over the loss of his gifts, and his erotic reawakening in a Connecticut country house. Adapting Philip Roth novels for film has been hit or miss 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z I recall that Castaing hung crimson curtains in her country house to complement and highlight the green outdoors. Décor Inspiration from Surrealist Jean Cocteau 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Had this been a snobbish section of the Hamptons, or a quiet country house upstate, things may not have worked out. Before Taking the Plunge, Letting the Club Play Cupid 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Soon enough, shooting erupted all around, with bullets fired from the pro-Russian line smacking into the abandoned country houses where the Ukrainian conscripts sleep during the day. Keeping Bankers’ Hours, European Observers Miss Most of Ukraine War 2016-07-27T04:00:00Z They shoot this thing in an open-air pavilion on the lawn of a country house. 'The Great British Baking Show' 2016-07-22T04:00:00Z For more than half of the 20th Century, staff at the idyllic country house eavesdropped on the world, but shortly that will be no more. Caversham Park: End of an era for BBC listening station - BBC News 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z “Far too many of these great country houses were demolished in this period,” said Crispin Holborow, a director of Savills and Trafalgar Park’s selling agent. A Mansion Befitting Britain’s Admiral Nelson 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z Then an apparently quite amusing barbecue at his country house. Tory leadership: Behind the scenes of Johnson-Gove drama - BBC News 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z Here's a look at what to expect in Rio from a game named after a 19th century English duke's country house: Badminton tries to shake off scandals at the Rio Olympics 2016-06-24T04:00:00Z Page and Plant vividly recalled creating Stairway at a country house south of London, though their testimony was at odds with previous accounts given in interviews by band members over the years. Jury deliberating in Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven plagiarism trial 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z “The English country house genre is a perennial favorite, but it hadn’t been done for a generation,” says the “Downton Abbey” executive producer. Saying goodbye: "Downton Abbey' was magic' 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z You’ll be visiting a friend’s country house, your hosts ushering you through a series of enviable interiors that telegraph their enviable taste, down to the last hand-thrown ceramic coaster. 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