At Wardington Manor, the Land Gardeners.
'Walled gardens - and restoring them - is what we really want to be doing,' says Bridget Elworthy. Four years ago Bridget and her friend and partner, Henrietta Courtauld, started the Land Gardeners. Cutting gardens... 
At Brewery House, in the Somersetshire Hills
I met Ursula Brooke at lovely Shulbrede Priory, the family house of her late husband Thomas Ponsonby,now home to her sister-in-law Kate and her husband Ian Russell. Some time after they had generously allowed...
Measure, Draw, Build: George Saumarez Smith, architect.
This is the home of George Saumarez Smith in Winchester. Howard armchair in the basement drawing room I went there to photograph on a sultry day in August, when the...
The Old Sweet Dove of Wiveton.
Wiveton is a hamlet on the north Norfolk coast, with a pub and a church and pretty brick houses set behind their walls and fences. Wiveton Hall stands on the edge of...
David Bridgwater, his curious world.
David Bridgwater wrote to me a few weeks ago. He had read the art book that I published with Yale, Owning the Past, about the English collectors who scoured Italy, Greece and Turkey for antique...
Shulbrede Priory near Lynchmere.
On the borders of Sussex, Surrey and Hampshire, Shulbrede Priory is the surviving corner of the rather obscure religious house of Wlenchmere, founded at the end of the twelfth century and suppressed by Henry VIII...
Back to the Drawing Board: Pat Albeck.
In the autumn of 2016 I visited the artist and renowned textile designer Pat Albeck in the Oxfordshire gate lodge where she has lived for about four years. She came there with her husband the...
Domenica More Gordon, an artist’s house in Scotland.
Years ago, when our children were young, our generous friend Mary took us all for summer holidays at her family house, on one of the outermost islands in the Outer Hebrides. There in the rain,...
At home in West Dorset 2, Julia de Pauley.
I photographed my friend Julia de Pauley's house here a couple of years ago. It changes all the time. She was designing some belts under her pseudonym, 'shophound' but her perfectionism meant that things were...
Wonders of the East End: Malplaquet House.
Thirty years ago this old house, built in the 1740s and set back behind a high wall on a main thoroughfare in London's East End, was a wreck, sans joinery, window frames or fireplaces,...
