Country Living UK Modern Rustic 16

editors note

It’s a tough job, but someone’s got to do it!” my editor Susy Smith always joked. She has now handed the task of editing this publication on to me. And, of course, she is right: it is the dream job. Travelling around the UK (and occasionally further afield) to find the most interesting houses – and working with outstanding photographers – is always exciting and inspiring. For this issue, we headed to a wild part of the Cairngorms, in dramatic weather and across rugged mountain scenery. The Georgian hunting lodge had been turned into a sophisticated dwelling full of texture and sleek modern design, combined with earthy shades and organic materials. On another trip, a colourful cottage in Suffolk’s market town of Lavenham had been cleverly extended, blending into a…

seeds of change

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objects of desire

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winter wonder

artisan profile

Sophie Sellu kept her own name under wraps for the first year or two of her woodworking business. Potential stockists were taken aback when the appointment booked as Grain & Knot turned out to be a girl. “I wanted the products to stand on their own,” she says. And they did – first her hand-carved spoons, which have been stocked by Liberty and used in photo shoots for cookery books, and, more recently, the elegant, sculptural brushes she makes at her home in Crystal Palace, south London. She had always been hands-on, always enjoyed woodwork at school (and her father was a surgeon, so perhaps there’s a natural feel for the knife), but her degree in interior design at Manchester School of Art ended up leading her into a job in…