Hot Off The Press: Preview The May/June Issue

Welcome to the May/June issue of Country & Town House, which is a bumper edition jam-packed with juicy content, from our annual Aesthetics Guide to thoughtful features and plenty of joyous inspiration for summer. Plus: our seventies-inspired cover shoot, the best global supper clubs, the home gardens of our country’s greatest landscape designers, serious summer villas and so much more…

A Look Inside Our May/June 2025 Issue

What’s Inside The Issue?

• What did Deliciously Ella do next? Ellie Smith meets Ella Mills as she enters a bold new chapter. Plus, take a peek inside our annual C&TH and J/PR Female Founders lunch at The Hari in Knightsbridge
• To tweak or not to tweak? Our annual Aesthetics Guide, edited by Annabel Jones, delivers insights from the best writers in the field (including Alice Hart-Davis, Olivia Falcon and Claire Coleman) to help make an informed choice on the many treatments and interventions available. And you don’t necessarily need to go under the knife, says Celia Walden
• Discover how Chelsea is regaining its place at the forefront of the cultural zeitgeist – the latest feather in its cap is the Chelsea Arts Festival, a three-day celebration of culture, wonder and joy across page, stage and screen, taking place in September
• Summer lovin’ – get set for the season with our colourful, seventies vibes cover shoot
• Lucinda Baring interviews the Duke of Richmond, who shares his ambition to make the Goodwood Art Foundation – launching in May – the greatest contemporary art foundation in the world
• Broadway superstar Billy Porter talks Cabaret, new love and the dress that changed his career

PLUS

• Charlotte Metcalf meets Victoria Siddall – the first female director in the National Portrait Gallery’s history – at Scarfes Bar
• Alice B-B asks if grown ups should give up daydreaming, as she discovers a new spa in London that catapults her (metaphorically) into outer space
• Clare Coulson shares the home gardens of some of Britain’s greatest garden designers, including Dan Pearson, Tom Stuart-Smith and Arabella Lennox-Boyd – plus Dominic West’s wife, Catherine FitzGerald, who shares her bucolic idyll in Wiltshire
• Fee Drummond finds sanctuary (and fun!) at Soneva Soul festival in the Maldives
• Our style pages are brimful of ideas of what to wear this season, from weddings to garden parties, plus Shane C. Kurup pinpoints the best sartorial picks for men and Simon de Burton has the lowdown on dazzling new timepieces from Watches & Wonders
• Former Vogue editor and stylist to the Princess of Wales Ginnie Chadwyck-Healey shares her wardrobe secrets
• Our C&TH nutritionist – Dr Federica Amati, also head nutritionist at Zoe – gives us the truth about ultra processed foods. All is not as it seems…
• PLUS hot plays to book, new exhibitions to see and books to read; supper clubs to single out, from Guy Ritchie’s Ashcombe Estate to the fashion set’s super cool We Are Ona; and travel inspiration from gorilla tracking in the Congo Basin to where the wild things are in Madagascar and stonking villas across the world
• And finally, Swing! through our golf special, for the coolest new golf clothes for women (yes, they do exist…at Varley, Ralph Lauren, Tory Burch…), the best courses to play from Texas to Tasmania and places to stay (even if you’re not hitting the fairway)