Dear Reader,

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.

Highlights include:

• What did Deliciously Ella do next? Ellie Smith meets Ella Mills as she enters a bold new chapter

• 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:

• Dr Federica Amati , head nutritionist at Zoe, separates the wheat from the chaff when it comes to ultra-processed foods

• 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

Pick up your copy now here , or in stores from next week. We hope you enjoy it!

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