CATHERINE FITZGERALD is supervising three of her four children and their friends as they prepare vegetables they have just picked from the family's walled garden at Glin Castle, County Limerick in the west of Ireland. Meanwhile her husband, Dominic West, has been tied into a frilly flowered apron by the kids and is whisking mayonnaise with the help of a YouTube video, as he is a novice in such culinary matters. It's a far cry from the award-winning actor's role as Prince Charles in the Netflix series The Crown, let alone the hard-drinking Baltimore police officer Jimmy McNulty in The Wire.
We are joined for dinner by Catherine's mother, Olda, in the formal dining room, the deep red walls of which are lined with portraits of FitzGerald ancestors, for Catherine is the eldest of three daughters of Desmond, the 29th (and last) Knight of Glin, who died in 2011. He and Olda ran the castle for a while as a boutique hotel, and now that Catherine and Dominic have taken it over, it can be let out as a whole and used for events.
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Aged to Imperfection
In the Cotswolds, Oka cofounder Sue Jones stirs an alluring cocktail of old and new in an agrarian compound, now her forever home
AMERICA'S ENGLISHMAN
From wide-eyed novice to decorating nobility: how Mario Buatta's journey to mad Anglophile draped a nation in chintz, silk, swags, and a legacy of humor and optimism
Estate of Play
MARTYN LAWRENCE BULLARD revives a romantic Georgian country home in Ireland, deploying grand artistry, craft, and levity in the footprint of local traditions
A PASTORAL PLAYGROUND
Out of an ancestral millhouse, designer MARY GRAHAM raises a new family home in the country, alive with checks, florals, and ruffles
LONDON CORDIAL
MIXMASTER LORENZO CASTILLO DECKS A CHELSEA TOWNHOUSE IN IMMERSIVE PRINTS, RADIANT SEATING, AND A WELCOMING SPIRIT THAT TIPS TO THE WILD SIDE
Minding the Manor
How are Ireland's old noble houses seeding their future? At Ballyfin Demesne, it glimmers in the forests, parklands, gardens, and a way of life that goes back centuries
Perennial Bloomsbury
The creative troupe that ruled the English countryside in the early 1900s had a muse wilder than its lifestyle: the Charleston garden, reborn here in four riotous arrangements.
ENCHANTED GLIN
Along the River Shannon, landscape designer Catherine FitzGerald grows her family's castle gardens into a living wonderland bridging generations
Portrait Mode REVISITED
A new guard of English painters leads a resurgence of the deeply personal art form, capturing faces and figures in a fresh light
The Bold SPIRITS SPEYSIDE
Scotland's famed whisky region reemerges as a stunning epicenter of Celtic craft. Single malt in hand, writer Tracey Minkin joins gallerist and author Hugo Macdonald to discover its decorative arts bloom
