IT'S the film everyone's talking about― a sinister story that both disturbs and delights. Saltburn, filmed at Drayton House in Northampton shire, features a climactic scene in an elaborate garden maze. As Drayton has no maze, director and co-producer Emerald Fennell enlisted the help of Adrian Fisher, the world's leading maze architect, to design one for the film.
❝ Adrian Fisher's fastmoving mind is as twisting and turning as his creations'
Masterminding more than 700 hedge, water, mirror and mosaic mazes around the world, as well as the first 'maize maze', chopped into a Pennsylvania cornfield, requires a busy brain. The day before our planned interview, Mr Fisher telephones me to share the concept he has for COUNTRY LIFE's own maze, the ideas spilling over, unable to wait. His fast-moving mind is as twisting and turning as his creations. Without warning, the conversation takes another path, switching to the awe-inspiring aerial photographs he takes with his drone ('I can deploy it in 90 seconds-and then whoosh'). Then, we're onto follies. 'I'm nuts about towers,' he says, describing them as 'the aerial camera points of the past'.
Adrian Fisher's Blenheim Palace maze that enjoyed a starring role in Inspector Morse
There's no doubt that Mr Fisher's designs are also meant to be enjoyed from a height, where the hedging reveals hidden graphics. One vivid example is the Alice in Wonderland maze created at Dorset's Merritown Farm, which features many familiar characters, including a grinning Cheshire Cat, the Mad Hatter and Alice herself (see 'How to commission a maze' box). At its centre is a pocket watch fixed at four o'clock, indicating a perpetual tea time.
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Kitchen garden cook - Apples
'Sweet and crisp, apples are the epitome of autumn flavour'
The original Mr Rochester
Three classic houses in North Yorkshire have come to the market; the owner of one inspired Charlotte Brontë to write Jane Eyre
Get it write
Desks, once akin to instruments of torture for scribes, have become cherished repositories of memories and secrets. Matthew Dennison charts their evolution
'Sloes hath ben my food'
A possible paint for the Picts and a definite culprit in tea fraud, the cheek-suckingly sour sloe's spiritual home is indisputably in gin, says John Wright
Souvenirs of greatness
FOR many years, some large boxes have been stored and forgotten in the dark recesses of the garage. Unpacked last week, the contents turned out to be pots: some, perhaps, nearing a century old—dense terracotta, of interesting provenance.
Plants for plants' sake
The garden at Hergest Croft, Herefordshire The home of Edward Banks The Banks family is synonymous with an extraordinary collection of trees and shrubs, many of which are presents from distinguished friends, garnered over two centuries. Be prepared to be amazed, says Charles Quest-Ritson
Capturing the castle
Seventy years after Christian Dior’s last fashion show in Scotland, the brand returned under creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri for a celebratory event honouring local craftsmanship, the beauty of the land and the Auld Alliance, explains Kim Parker
Nature's own cathedral
Our tallest native tree 'most lovely of all', the stately beech creates a shaded environment that few plants can survive. John Lewis-Stempel ventures into the enchanted woods
All that money could buy
A new book explores the lost riches of London's grand houses. Its author, Steven Brindle, looks at the residences of plutocrats built by the nouveaux riches of the late-Victorian and Edwardian ages
In with the old
Diamonds are meant to sparkle in candlelight, but many now gather dust in jewellery boxes. To wear them today, we may need to reimagine them, as Hetty Lintell discovers with her grandmother's jewellery
