The Bible of British Taste #3

The third issue of the yearly periodical on houses, gardens, art, fashion, folk, culture & more. A Welsh Odyssey. November 2024 Founder-editor Ruth Guilding, contributing editor Luke Edward Hall, art director Jack Henshall, contributing photographer Howard Sooley *** Issue no.3 Autumn /winter 2024 brings you brand new stories, folk tales, legends and marvellous curiosities : healing wells and holy wells in West Cornwall; a true story – of ‘Orlando’ and love-triangulation – featuring Virginia Woolf, Vita and Eddy Sackville-West, by the chatelain of Knole, Robert Sackville West; polemical drawing by Biennale-artist Bedwyr Williams; Corbin Shaw; altered states, psychedelic medicine and a thrice-moated Tudor tower-house in the marshlands of Otmoor; home, sweet home by The World of Interiors’ greatest stylist Jessica Hayns; performing Welsh corgis courtesy of Charlie McCormick; Rowan Williams, archbishop and poet, introducing this issue’s Welsh Odyssey and the legends of the Mabinogi; Chateau Orlando’s founder Luke Edward Hall on excursion to the fashion-fantasy gardens of Clough Williams-Ellis, creator of Portmeirion’s fairyland; the making of brand new Village Green magazine by its creator Jake Williams; David Dawson’s pastoral-paintings; ‘Wales is Not for Sale’ and why Hiraeth doesn’t mean what we think it means; an ancient dwelling house in Eryri … and more writing, including one of the most beautiful [true] stories in the world – ‘The Bank Manager and the Holy Grail.’ *** creative design & art direction