Carla Passino
Freelance Journalist and Content Producer at Freelance
Acting Deputy Features Editor at Country Life
Freelance journalist writing about history plus the intersection of politics, food, farming and the environment. Now Acting Deputy Features Editor, Country Life
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1 week ago |
countrylife.co.uk | Carla Passino |Amie Elizabeth White |Rosie Paterson
Dead Salmon, Mouse’s Back, Elephant’s Breath. When artist and interior designer the late John Sutcliffe helped Tom Helme and James Finlay develop Farrow & Ball’s colour range, they outdid one another coming up with hilarious monikers (today, the much tamer Sutcliffe Green is named in his honour).
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1 week ago |
countrylife.co.uk | Carla Passino
On April 10, 1925, Charles Scribner’s Sons published the latest novel by Francis Scott Fitzgerald. It sold poorly that year, but, in the following century, it went on to become a cornerstone of world literature: The Great Gatsby. Almost on its centenary to a day, on April 11, the musical version has its West End premiere, about a year after its Broadway debut.
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2 weeks ago |
countrylife.co.uk | Carla Passino
Poet, social reformer, writer, publisher, and above all artist and designer. There is little William Morris couldn’t or didn’t do, so much so that, in 1896, as he lay dying at the age of 62, a doctor put down his illness to: ‘simply being William Morris and having done more work than most 10 men’.
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3 weeks ago |
countrylife.co.uk | Carla Passino
Laura Ellen Bacon works wonders with willow. She weaves it, twists it and knots it into organic sculptures on a monumental scale which in the past few years have graced, among others, Chatsworth in Derbyshire, London’s Somerset House and the Denver Art Museum in the US.
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3 weeks ago |
countrylife.co.uk | Carla Passino
‘There are so many coins that no one had seen before and some that nobody knew existed.’ The voice of Arturo Russo, director and co-owner of specialist auctioneer Numismatica Ars Classica (www.arsclassicacoins.com) rings as much with marvel as with excitement at the collection he is getting ready to sell. It’s the largest group of non-American and ancient coins ever to go under the hammer — and the greatest part of it has remained concealed for more than half a century.
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@carlapassino have you seen this? A massive 7.4% of the United Kingdom’s GDP could be consumed by #ClimateChange damages by 2100. But, robust policy changes can prevent this. https://t.co/dVt8Svo7DQ
So pleased to see @HeleneBismarck’s reflection on the international special I edited for @Countrylifeprop were so well received
