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COLUMNS 16 THE GOOD LIFE Alice B-B gets behind the potter’s wheel 18 THE RURBANIST Ruby Hammer

UP FRONT 21 BACK TO BASICS Put the fabric first 22 THE EDIT Style update 24 OUT OF OFFICE Laid-back luxe 25 WELL GROOMED Men’s style news 26 THE MAGPIE Wrist appeal 27 MY STYLE Olivia von Halle 28 SOCIAL STATUS Victoria Magrath 29 POWDER ROOM Date-night essentials 30 BODY LANGUAGE The hypochondriac’s best friend 32 BODY & SOUL Eating for nutrition 34 DOCTOR, DOCTOR Fitness is as much in your head as it is in your body

THE GUIDE 37 THE GUIDE Kettle’s Yard puts female artists front and centre 41 365 DAYS OF CULTURE Ed Vaize y’s guide to the year ahead 44 ARTIST’S STUDIO Christos Tsimaris 45 TALENT SPOTTERS Have more confidence to identify emerging artists 46 THE OLYMPIAN Letter writing is not dead, according to Sebastian Coe 48 CONVERSATIONS AT SCARFES

BAR It’s Mark Stevenson’s job to predict the future. Charlotte Metcalf finds the futurologist is doing things differently

FEATURES 50 IRONS MAN Despite his acting lineage,

there’s more to Max Irons than his on-screen life, as Benji Wilson discovers 60 THREE SISTERS The potter, the painter and the writer: Charlotte Metcalf meets Clover Stroud, Nell Gifford and Emma Bridgewater for their first – and last – interview together 66 ELBOWS AT THE READY Want a

Carrie Bradshaw wardrobe on a pauper’s budget? Follow Caroline Phillips’s guide to designer sample sales