Shiny new money is raining down on the green and gold-flecked valleys of the English Cotswolds, and the locals don't quite know what to make of it.
mix of city slickers, pig and cattle farmers, and shops selling the local Double Gloucester, organic filet steak, and heritage tomato and chili jam consumed in glossy “Marie Antoinette” show kitchens.
Sykes, who’s lived on the farther, Gloucestershire side of the Cotswolds for more than a decade, has satirized these latest nouveau riche arrivals in her new book “Wives Like Us,” , which echoes with P.G. Wodehouse and Evelyn Waugh-style humor. Having started out 20 years ago with the Daylesford farm shop, she now oversees restaurants, cafés, gastropubs, hotel rooms, a cookery school and the new, private Club by Bamford, which the website describes as a “360-degree wellness experience.”
One “squillionaire” in Sykes’ book is the king of Plugs’n’Stuff, a fictional electrical business that’s just gone public. His wife, Augusta “Tata” Hawkins, is a “Country Princess” locked into a life where houses, hair, and horses have to be in a state of perfection at all times.These nouveau types are wreathed in designer fashion and jewelry and aspire to “Marie Antoinette” kitchens, where very little cooking happens .
The mansion is made from the famous honey-hued Cotswolds limestone, which the ancient Romans used for walls and buildings when they ruled Britannia.century designer Capability Brown, and interiors by RH, along with three restaurants, a wine lounge, tea salon, and juicery. RH is planning to open a sister space in
“Daylesford became a magnet when it opened here. For a New Yorker, it was like having Dean & Deluca open near your country house,” she says, adding that it gave some locals a sense of security knowing they could live in the countryside and still have their creature comforts from the city. Her mornings are spent wild swimming in the rivers and ponds with her local friends and, like Hall, she’s also a fan of The Straw Kitchen. She loves “the artistic vibe, the natural life, and the fact that life is so community-minded.”
“The Hamptons is another world. It is the Cotswolds on steroids — so polished, shiny, and very, very rich,” says Sykes, adding that the Cotswolds feels more real.
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