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The horrors of Soho House’s country outpost

Babington House is a mirror of Somerset that Somerset itself does not recognise or want

14 May 2016

9:00 AM

14 May 2016

9:00 AM

It is summer and the listless metropolitan thinks of grass. It cannot afford to stay at Durslade Farmhouse, Somerset, a branch of the Hauser & Wirth art gallery that serves food and plays cow noises in a former barn as authentic country folk rip their eyeballs out. Locals talk about Durslade Farm as a child that died.

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