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"Ralph Lauren's Bedford Beauty\nThe Designer Envisions a True Gentleman's Retreat in New York\nThe Norman-style stone manor house dates to 1919. A pair of vintage automobiles from his collection occupy the circular drive.\n\"It's a combination \u2018hunting lodge' and stately home,\" Ralph Lauren says of the residence he and his wife, Ricky, share in Bedford, New York.\nA circa 1860 English chandelier illuminates the living room. Above the George II table is an 18th-century tapestry. The zebra wing chairs are Louis XV. Hanging between the windows is a portrait of James Ramsey Cuthbert, painted by Sir Thomas Lawrence around 1805\u201310.\nProminent paintings in the dining room include, from right, A Woman Hunting, 19th century, by Alfred Dedreux; Henry Koehler's 1927 Hunting Coats and Whips of the Pytchley Hunt Staff; and Piebald Horse in a Field, 19th century, by Thomas Moyford. Ralph Lauren Home flatware.\nDominating a corner of the master sitting room is a Louis XV bureau plat, attributed to Jacques Dubois, from the collection of Edmond de Rothschild. Tartan accessories\u2014found in nearly all the major rooms\u2014top the desk. The plaid fabric is from Ralph Lauren Home.\nA purposeful balance of antique and contemporary is evident throughout the house; in an area of the master bedroom, Tobias Stranovius's 18th-century Peacock and Peahen joins Robert Mapplethorpe's calla lily photographs and portraits of the Laurens and their three children.\nAmong the artworks in the library are, from left, Fecit Romae, 1774, by Pompeo Batoni; The War Bonnet by Edgar Samuel Paxson; and Leopards, 19th century, by Henry Calvert. The bronze on the mantel, L'Accolade, is by Pierre Jules M\u00EAne and dates to the 19th century.\nLauren names \"native things and anything that has to do with a rustic sensibility\" as inspirations for his 2004 fall collection. His closet and dressing room are outfitted with mahogany millwork. Classic pieces like riding boots and jean jackets are part of his everyday wardrobe.\nA circular mahogany-paneled hall leads to the master bath, part of the Laurens' five-room upstairs master suite. The couple chose white marble for the space, which overlooks the grounds, and incorporated a mirrored wall and an 18th-century mantelpiece.\nThe master bedroom, which is enveloped in a deep-blue fabric, is anchored by a Georgian mahogany-and-walnut bureau-cabinet and an 18th-century mahogany armchair by Georges Jacob. A Regency bed, chinoiserie accents and Oriental rugs round out the mix of styles.\nThe spacious lawn and ivy-covered walls of the 17,000-square-foot house, surrounded by greenery and sitting on more than 250 acres, evokes an estate in the English countryside.\nSimply furnished, the rear terrace is used for dining and entertaining.\nThe Laurens shuttle between the Bedford retreat and a summer house in Montauk, New York, a Manhattan town house, a villa in Jamaica and the 16,000-acre Double RL Ranch in Colorado (see Architectural Digest, November 2002). The poolhouse terrace."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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