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"Kenneth's House Style\nThe Legendary Hairstylist in the Hudson Valley\nKenneth Battelle, the famed hairdresser of Jacqueline Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, wanted \"comfort, comfort, comfort\u2014and, more importantly, a garden\" at his country house on the Hudson River, he says. The house, formerly white, was painted red \"to ground it.\"\n\"I have a lot of things here that are very different styles and periods,\" he says, \"but they all make some sort of sense together.\" Above the sitting room mantelpiece is a 19th-century tortoiseshell-framed mirror that hung in his original Manhattan salon, decorated by Billy Baldwin.\nTurn-of-the-20th-century wicker furniture is in the conservatory, which looks onto the grounds. Kenneth relandscaped extensively, planting numerous evergreens and birches. \"Three-quarters of the year, I'm in the garden from dawn until dusk,\" he says. Carpet from ABC.\n\"This house is a repository of all the things that have meant something to me,\" Kenneth says. Photographs of family and friends include former clients Pamela Harriman, Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, pictured with Kenneth in 1961. Ceramic lamps from Asprey.\nKenneth painted the dining room a shade of yellow he'd once seen in designer Nancy Lancaster's London apartment. \"I mentioned it to a friend, who wrote to Colefax and Fowler, who were kind enough to send me a board with the yellow painted on it.\" Table from Sotheby's.\nA small room off the master bedroom is used for wintering tender plants. The hair display is from his salon at the Waldorf-Astoria. \"Usually we disassemble the heads, but I kept this, as it had a lot of charm,\" he explains.\nThe breakfast area off the kitchen.\nIn the master bedroom is an eclectic collection that includes an Anglo-Indian rosewood four-poster bed, an Art Nouveau tablecloth, an Italian lamp and a pair of turn-of-the-20th-century armchairs painted with a tiger pattern. The canvas is by artist Robert E. Moore.\n\"I've always had a red library, and this one is too\u2014Chinese red.\"\nRoses cover a slope above the Hudson River. \"My favorite seasons here are spring and fall\u2014I look forward to the land coming to life in the spring; and in the fall I have the pleasure of putting my garden to bed.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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