A Look Inside Oscar de la Renta s Country Home
Photographed by Fraçois Halard, Vogue, December 20081/9Oscar and Annette de la Renta at the door of their Connecticut country house.
Photographed by Fraçois Halard, Vogue, December 20082/9Architect Ernesto Buch worked with de la Renta to create a magnificent room that functions as a living space, library, and bedroom. The mantel is the model for one installed at Houghton, and the William Kent table to its left was found in London. The Louis Seize chairs in the foreground and the Kentian banquette were in Annette de la Renta s former country house.
"A house in the country is the work of a lifetime" says Oscar de la Renta. "You see the evolution of your own life in a way"
Photographed by Fraçois Halard, Vogue, December 20083/9An early-Georgian secretary in Annette s bathroom, where the walls and pillows were upholstered by decorator Vivien Greenock.
Photographed by Fraçois Halard, Vogue, December 20084/9White Triumphator and Queen of Night tulips in full bloom in one of Oscar de la Renta s garden rooms; the walls are of yew and the beds are framed in box hedges.
Photographed by Fraçois Halard, Vogue, December 20085/9An 18th-century statue is shaded by viburnum and yew.