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10/01/2005
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| Ralph Lauren Home’s new Desert Hills collection channels the American West. |
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If anyone can infuse classic Western aesthetics into furniture without creating
pieces that look like castoffs from a John Wayne movie, it is Ralph Lauren.
Fashion’s most fervent champion of classic American style has introduced the
Desert Hills collection through Ralph Lauren Home: a line of chairs, tables,
accessories and bedroom furnishings. “The desert’s natural beauty was the
inspiration for the collection; its rugged textures, organic lines and its
muted, tonal palette,” says Lauren. “I also drew on the West for patterns and
materials.”
 Photograph by Pieter Estersohn. (Click image to enlarge)
The rustic Joshua Tree dining table (left, $10,000) brings a
modicum of Western style into the home without necessitating a call to the
decorator. Its rugged shape and finely sanded wood top—a 3-inch slice of ancient
timber from the African zebrano tree—are as at-home in a formal setting as they
are in casual environs. Blackened steel legs, inspired by mid-century modern
decor, are juxtaposed with the organic-style tabletop.
 “I can see the table
living in many different environments,” says Lauren. “We’ve set it with
turquoise and burnished bronze pottery, hammered silver and hand-tooled leather;
I have also shown it in a more minimalist, serene setting—with woven raffia and
rattan and white-speckled glass.” (Cick image to enlarge)
The collection’s whimsical tree stumps
(above), designed as occasional tables, add Tolkienesque panache to the dining
experience when used as accompanying chairs. The one-of-a-kind hand-polished
stumps (price upon request) are available in oiled cedar, juniper, oak and
walnut.
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