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"Ralph Ricky Lauren\nIn their idyllic home on Jamaica, the couple fashion a singular island elegance\nFashion designer Ralph Lauren and his wife, Ricky, bought a Jamaican villa on Round Hill, near Montego Bay, some 20 years ago. \"It's a place where you really love where you are,\" he says.\nAsian accents, such as antique ginger jars and chinoiserie mirrors, contribute to the living room's exotic feel.\nAn 18th-century gilt mirror hangs above the fireplace in the living room, which also has a reading corner.\n\"We made the house what it should be,\" Ralph Lauren points out. \"It's in the spirit of Round Hill\u2014very quiet, very elegant.\" Upholstery linen, Ralph Lauren Home.\n\"We live on the veranda,\" Ralph Lauren says of the loggia/dining terrace. \"The goal was to make our family comfortable in a luxurious setting,\" explains Ricky Lauren, who wrote a book about Jamaica called My Island. \"We go there as often as we can escape.\"\n\"It had carpeting inside and outside; that's strange in Jamaica,\" Ricky Lauren says of the residence, built in the 1950s. \"It took a lot to restore it. Now it's like a plantation house.\"\n\nThe master bedroom has banana-leaf matting. Mosquito netting, Ralph Lauren Home.\nThey tore down an existing structure and replaced it with a screening room and an adjacent sitting area. To continue the plantation aesthetic, the couple used \"lots of mahogany.\"\n\"We made the pool quite a bit bigger,\" remarks Ricky Lauren, \"and put in a lot of plantings as well.\"\nIn 1996 the couple purchased a beach house just down the hill and renovated it. They named it the White Orchid. The interior courtyard. \"The great house has a classic feel,\" says Ralph Lauren. \"The White Orchid is clean, barefoot and luxurious.\"\nMarble floors were installed in the living room. Hurricane lamps, Ralph Lauren Home.\nThe couple expanded the pool deck. The beach house is \"like being on a boat,\" notes Ralph Lauren. \"The greenness of Jamaica is gorgeous. The air is very mild. It feels like a paradise. There's a naturalness and ease of living. It smells like a beautiful place.\""^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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