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"Actress Blake Lively won over television and film audiences with her starring role on Gossip Girland critically acclaimed performance in The Town, and her sartorial choices have landed her on many best-dressed lists and as a face of CHANEL handbags. Now that she&amp;#039;s purchased a home in Bedford, New York, she&amp;#039;s poised to bring her personality and style to the decorating world as well. An avid cook, Lively is starting the process with a top-of-the-line kitchen, and invited La Cornue President, Xavier Dupuy to the set of Gossip Girl to discuss the project. &amp;quot;She knew exactly what she wanted,&amp;quot; says Dupuy, whose grandfather founded the company over 100 years ago. Since La Cornue ovens are never mass-produced, Lively has been involved in the design of hers\u2014from choosing colors and metals to size and functionality. &amp;quot;Our customer is a true gourmand,&amp;quot; says Dupuy, a fitting statement for Lively, whose cooking has been lauded in the press by former costars and Bedford neighbor Martha Stewart.  ELLEDECOR.com spoke to Lively about her plans for her new home. ELLE DECOR: Congratulations on your new home. What inspired you to choose the house? Blake Lively: Thank you. The location is great. And we loved the kitchen. It&amp;#039;s really the family room. ED: You&amp;#039;re known for your personal style\u2014does that influence your decor? BL: Design, whether it&amp;#039;s on your body or in your home is the same thing. It&amp;#039;s mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns\u2014elements that you wouldn&amp;#039;t often put together in an interesting way. That&amp;#039;s also why I look for things that you don&amp;#039;t see everywhere, things that are elegant. And I&amp;#039;m always looking for pieces that make a statement. ED: Do you have any decorating &amp;quot;rules&amp;quot;? BL: No. You have to go with your instinct. If you don&amp;#039;t try it, you end up doing it later anyway, and then you end up paying to do it twice! There are things that I just have to try. And yes, sometimes it doesn&amp;#039;t work, but I really think you should just do what makes you happy. ED: What will your kitchen be like? BL: Since my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its aesthetic, but also in the tools that I&amp;#039;m using to cook. I learned about La Cornue when I was going to school in the south of France. I was on a road trip, stuck in traffic, when I looked to my left and saw the most beautiful ranges I&amp;#039;ve ever seen in my life. I left my car there and jumped out to run to the window. Everybody was honking at me. I took a picture of the window and I thought: One day I&amp;#039;m going to have that! When I got home, I had to find it. Turns out other people knew about La Cornue (laughs). It wasn&amp;#039;t something that I discovered. The story behind the company and the quality made me want to be a part of it. These ovens are timeless, they&amp;#039;re something you can give your grandkids.  ED: You choose the color Ocean Blue for your oven. What inspired that? BL: That was the hardest part\u2014so many beautiful colors! This oven is going to be the centerpiece of my kitchen so I wanted something daring but also timeless. I wanted to feel like I could change up other parts of the kitchen and the oven would remain classic. At first I thought a fuchsia or oxblood, but the blue seems like a bold color that&amp;#039;s still grounded, because it has a little bit of a grey undertone. It&amp;#039;s a jewel tone with a little storminess. You can also mix the different metals, can go all-stainless, or copper, or brass. It&amp;#039;s such a fun experience\u2014I&amp;#039;m still deciding on my combination! I can&amp;#039;t tell you how many hours I&amp;#039;ve spent on the website.  ED: Who will be using the oven most in your home? BL: Me. But I&amp;#039;ll have to fight my mom for it. She is an amazing chef. We&amp;#039;ve got a big family, and we&amp;#039;re very close. My brothers are great at pies, and the girls usually do the savory things.  ED: Do you have any favorite recipes?  BL: I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can&amp;#039;t figure out how to make it again! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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