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"Sir Ben Kingsley\nThe Actor at Home in Oxfordshire\nSir Ben Kingsley, who was knighted in 2002, in his living room at Spelsbury House in Oxfordshire.\nThe house, currently set on three acres, was built in the mid\u201319th century and has undergone a series of renovations; the most recent one was completed for Kingsley in 1998 by architect Michael Reardon.\nThe entrance hall. Kingsley based the house's dramatic wall colors on the palette Henri Matisse used for his paintings in Morocco. The Red House, circa 1989, by George Hooper is above the mantel; Patrick Morrison's The Accordionist, circa 1996, hangs in the stairwell.\nKingsley purchased the rugs in the living room and the ewer under the window while traveling in Morocco. The gold-framed painting, Lovasok, is by Hungarian artist K\u00E1d\u00E1t B. The black-framed work, one of a pair, is Roula &amp;amp; Hayden by Ishbel Myerscough.\nAn Oscar, won for the actor's work in Gandhi, stands in a corner of the living room on a Rococostyle console table and near a walnut William Morris armchair and a 19th-century painted Italian mirror. Hagar, circa 1896, by Helen Bolton hangs at left.\n\"The dining table and chairs were built in a workshop four miles from my home,\" Kingsley says. \"I like the fact that they're linked with Oxfordshire and influenced, to some extent, by the history and mythology of the area.\" He bought the Murano glass chandelier in Italy.\nA Victorian pine table in the kitchen serves as a gathering place for Kingsley's extended family. The 1920s Welsh dresser holds a portion of his large collection of early-20th-century Royal Doulton china. \"It's not only for display,\" he insists. \"It's in daily use.\"\nKingsley \"kept disappearing to make another film,\" Reardon recalls. \"He'd come back from Morocco or Paris with a piece of furniture, and we'd find a place for it.\" A rosewood four-poster bed, a Swiss blanket chest and a Louis XV\u2013style settee are in the master bedroom.\n\"We re-created the formal garden, so it's more romantic in the 21st-century sense,\" says Kingsley. The landscaping was designed by Alison Higgins.\nA 19th-century thatch-roofed barn adjacent to the house was converted to guest quarters by architect Tim Britten."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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