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"This past April, New York fashion designers Mark Badgley and James Mischka celebrated the 20th anniversary of their business with an ad campaign touting &amp;quot;two decades of glamour,&amp;quot; featuring women such as Anjelica Huston, Lauren Hutton, and Brooke Shields, all of whom regularly walk the red carpet in the duo&amp;#039;s gowns. &amp;quot;The great thing about Badgley Mischka,&amp;quot; Hutton said after the shoot, &amp;quot;is that they have always been more about style than fashion, in the end making them utterly timeless.&amp;quot;  The same could be said of their second home. Three years ago, the pair, who are a couple as well as business partners, abandoned their fashionable weekends in Southampton, New York, for the timeless beauty and more understated glamour of Kentucky horse country. Badgley grew up riding outside of Portland, Oregon, and took up the sport again several years ago, ultimately joining a competitive show circuit based in Lexington. &amp;quot;As soon as I started coming here,&amp;quot; he recalls, &amp;quot;I said, &amp;#039;James, you have got to come down and look at this place.&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Mischka, who is more interested in vintage automobiles (a white 1971 Mercedes 280SL is their Kentucky car), loved the rolling hills and smaller-town grace as much as his partner did. They began looking, found a 1920s stone house on 15 acres, and traded an often-brutal commute on the Long Island Expressway for a more civilized direct flight from LaGuardia.    In the beginning, there was a lot of work to do. First came clearing out about 3,000 trees so that Badgley could put in paddocks and rings in which to exercise his show hunters, Brando, Cooper (thus named, he says, because they are so good-looking), and Nantucket. &amp;quot;It was a rude awakening,&amp;quot; says Mischka, laughing. &amp;quot;We found a small cemetery and a smokehouse that was a raccoon lair.&amp;quot;   They also discovered that most barns in the area were built for drying tobacco, and are therefore, he says, &amp;quot;amazingly open and lofty.&amp;quot; Inspired, they opened up and brightened the house a bit. A screened porch along one side was totally remodeled, and a downstairs bedroom suite was converted into a chic library. The 1970s kitchen, complete with a drop ceiling and wood-grain Formica, was gutted and renovated with &amp;quot;those big tiled servants&amp;#039; kitchens in Newport&amp;quot; in mind, says Mischka; scary pink-and-turquoise-tiled &amp;#039;50s bathrooms were redone in sleek marble. As in their Manhattan apartment, the place was given a predominately black-and-white color scheme, with mostly bare floors and no window treatments. &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;ve never really been comfortable with color in our homes,&amp;quot; he says. &amp;quot;We work with it so much in our business that we like a clean palette where we live.&amp;quot;  The place is indeed clean, but also remarkably warm, with Sherwin-Williams&amp;#039;s Modern Gray paint on most of the walls and what Mischka describes as &amp;quot;so many wood tones&amp;quot; lending depth. &amp;quot;Our contractor wanted to polish up the door frames, but we liked them beat-up,&amp;quot; he says. The frames are mahogany, the floors are red oak; and then there are the wood-mounted antlers on the walls, along with hunting prints and oil portraits.  Though neither man is remotely Southern (Mischka grew up in New Jersey), they quickly absorbed the ethos of their new locale. An old-fashioned butler&amp;#039;s tray downstairs holds decanters for drinks, and there are antiques scattered about upstairs, along with beautifully monogrammed linens from their friend and neighbor Jane Scott Hodges, founder of Leontine Linens. &amp;quot;People adore them here,&amp;quot; says Hodges, who jokes that she &amp;quot;picked up&amp;quot; Mischka on the plane from New York. &amp;quot;I really think they love escaping the hubbub of the city\u2014they enjoy being able to entertain.&amp;quot; Even the brainstorming session over linen choices was conducted during a lovely lunch. &amp;quot;We sat at the table in that fabulous library, James whipped up a quiche, and we drank a ros\u00E9. It was so perfectly civilized,&amp;quot; Hodges says.  The black leather sofas and chairs in the living room are both comfortable and built to withstand the onslaught of a dozen or so dogs, says Badgley: &amp;quot;Everybody with a horse comes with a dog\u2014the trainer has one, and the groom\u2014so we made certain the place was bombproof.&amp;quot; Mischka adds that the same theory applies to parties: &amp;quot;People can spill.&amp;quot;   All the entertaining and guests have even inspired them to create a bedding and bath line. Mischka has become a convert to the local food as well, having learned to make a mean Brunswick stew and declaring, &amp;quot;Country ham is my new favorite ingredient.&amp;quot; Badgley adds, &amp;quot;We had a gang down for Thanksgiving last year. It was a novelty for them.&amp;quot; By now, though, it&amp;#039;s home for him and Mischka. &amp;quot;Unless we&amp;#039;re working straight through, we&amp;#039;re here every weekend.&amp;quot;  Click here to see the gallery for &amp;quot;At Home with Badgley Mischka&amp;quot;.   Click here to see resources. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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