A Grand Gesture

Ralph Lauren

Dreaming impossible dreams and making them come true....

 Text by Mitchell Owens/Photography by Joshua McHugh

Back in the 1970s, Lauren often gazed upon the Renaissance Revival château that heiress Gertrude Rhinelander Waldo built for herself in 1898, on Madison Avenue at 72nd Street, and imagined the largely unused house aglow with light and filled with people. That’s precisely what happened after Lauren made it his American flagship in 1986, following a three-year restoration that, he says, “made it more beautiful than it ever was.” read more at... Architecture Digest