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Byline: Photographed by FranAs.ois Halard.
To complement his fabled Connecticut gardens, Oscar de la Renta created the world's grandest bed-sit. Hamish Bowles savors the magic.
From the flagstone terraces of Oscar and Annette de la Renta's Connecticut house, the bucolic view is wide and endless and snatches the breath away. A roiling ocean of beech, oak, and sugar-maple trees seems to eddy over the hills and into the infinite distance, with no apparent sign of human habitation as far as the eye can see. The trees that Oscar planted in the foreground three decades agodisposed in artfully haphazard imitation of nature in the fashion that Humphrey Repton ...