Natural Fashion

At Bedford Post, an elegant and charming inn painstakingly restored in 2007 by actor Richard Gere, his wife Carey Lowell and their partner Russell Hernandez. Bedford Post, a fourteen-acre retreat located just under an hour drive of New York City in the hamlet of Bedford, is home to an eight-room luxury inn, two restaurants and a yoga studio.
The original structure that now houses Bedford Post dates to before the Revolutionary War. Built in the early 1760s in Dutch Colonial style, Bedford Post is one of only three original structures from the 18th century that remains in Bedford today.
Decorated in a palette of soothing neutral tones by Carey Lowell and designer Tiffany Vassilakis, the rooms on the upper level are framed by hand-hewn reclaimed wood beams original to the property and reminiscent of a romantic country cottage and the white oak wood floors are burnished to a warm glow.
Bedford Post was recently named as a new member of Relais and Chateaux luxury hotel group, and Richard Gere as the new 2011 Relais and Chateaux ambassador, succeeding the French actress and wine grower Carole Bouquet in 2010.
" It was important to us that Bedford Post embrace its Colonial roots. Accordingly, we used reclaimed wood and stone from the property whenever possible. We also wanted to ensure that the entire property was designed to be eco-friendly and that our menu at both restaurants reflects seasonal, local ingredients as much as possible in order to support the community," stated Gere.

The Yoga Loft

Restaurant The Barn

Private dining-room at the Farmhouse

Courtesy Bedford Post

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A bamboo house nestled among trees, surrounded by a forest, an aloe vera planted in the dirt floor of the living room, and a cone-shaped dome that opens to the sky revealing the natural elements of the forest, an oasis of simplicity and tranquility where you only hear the loud noise of the crickets at sunset and the birds singing at dawn.... This is the lovely house that Benjamin Garcia Saxe has built for his mother in Guanacaste, Costa Rica.
" A Forest for a Moon Dazzler," the small bamboo structure designed by UK-based architect Benjamin Garcia Saxe has won first prize in the private house category at the world architectural festival held this year in Barcelona. This unique forest home features two separate modules - a kitchen/living-area on one end and a bedroom space on the other with a courtyard/garden in between.
"My mom and I never had a place we could call home.... always dreaming of a place we could be together."

A Forest for a Moon Dazzler