Fittingly, Lauren himself wrote the foreword for Alfredo Paredes At Home: “I took him under my wing because I saw not just his talent, but his passion and love for creating and storytelling. I guess I saw a little of myself in him when I first started out,” Lauren writes. “As much as he devoted himself to working, Alfredo never forgot about living, which is what this beautiful book celebrates: the very personal homes he has created and lived.”
Much of Paredes’s style will remind you of the all-American aesthetic he oversaw for three decades at Ralph Lauren Home. His Shelter Island house has a couch inspired by the crisp striped linen of a pressed Oxford shirt, while his Locust Valley home has decorative fringes that resemble ranch gear. Yet, “I like it to be somewhat eccentric and a little bit bohemian,” says Paredes, who now runs his own interior design studio.
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Paredes is drawn towards rich earth tones like umber browns and hunter greens, and natural materials like rattan and woods. Everything exudes a lived-in patina. “They’re casual but can be elegant at the same time. I don’t like too fussy—I like high-low,” he says of his properties. “I go into some beautiful places that are beautifully designed, yet I don’t feel comfortable.”
Below, go inside Alfredo Paredes’s All-American homes.
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