At a time when the idea of venturing into home décor and furnishings hadn’t even occurred to most luxury fashion houses, Ralph Lauren became a pioneer, of sorts, by launching his home label in 1983.
“I came at everything with a sense of how I would want to live,” Lauren told the Architectural Digest in a 2013 interview to mark 30 years of Ralph Lauren Home. “My wife, Ricky, and I were shopping for things for our apartment, and all the sheets were very feminine and covered in roses. I wondered, why can’t I get something masculine? So, I took