“THE INN AT RANCHO SANTA FE NEEDED TO RECLAIM ITS OLD LUSTER,” says designer Catherine Bailly Dunne, who recently revived the public spaces of the historic hotel in Rancho Santa Fe, a bucolic California hamlet twenty-five miles north of San Diego. Set amid twenty-plus acres of rolling hills and a forest of eucalyptus trees, the Spanish Colonial Revival-style structure “hardly seems to be of this country at all,” says hotel manager Kerman Beriker. “The area is civilized and peaceful, and it’s the perfect backdrop for a hotel that captures the spirit of old California.”
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