To the manor worn....

Tally Ho, Juicy Couture

In keeping with fashion week, I wanted to highlight the English manor of Juicy Couture co-creative director Gela Nash-Taylor. Wiltshire England is the place for eight weeks of the year for this California transplant fashion icon. An L.A. career girl transforming into a lady of the manor in jolly ol' England.

Gela has a sick day in in Hollywood Hills to thanks for thumbing through the latest Country Life magazine when she saw the estate listed for sale.A quick phone call to the broker yielded a trip to Wiltshire and by the time she was on a jet plane her head was filled of thoughts and ideas of how to transform the 16th century estate.

A peacock roosting in the branches of an Acaia tree, one of a pair that resides in the garden. Below is the well maintained croquet lawn.

The drawing room with magnificent Jacobean plasterwork and chimney piece. The worn dark floors play off the plaster worked chimney. The side chairs are Queen Anne from a suite commissioned by the duke of Leeds, and an original Chippendale sofa with vintage embroidery. The curtain panels are from Chelsea house textiles.

A closer view of the magnifiscent fireplace hearth and it's unique one of a kind carvings.

Another close up of the intricate carved plaster ceiling.

The view from the seating arrangement, the Chippendale chair with it's ornate style.

The bedroom of Gela's daughter, Zoe. The detail to the mantle is also seen in the ceiling of this room. English antiques, bennison fabic on the bed and antique rugs bring the English feel to this bedroom. The floral vintage panels, toile slipper chair and bed linens are feminine but English in style. The mirror above the mantle is 18th - century in style and period.

The couple with their steeds;

 Sid, John's big old chestnut hunter & Ettiquette, Gela's dark bay dressage horse.

The dining area under the covered exterior. A 19th-century Sicilian chandelier and harlequin berge'res in the loggia. Light and dark, blue and white bring an English feel to this outdoor retreat.

The master bathroom with Venetian mirror and curtain panels made from the queen of Italy's court train.

The metal based soaking tub is reflected in the vintage Venetian glass and regal gold sconces on either side of the sunken tub. Notice the warm feel of the furniture quality in the furnishings and vintage wool rug in the bath.

A closer view of the tub and the cut behing marble piece backsplash.

The view from the exterior courtyard, the view is the Jacobean drawing room.

Rough cut stone, drystacked walls and pebble pathways, all elements of English design.

A beautiful English boquet of fleurs from English florist, Robert Kime.

The Chinoiserie Suite, featuring de Gournay wallpaper. The vintage bed panels in the crotched design coordinate with the custon window panels. Antique English furniture dresses this room and features the antique Victorian four poster bed.

A closer look at the furniture, custom made mandolin and antique rug.

These darling beds in the guest room, are a pair of Louis XVI in their original Toile de Jouy.

The gorgeous wallpaper is upholstered in Braquenie's " Tree of Life" fabric.

The tree lined tunnel leading towards the summerhouse in the gardens.

To put the Juicy Couture empire into perspective, the 1.5 million bottles of Juicy Couture fragrances have been sold in the USA since 2006. This fashionista is as organized and obsessed with her home as she is with her design label. As for their English manor home, from the headrest of their Range Rover,cocktail napkins, notecards to menu's of their manor are covered with the recreated crest of the Longs of Wraxall - a prancing lion. Gela has put it on everything, a lot like the Juicy crest, which is two Scottie dogs. Gela says she does not take it seriously, but it is the perfect adornment. She is crest - obsessed!

Photography and pictures from Vogue Sept 09 Francois Halard