Alice In Her Palace via AD
I have mentioned many a times (HERE & HERE) my wonder with the doyenne of chic that rules the UK style set.
Inside Alice Naylor-Leyland’s World via AD
For fashion It girl Alice Naylor-Leyland and her family, home in the English countryside is a wonderland
The 19th-century house is built from local ketton stone.
Alice in an Erdem dress with her lambs.
In a hall, antique engravings hang above Hunter Wellies and Tom’s handmade hunting boots.
The kitchen features ranges by Aga (left) and Britannia (right). The walls are painted in Edward Bulmer’s Cuisse de Nymphe Emue. Bespoke island; Carrara-marble countertops.
Edie, a puggle, sits under the pantry table set for breakfast. A sprig wallpaper by Colefax and Fowler; hanging lantern by Vaughan.
Alice’s dressing table in the master bedroom.
Nancy and Billy Naylor-Leyland indulge in sweets in the dining room of Stibbington House. The windows are curtained in a Claremont fabric, edged with Samuel & Sons tassel fringe, and a Thibaut wallpaper covers the walls. 18th-century chairs in a Colefax and Fowler silk; toy animals from Selfridges.
In the playroom, the curtains are of a Bennison linen edged with Colefax and Fowler fringe, and the walls are covered in a Cole & Son wallpaper. Tom sits on a sofa dressed in a Titley and Marr fabric.
In the Bar room, a taxidermy “unicorn” by A Modern Grand Tour sits atop an antique Persian rug from Christie’s. Curtains of a George Spencer designs velvet with Samuel & Sons trim.
In the drawing room, an ostrich-feather lamp by A Modern Grand Tour stands next to a custom-made sofa upholstered in a Le Manach fabric. Pillows of a Lee Jofa chintz; Claremont silk curtains with custom trim; antique Aubusson rug.
In the drawing room, Ethel the Cavapoo perches on an armchair by Howard Chairs ltd. upholstered in a Lee Jofa floral. Taxidermy white peacocks by A Modern Grand Tour.
The young Waltonian, by James Faed, hangs above a vintage record player in the drawing room. Speakers by Tannoy.
The same print adorns the master bedroom, where Alice (in a Giambattista Valli couture dress) sits with her children.
In Nancy’s room, Manuel Canovas’s L’envol covers the walls, and a Susanna Davis linen dresses the window. Crib by the nursery window, London; antique cast-iron bed with Swiss-Dot voile hangings.
Colefax and Fowler’s jubilee rose chintz dresses the windows and a bench in Alice’s bath; tub and fittings by Czech & Speake.
Looking out onto the gardens.
Alice (in an Alessandra Rich dress) with Tom and Alpacas.
Alice (in a Valentino dress) and Tom with the children.
Tom on a path at Stibbington house.
What a life, right?
See Mrs. Alice’s Birthday HERE.
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