The flamboyant Chinese Gallery is the centerpiece of Villar Perosa, the 18th-century Northern Italian estate that has been style leader Marella Agnelli’s country home since 1953. She restored the vaulted space with the help of French decorator Stephane...

Marella Agnelli at the Villar Perosa in Turin, Italy. In 1957, Richard Avedon called Donna Marella Agnelli "the prototype of a thousand years of Italian beauty," when he named her one of the world's "Eight Most Beautiful Women" in T&C . "She evokes the...

Marella Agnelli wearing Balenciaga. Photo: Philippe Halsman.

Pasquale de Antonis, Portrait of Princess Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto (later Mrs. Gianni Agnelli) is wearing a creation of Carosa in Palazzo Torlonia, 1948. Richard Avedon, Portrait of Marella Agnelli, 1953. Henry Clarke, Portrait of Marella Caracciolo...

Marella Agnelli in Vogue Magazine, August 1962. Photo by Henry Clarke.