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Glamorous Rooms by Jan Showers

September 28th, 2009 · 49 Comments

Glamorous Rooms by Jan Showers

I spent today’s rainy afternoon with a cup of hot tea and Jan Showers’s new book called Glamorous Rooms. After devouring all 206 pages of design ideas and beautiful photography (you can see all of my bookmarks below) I can safely say that Glamorous Rooms will be a forerunner in my design library that I am starting to build. The book is divided into 6 “rooms” covering entry halls, living rooms, dining rooms, bedrooms, private spaces, and outdoor living. Showers shares her portfolio of timeless interior spaces as well as ideas on how to achieve a touch of glamour in your own home. And these ideas are cleverly drawn from her 25 years of experience designing rooms of understated elegance. Below is a small sample of the plethora of refined rooms and Showers’s suggestions:

Glamorous Rooms by Jan Showers

The foreword is written by Michael Kors where he explains the parallels between exceptional design in the fashion and interior design worlds…

“I think it’s Jan’s great eye for fashion that makes her such an incredible decorator. She always says that people shold look great in their rooms, and I love that. Because Jan isn’t creating environments that exist only to be looked at; she’s creating rooms where people want to spend their days and nights. She’s orchestrating someone’s favorite place in the world — not just because of how it looked with that person in it. It’s the same as great fashion design.”

Glamorous Rooms by Jan Showers

The symmetry of this room is concurrently classic and calming. With just the right touches of glamour, including a mirrored coffee table, Murano glass lamps, and zebra hide, it feels polished yet approachable. These qualities are seemingly present in every room that Showers designs.

Glamorous Rooms by Jan Showers

I particularly enjoyed her suggestion about keeping personal objects, particularly books, close by:

“Even when used in the most modest of private spaces, such as by a simple chaise lounge in the corner of a bedroom, books arranged in an interesting stack on the floor or on a nearby table create visual interest and a source of pleasure for whomever sits there. Obviously, in no room are books more at home than in libraries, where a wall of books becomes a wall of art.”

Perhaps this is a reason why even the cloth cover of Glamorous Rooms is, well, glamorous. As seen above, Showers pays homage to Hinson & Co.’s Snow Leopard fabric.

Glamorous Rooms by Jan Showers

Stay tuned, my dear readers, for a special surprise from Jan Showers soon…

Image credits: Jan Showers

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