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Glamorous Rooms

Glamorous Rooms
By Jan Showers

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Glamorous Rooms showcases the elegant eclecticism of renowned designer Jan Showers's interiors, including many projects unpublished until now.
 
Illustrated with dazzling photography, Showers's accessible and useful design tenets will inspire readers to create their own luxurious yet relaxed homes. Showers's attention to detail seamlessly blends Hollywood high style, midcentury modernism, and classic 18th-century French styles with the local flavors of St. Barth's, Paris, and Rome. Her modern and timeless interiors, never overdone, have earned her a dedicated fan base of top designers, celebrities, and power brokers from Palm Beach to Del Mar. A must-have addition to any design enthusiast's library, Glamorous Rooms is sure to be an instant classic.
 
Traditional Home October 2009
Lucite and tufting and mirrors, oh my!  Love shimmering elegance?  You'll thrill to the work of Jan Showers, a Texas pro.

Veranda November-December 2009
Texas-based designer Jan Showers strikes just the right balance between restraint and high visual impact. Her superbly detailed rooms gain unique presence through a mix of styles, such as Hollywood Regency, eighteenth-century French and mid-century modern. Like her spaces, her furnishings-including her 1940’s-inspired Venetian glass lamps-exude American glamour.

House Beautiful November 2009
Jan Showers tells all, Dallas style. The how/why of glamour, one gorgeous room @ a time. Read the captions!

Luxe Fall 2009
Over 200 dazzling photographs of Showers’ design, which seamlessly blend Hollywood high style, mid-century modernism and classic 18th century French style.


Product Details

  • Amazon Sales Rank: #14512 in Books
  • Published on: 2009-09-01
  • Original language: English
  • Number of items: 1
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • 208 pages

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Jan Showers of Dallas, Texas, is one of the world's most fashionable interior  designers. Her glamorous homes have landed her spots on Top One Hundred Designers lists and in the pages of virtually every interiors and architecture magazine in the world. For the first time, Showers's unique aesthetic is captured in a single volume. Michael Kors is an internationally renowned fashion designer. He lives in New York.

Customer Reviews

Classic5
This book is beautifully done. She knows how to mix textures using fabrics and furniture from any time period, and she definitely has an eye for color and value. I love how she uses color throughout the book...each time the hues are perfect(the platinum/gray living is one of my favorites..so chic!). The rooms are glamorous and smart while being accessible. I will definitely use this as inspiration for my own home.

Lovely5
I will never get finished with this beautiful book. Each page is a visual treat and goes straight to my head with thoughts on improving my home's look. I want an entry that says "this is a different home than you thought".... and I want a bed like Jan's.... my favorite page is the one that shows a "collection of perfume bottles on a mirrored tray" .... good job, Jan Showers et al.

Epitome of Elegance5
I have always been a fan of Ms. Showers. Over the course of 8 years I have collected every article, magazine and book that has even mentioned the talent of this interior designer. I received my copy of the book today, and it was just what the doctor ordered: the elegant, and glamorous rooms are bright, beautiful and fantastically photographed.

I love the way each chapter covers specific rooms in a home, and yields many full-page examples of interiors. There is no choppiness of imagery that many interior design books publish nowadays, where one can find tiny photographs with about 12 examples of interiors on one page, and one can barely make out the interiors.


My one negative about the book is that I only wish the pages were printed on glossy paper. But maybe next time...