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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Rooms showcases the elegant eclecticism of renowned designer Jan Showers's interiors, including many projects unpublished until now.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.
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.
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.
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Classic, Oct 15 2009
By Danielle - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Glamorous Rooms (Hardcover)
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.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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formulaic rooms would be a better title, April 2 2010
By J. Collins "dog and decor nut" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Glamorous Rooms (Hardcover)
Every living room equals one sofa upholstered in neutrals, a table with metal legs, two matching side chairs that dont' match the sofa. In the dining room, take one murano chandelier, add a table that doesn't match the surrounding chairs and sideboard. If you want or like the formula, this book has formulas on offer; and perhaps not always bad formulas. (In fact, I though Jan Showers did some pretty dining rooms, but they tend to offer limited scope for individuality to begin with.) But other designers offer a lot more individuality and I had very little sense of the personality of the owners of any of the rooms pictured.
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Pointless, Feb 7 2012
By Dorotheabrook - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Glamorous Rooms (Hardcover)
I have to say, I think this may be the biggest waste of space in a decorating book. I'm shocked it has to many good reviews. The author is a pretty uninspired writer, filling the pages with self congratulatory comments and ubiquitous, unhelpful platitudes like, "don't be afraid to mix eras." The details she mentions in the captions also miss the mark, noting the era of furniture but skipping info like the paint colors used. As far as the photos, they all start to meld together and there is very little difference from one room to another. Showers seems to love to use the same things over and over again (Murano glass lamps for instance) and the same muted palette which while perfectly pretty, get old when that's all there is in those hundreds of pages. In short, there's no useful info and it's repetative. I really do think the books that are offshoots of design blogs are better and more useful (Apartment Therapy, DesignSponge, etc.). Showers' book seems old fashioned and elite. I'm not often moved to write a bad review but this felt like a real waste of time. I would have been so irritated if I'd actually bought it, as opposed to checking it out from the library.
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