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Jan Showers, 2005 (Photo by Stephen Karlisch)
A dressing room in Jan and Jim Showers’ Hillsboro home, 2008. Published Jan Showers Glamorous Rooms. (Photo by Jeff McNamara)
Project for Sherri and Travis West, Pemberton Heights, Austin, 2016. Published Luxe Interiors + Design, Jan Showers Glamorous Rooms.
Project in Austin, 2008. Published Veranda, Jan Showers Glamorous Rooms. (Photo by Stephen Karlisch)
A project at the Mansion Residences at Turtle Creek, Dallas, 2008. Published Veranda, Jan Showers Glamorous Rooms. (Photo by Brian McWeeney)
A project at the Mansion Residences at
Turtle Creek, Dallas, 2008. Published Veranda,
Jan Showers Glamorous Rooms. (Photo by Brian McWeeney)
Project in Dallas, 2008. Published in Jan Showers Glamorous Rooms. (Photo by Stephen Karlisch)
Project for Kimberly Schlegel Whitman, The Claridge, Dallas, 2007. Published PaperCity,
Jan Showers Glamorous Rooms. (Photo by Ka Yeung)
Project in Paradise Valley, AZ, 2017. Published in Architectural Digest and Jan Showers Glamorous Living
(Photo by Jeff McNamara)
A project in Paradise Valley, Arizona, 2017. Published Architectural Digest, Jan Showers Glamorous Living. (Photo by Jeff McNamara)
Jan Showers with her granddaughter,
Eliza Showers Moldawer, 2004 (photo by Stephen Karlisch)
Jan Showers, 2003 (Photo by Jeff McNamara)
A project in Dallas, mid-2000s. Published
Western Interiors, Jan Showers Glamorous Rooms. (Photo by Dominique Vorillon)
Project in Berland, Published Western Interiors, Jan Showers Glamorous Rooms. (Photo by Dominique Vorillon)
Project in Dallas, 2001. Published Southern Accents, Jan Showers Glamorous Rooms. (Photo by Pieter Estersohn)
Project for Jan and Jim’s home in Hillsboro, TX, early 2000s. Published in Jan Showers Glamorous Rooms. (Photo by Jeff McNamara)
Project for Jan and Jim’s home in Hillsboro, TX, early 2000s. Published in Jan Showers Glamorous Rooms. (Photo by Jeff McNamara)
Jan Showers is in the midst of a milestone. Her elegant showroom on Slocum Street in Dallas’ Design District — with its black lacquered door, boxwoods, and salons fashioned with the finest of 1940s glamour — is celebrating 30 years.
Jan Showers was still fine-tuning her new space when PaperCity launched its first Dallas edition in 1998, with no small help from the interior designer — in advice, hand-holding, and cheering. After majoring in business at Texas Christian University, where she reconnected with her future husband, Jim, Showers’ entry into the world of design was somewhat happenstance. Her first big job was her own home: the young couple’s three-story Colonial in Hillsboro. After the bon ton in town took notice, as well as those in Dallas … well, as the saying goes, the rest is design history.
Given our love affair with Jan Showers, we’ve written about her many times over the years, whenever she’s debuted a new Jan Showers Collection of furniture or designed additions to her Kravet Couture line, or when she’s allowed us a glimpse into a home she’s suffused with her glamorous imprimatur — “quiet luxury,” long before that term entered the vernacular.
One of the original advocates when Kips Bay came calling six years ago, Showers has designed two spectacular rooms for Kips Bay Decorator Show House Dallas, where she also co-chaired three times, served as honorary chair for two years, and was honored herself in 2025 at Kips Bay President’s Dinner. She was also the inspiration for a monthly column I used to pen, lovingly titled “She’s The Bomb.”
It’s only fitting that her four design books, which populate the chicest of coffee tables from Holmby Hills to Darien, are titled Glamorous Living, Glamorous Rooms, Glamorous Retreats, and The Glamorous House, the latter of which debuted in October 2025. All have become essential resources in the design world.
We’re celebrating this pearl on her pearl anniversary, taking a look at her most memorable rooms from the past three decades.