Win Glamour: Making It Modern Signed by Author Michael Lassell & Donna Warner from Metropolitan Home
Posted on Jun 23, 2009 by Decorati
We have a special book giveaway & contest courtesy of Metropolitan Home and Filipacchi Publishing. One lucky reader will win a free copy of Glamour: Making it Modern signed by author Michael Lassell and Metropolitan Home Editor-in-Chief Donna Warner.
How do you define “Glamour?” From mansions to cottages, estates to studios, glamour can be found in all types of places. Keep reading to view six uniquely glamorous spaces created by top designers around the world.
To enter to win the autographed copy:
Select your favorite room image and tell us why this room defines “Glamour” (e.g., architectural elements, use of furnishings, color, etc.)
How to register your entry: Click the link below your favorite photo. You will be taken to our Forums where you can enter your response. Our editors will select ONE WINNER from all entries received by July 2th at 5pm PT. Click “more” or scroll below to see all images and learn more about the book.
Image 1: Unlike most real-life rooms, this duplex loft—in a 1926 San Antonio candy factory that was converted by architects Jim Poteet and Patrick Ousey—is big enough to double as a soundstage for an elegant Fred and Ginger fox-trot. Deferring to the refined space, interior designer Courtney Walker exercised effective restraint.
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Image 2: Paola Navone is one of the most accomplished living designers of contemporary Italian furniture (she designed the table pictured here for Gervasoni). In the dining room of her home in Milan, she displays her extraordinary collection of Chinese celadon ceramics on three illuminated, zinc-clad shelves that run the entire length of the room.
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Image 3: Cuban-born Manhattan designer Benjamin Noriega-Ortiz attributes his joy in color to his Caribbean upbringing. Knowing that red stimulates the appetites, he saturated this monochromatic dining room north of New York City with a deep and vibrant version of the color; the adjacent living room is bathed in a warm honey mustard.
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Image 4: Architect William Reese created this minimalist Hamptons living room with natural materials and Zen-like proportions. Visual interest comes from variations in texture and light, and decor that pairs cylinders—bark drums, overscale lamp shades, and silvered ceramic side tables—with Mies chairs and a classic carpet.
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Image 5: The less there is in a room, the more perfect each thing has to be. Chicago designer Kara Mann obviously learned this lesson before outfitting her sybaritic monk’s cell of a bedroom. Christian Liaigre’s one-off canopy bed (draped in sheer Ballerina cotton from Great Plains) never went into production.
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Image 6: In her white-with-black bathroom in London, Kelly Hoppen set sculptural bathtub hardware of her own design into a black box beside the elliptical marble tub by Andrée Putman, which the designer set on a raised, stained-oak platform. The striated marble wall is subtly gridded; the stools are by India Madhavi and Mies van der Rohe.
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Nice sensibility Steven!...




A wonderful mix of materials and textures make the contemporary setting soothing and comfortable. Love the unexpected persian rug and the range of gray and brown tones.
The first image illustrates that great design in any space - can make any space great.
A clean set of elements with interesting accents contrasts with an urban space and really creates comfort.
Image 4, the Hamptons room by William Reese, exudes glamour. Aren’t the pair of empty chairs almost talking to each other across the room? The interior furnishings do not compete with the architecture but are beautiful adjectives. I could move in, in a minute!
Judy Cross
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