She is also the owner and proprietor of a showroom in the Dallas Design District where she curates and sells antiques purchased on buying trips to Paris, New York, London and Venice.
[9] Showers has decorated houses in the United States and Canada, including projects in Palm Beach, Aspen, San Francisco, Nantucket and Toronto.
I love the living room he did for Mary Wells Lawrence at La Fiorentina in the south of France―those blue sofas and French woven blue-and-white rugs will be forever in my memory.”[11] Her work has been published and photographed extensively, in such magazines as Architectural Digest, Elle Décor,[12] Veranda,[13] Traditional Home,[14] Southern Accents[15] and Western Interiors.
[citation needed] Showers opened her own boutique and showroom in the Dallas Design District, which more-than-doubled in size over the next 10 years.
[21] Architectural Digest featured her showroom, saying, “In every vignette there’s at least one mirror.…….It’s airy and has the same glamour as the movies of the 1940s.”[22] Unable to consistently find the kind of furnishings she and her clients wanted, Showers established a furniture collection in 1999.
[24] The Jan Showers Collection consists of over 150 pieces, including a variety of furnishings as well as Murano glass lighting.
[28] and in 2014 Showers designed a ceramic lighting collection in collaboration with ceramist Paul Schneider, as well as a collection of Oushak rugs for Moattar, Ltd. Jan Showers, Carleton Varney (Dorothy Draper) and Laura Hunt designed showhouses for the Robert A.M. Stern Residences at the Ritz Carlton Dallas in the spring of 2010[29] In 2009, Abrams Books published Glamorous Rooms, a photography-centered book featuring Showers’ design projects and emphasizing her attention to detail, and her trademark blending of Hollywood high style, mid-century modernism and classic pieces from the 18th and 19th centuries.
The fact that they will still look amazing decades from now speaks to her real success as a designer.”[31] Abrams published her second book, Glamorous Retreats, in fall of 2013, which will feature vacation/second homes from Palm Beach, Nantucket, Vail, Telluride, Malibu and Toronto, as well as many other locales.