Shine, Glamour and Lots of Light: Apartment in the USA

The founder and designer of JWS Interiors Jennifer Wagner Schmidt says that working on this apartment was nothing less than a dream job, and you can't call it otherwise. Why not? Because the client, a businesswoman and true fashionista, even before the project started proposed Jennifer to redesign the apartment according to her own taste. All designers would love such clients!

Before the current owner bought the apartment, the interior had not been updated for nearly thirty years and was cluttered with old items stored in wardrobes and attic spaces over the years.

In America, it's common to reuse elements from previous residents' furnishings in new interiors, but here there was nothing to reuse. Everything was removed from the apartment, old finishes were stripped off, and the kitchen was demolished.

For storing belongings in the apartment, a spacious wardrobe with shelves for shoes and clothes was allocated. For small storage items, many dressers, chests of drawers, and console tables were planned. Many of them are mirror-finished. And it's not just beautiful — the abundance of mirrors in the interior reflects light and expands space, even visually.

One of the client's wishes was to have bookshelves, as she had collected a decent collection of various types of literature. Jennifer managed to solve this issue by placing several open shelves, scattered throughout the apartment.

Books were not arranged in dense rows, but distributed in small neat stacks, interspersed with vases and figurines to make even books part of the decor.

And it seems he was given the leading role in this interior. Because design ideas were drawn from the guru of American design, Jonathan Adler, who promotes glamour, chic, and eclecticism in his projects.

Thus, recognizable elements of Adler-style interiors appeared in the apartment — lots of gold, shiny surfaces, furniture on extremely thin legs, as well as chandeliers and vases made of plastic that the designer knows how to present in a surprisingly sophisticated and expensive way.

Even the kitchen is overloaded with decorative elements. The kitchen cabinet was chosen in a rather impractical black color, and the apron was made glossy — striking but terrible for cleaning. However, the businesswoman probably doesn't cook often.