mood board: Old-World and New-World Glam
Alexia Rossetti Thursday, January 12, 2012 at 10:01AM 
We all dream of the glamorous life: jetsetting to Paris, designer clothes, and throwing fabulous cocktail parties amidst a gorgeous setting. I can't help you with the travel or the clothes, but here's how you can reproduce that glamorous room with our mood boards of the month: Old-World and New-World Glam. Lounge back, sip a cocktail and enjoy!
When you fantasize glamorous settings, you probably picture old Hollywood sets starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers or the French Art Deco interiors full of Jean-Michel Frank, Lalique, and Emile-Jacque Ruhlmann furniture (okay, maybe that's just me). These furnishings and style may have come from the 1930s and 1940s but they’re still being copied to this day, showing that true glamour never goes out of style.
The hallmark of glamorous rooms is the use of beautiful, elegant materials, sometimes exotic, but always in the best of taste. Usually, there is an element of sparkle or glitter, typically in the form of mirrors or crystal. The furniture selected must also show elegant lines and shape and not a clunky form.
On the mood board of Old-World Glam, we have reproductions of furnishings representing that Old Hollywood era of the 1930s and 1940s. In the top photo, we show a 1940s duchesse-brisè - a type of two piece lounge chair - by designer Helene Aumont. The lounge chair is upholstered in an elegant silk velvet. To lend some sparkle to the room, we have a gilded mirror and wood screen by Mary McDonald. A favorite exotic wood in the 1930s-40s was macassar ebony – shown here in the Antidote cabinet from Holly Hunt. A side table in mahogany, Deco Tulip Table, shows off curved tulip-shaped legs, available from Deco2MidCentury Furniture at Center44. Art Deco prints by the Russian-born French designer Erte completes the decor.
Our second mood board, New World Glam, displays a more current translation of glamour. For the main seating, we have a gently-curved sofa, the Triomphe, by Holly Hunt, with a more contemporary silhouette. We introduced acrylic furniture to the room – a material used more and more in the past twenty years – in the tufted Glamour bench by Sunpan. Providing the necessary sparkle is a mirror drum table by Interior Illusions as well as the large Venetian antique mirror which recalls earlier glamorous interiors. To add a unique element, we have a chandelier made of blown-glass in the shape of wine glasses, called Carillon, and designed by jGoodDesign. The final touch is an Art Deco Belgian vase by Catteau, showing off a stylized deer. The vase is from the Modernism Gallery.
Interested in learning how to create mood boards? Take a look at Sheffield School's Complete Course in Interior Design. At Sheffield, you will learn how to transform a space, create color schemes, and select furniture, lighting, and accessories.
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