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Shop the Showhouse: Garden-Inspired Interiors from the Pasadena Showcase
Set on five parklike acres in Pasadena, a 1928 estate becomes a canvas for a masterful mix of garden–inspired romance and clubby sophistication — with plenty of Visual Comfort & Co. products to light the way.
Photography by Nolasco Studios
This year's Pasadena Showcase House of Design, a 15,000-square-foot colonial estate originally built in 1928, is nestled on five acres of parklike grounds, and the softness of the surrounding landscape offers a fitting counterpart to the formality of the home's traditional bones. Inside, designers created environments that feel layered, lived-in and luminous, thanks in large part to lighting that serves as a visual anchor, deftly guiding the eye across interiors that take a page from the broad lawns and terraced gardens beyond.
Throughout the home, designers found common ground between two seemingly opposite moods: serenity and refinement. Botanical silhouettes like leafy flush mounts and branchlike chandeliers nod to the grounds without veering into pastiche — a fitting way to honor the home’s original landscape designer, Katherine Bashford, one of the earliest female landscape designers. Elsewhere, layers of deep color and richly patterned wallpaper convey mood, warmth and ambiance. Here, as ever, balance is key. Read on to step inside six garden-inspired moments from the Pasadena Showcase and discover the ways designers used Visual Comfort & Co. lighting to shape each setting.
The home’s traditional aesthetic receives a breath of fresh air in the form of blue-and-white wallpaper and the airy, gilded details of the Clementine 48" Low Wide Tiered Chandelier by Julie Neill. Kitchen Great Room by Rachel Duarte Design Studio
The home’s traditional aesthetic receives a breath of fresh air in the form of blue-and-white wallpaper and the airy, gilded details of the Clementine 48" Low Wide Tiered Chandelier by Julie Neill. Kitchen Great Room by Rachel Duarte Design Studio
Organic shapes abound in the powder room, where a botanical wallpaper interplays with soft curves of a gilded mirror flanked by two Cora Small Sconces by Chapman & Myers. Ladies Powder Room by Jennifer Bevan Interiors
The Hampton Medium Chandelier in Burnished Silver Leaf by AERIN draws the eye upward in the flower room, showcasing a tray ceiling with a latticework motif. Flower Room by Gex Designs
Rich patterns, warm tones and an original fireplace offer English-inspired charm, all illuminated by the Farfalle Medium Chandelier by Julie Neill above and Piaf Single Sconce by Thomas O'Brien at the fireplace. The Library by Julia Chasman Design
In the home's morning room, cheerful wallpaper is the perfect backdrop for the French Market Medium Lantern by Chapman & Myers. Morning Room by Samantha Williams
The Talia 13” Cordless Accent Lamp by Julie Neill helps to create a sense of innate coziness in the blue-and-white space. Morning Room by Samantha Williams
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