Dressing Tables and Vanities That Add Glamour
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In the master bedroom of fashion editor Nina Garcia’s apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, the Jean-Michel Frank desk, which also serves as a dressing table, displays a bronze lamp by the same designer; the triptych mirror, from 1stdibs, was formerly owned by Geoffrey Beene.
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The dressing table in the bath of Suzanne Kasler’s Atlanta home is by Nancy Corzine, as is the mirror; the chair is a Kasler design for Hickory Chair.
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In a Manhattan triplex designed by Stephen Sills, a built-in vanity complements the dressing room’s wood paneling.
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An Art Deco dressing table is a grace note in the master bath of a New York apartment decorated by Mario Buatta.
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The master dressing room of a historic English country house decorated by Robert Couturier includes a 1950s Ponti desk and chair and a circa-1910 dressing-table mirror.
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Vintage Fornasetti pin dishes rest atop the mirrored vanity in the bath of a New York apartment renovated by architect Steven Harris and designer Lucien Rees Roberts.
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A Parsons-style dressing table is paired with a stool by Desiron in the master bath of architect Frank Greenwald’s Sag Harbor, New York, retreat, which was decorated by Mary Foley and Michael Cox.
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A large mirror hangs above a dressing table in the master bedroom of philanthropists Sandy and Joan Weil’s Sonoma Valley, California, retreat, which was decorated by Mica Ertegun.
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Designer Monique Gibson placed a mirrored vanity in the master bath of a Charleston, South Carolina, home.
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At actress Jane Fonda’s New Mexico ranch, the dressing table is surmounted by silver Mexican milagros.
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Fashion and jewelry designer Veronica Toub chose a feminine skirted dressing table for the master bedroom of her Paris apartment, which was renovated by architect Laurent Bourgois.
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In an Arizona home by architect Marwan Al-Sayed and designer Jan Showers, the master suite’s dressing area features a custom-made console, a Jan Showers Collection vanity chair, and a 1940s French armchair.
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A tufted slipper chair is an elegant accompaniment to a built-in vanity in the dressing area of a Southern California home by architect Richard Landry and designer Craig Wright.
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Architect Carlos Aparicio placed a 1930s dressing table next to the window in the master bedroom of a Manhattan high-rise apartment.
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In the ladies’ lounge of a Houston home designed by Miles Redd, the marquetry* bureau plat* at left and the Georgian-style secretary bookcase are set up as dressing tables.
