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projects in San Francisco, Hawaii, Nantucket, New Jersey, and the Texas Hill Country. In Dallas, Showers is working with longtime client Kimberly Schlegel Whitman — the lifestyle entrepreneur, au- thor, and Southern Living edi- tor at large — on the interior of her new Preston Hollow home. This is the seventh project Whitman and Showers have worked on together — the first being Whitman's bachelorette pad, when she was a debutante. Is retirement on the radar? Never. "I don't have an exit strategy," Showers says. "Interior de- sign is something I can't imagine ever giving Portrait of Jan, mother Margaret Anne Smith, and brother Steve Smith, 1956 • Pedigree. Through her mother's Melvin family lineage in France, Showers is a descendant of one of Empress Josephine's ladies in wait- ing, who was married to a general in Napoleon's army. They fled to Louisiana when Napoleon was exiled. • Treasure hunt. Helping to open the Preston Center store Out of Africa in 1995, Showers sourced exotic furnishings and goods dur- ing a five-week buying trip to the Ivory Coast, Senegal, Mali, and Marrakech. • Reading. A book a week. Most recently: Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer by Arthur Lubow and The Last Love Song, a biography of Joan Didion. And always, the New York Review of Books. • Take-out lunch. R & D Kitchen's mango noodle chicken salad, which she orders like a scene from Five Easy Pieces — hold the mango, hold the noodles. • No apologies. Apple TV. She watches everything from Orange is the New Black to British mysteries. At the end of a long day, she powers down with Turner Classic Movies. THE PARTICULARS