The first truly glamorous bathroom I remember seeing was the one in Mommy Dearest where Faye Dunaway engages in a complex and bizarre cold cream ritual. Remove the violent episodes and the room you’re left with has the 40s elegance that designer Barbara Barry intended for the Glamour Collection. Part of the Kallista offerings, Barry’s Glamour Collection features black and white contrasts in materials as sexy as lacquer and mirror.

Glamour Collection Whirlpool. Designed by Barbara Barry for Kallista.

Perhaps Barry and Kallista are too nostalgic: “Honoring an era when beautiful things served as a brilliant backdrop for a lifestyle of elegance, simplicity and luxury, the Glamour collection creates a setting of stylish grace”—but I like the anachronistic flair for the dramatic. Everything about the Glamour Collection reads as erotic, beginning with Barry’s own design philosophy: “I like things that are beautiful to the eye and feel good in the hand.” Without getting too graphic, I can certainly think of the ideal candidate that satisfies that criteria. And the innuendo continues: the Whirpool Tub with its variable speed pump; the Mirrored Vanity with its sinuous legs; the Showerhead with its magnificent flow. You may remind me that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but the Glamour Collection virtually drips with sex appeal. The undermount Acrylic Whirpool and Bathtub are like emerald-cut obsidians. The Basin Handles combine square bases with sensuous rising slopes that come to a point only to spread out into faceted rhombus lozenges in ebony or ivory resin. The 10” x 10” ceiling-mounted Showerhead gleams like a square-cut moonstone. But nothing is as resplendent as the Barbara Barry Glamour Collection Mirrored Vanity. At 36″ L x 19.25″ W x 34.25″ H with two commodious doors, a curvaceous backsplash, and sleek lacquer feet, this little number is a perfect gem.

The only drawback to the Glamour Collection is that it makes me want to smoke extra long cigarettes, wear sling-back heels, and act rather impetuously. I’d like to cover the bathroom with gleaming white octagonal tiles, hang up sumptuously soft Egyptian cotton towels, and relax languorously in a silk kimono with matching slippers (the kind with the marabou tufts at the ends). Barbara Barry’s Glamour Collection may inspire bad behavior, but if you can control yourself, the look is worth its weight in gold.