The Interior Design Trend We’re Bringing Home

For her new collaboration with Crate and Barrel Athena embraced the idea through the selection: in the A Coste glassware, the Pompeii pedestal, the Cannelée vase collection, mugs, and linen lamp shades. It all started off in the fluted portal entry of her Brooklyn bathroom, a room in her home that made available small utility—or as most designers could see it, an option to make an space as impactful as attainable. “On my grasp floor, architecture informed the area,” Athena points out in her e-book Are living Lovely. “Grand double doors led to the learn lavatory, boasting an aged-world type bathtub, plaster walls, and a marble fireplace, but the hallway in concerning served no reason,” she carries on.

The answer lies in classical architecture. “Obsessed with amassing plinths and pillars for the home, I was captivated to historic Greek marble columns, but it was not until finally I observed a wood-paneled space at the University of Padua intended by Gio Ponti that I found what I was soon after. I wrapped fluted plaster up the partitions and about the ceiling…,” she says. Athena brought in Kamp Studios to bring her vision to lifetime and the appear has soared in acceptance at any time because (not to point out cemented their standing as the chief in the aged-earth plaster procedure).