The Interior Design Trend We’re Bringing Home

For her the latest collaboration with Crate and Barrel Athena embraced the plan throughout the collection: in the A Coste glassware, the Pompeii pedestal, the Cannelée vase series, mugs, and linen lamp shades. It all started in the fluted portal entry of her Brooklyn rest room, a area in her dwelling that presented tiny utility—or as most designers may see it, an possibility to make an place as impactful as attainable. “On my grasp flooring, architecture knowledgeable the space,” Athena clarifies in her book Dwell Attractive. “Grand double doorways led to the learn lavatory, boasting an aged-world design bathtub, plaster partitions, and a marble fireplace, but the hallway in among served no reason,” she continues.

The solution lies in classical architecture. “Obsessed with amassing plinths and pillars for the household, I was captivated to historical Greek marble columns, but it wasn’t till I observed a wooden-paneled space at the College of Padua designed by Gio Ponti that I discovered what I was immediately after. I wrapped fluted plaster up the walls and above the ceiling…,” she claims. Athena introduced in Kamp Studios to convey her eyesight to lifetime and the appear has soared in recognition at any time due to the fact (not to point out cemented their status as the chief in the previous-environment plaster method).