The Interior Design Trend We’re Bringing Home

For her latest collaboration with Crate and Barrel Athena embraced the concept during the selection: in the A Coste glassware, the Pompeii pedestal, the Cannelée vase sequence, mugs, and linen lamp shades. It all began in the fluted portal entry of her Brooklyn lavatory, a space in her dwelling that provided minor utility—or as most designers could possibly see it, an chance to make an area as impactful as achievable. “On my master ground, architecture educated the house,” Athena points out in her e book Stay Wonderful. “Grand double doorways led to the master rest room, boasting an old-world model bathtub, plaster walls, and a marble fire, but the hallway in in between served no objective,” she proceeds.

The answer lies in classical architecture. “Obsessed with accumulating plinths and pillars for the residence, I was attracted to ancient Greek marble columns, but it was not until finally I noticed a wood-paneled room at the University of Padua built by Gio Ponti that I found what I was following. I wrapped fluted plaster up the walls and over the ceiling…,” she claims. Athena introduced in Kamp Studios to convey her eyesight to everyday living and the search has soared in acceptance ever considering the fact that (not to point out cemented their status as the chief in the outdated-planet plaster technique).