The Interior Design Trend We’re Bringing Home

For her modern collaboration with Crate and Barrel Athena embraced the thought in the course of the collection: in the A Coste glassware, the Pompeii pedestal, the Cannelée vase series, mugs, and linen lamp shades. It all begun in the fluted portal entry of her Brooklyn bathroom, a space in her residence that offered very little utility—or as most designers could possibly see it, an chance to make an area as impactful as doable. “On my master ground, architecture educated the area,” Athena describes in her e book Are living Lovely. “Grand double doors led to the grasp lavatory, boasting an aged-environment style bathtub, plaster walls, and a marble hearth, but the hallway in amongst served no reason,” she proceeds.

The solution lies in classical architecture. “Obsessed with gathering plinths and pillars for the household, I was attracted to historic Greek marble columns, but it wasn’t right until I observed a wood-paneled home at the College of Padua created by Gio Ponti that I uncovered what I was after. I wrapped fluted plaster up the walls and in excess of the ceiling…,” she says. Athena introduced in Kamp Studios to bring her vision to lifetime and the seem has soared in reputation at any time because (not to point out cemented their position as the chief in the outdated-globe plaster procedure).