For her current collaboration with Crate and Barrel Athena embraced the thought all over the selection: 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 lavatory, a area in her residence that available very little utility—or as most designers could possibly see it, an possibility to make an region as impactful as feasible. “On my learn floor, architecture informed the area,” Athena points out in her guide Are living Stunning. “Grand double doors led to the grasp toilet, boasting an previous-world style bathtub, plaster partitions, and a marble hearth, but the hallway in among served no goal,” she carries on.
The alternative lies in classical architecture. “Obsessed with collecting plinths and pillars for the residence, I was attracted to historic Greek marble columns, but it was not until I noticed a wooden-paneled space at the University of Padua created by Gio Ponti that I discovered what I was just after. I wrapped fluted plaster up the walls and over the ceiling…,” she claims. Athena introduced in Kamp Studios to provide her eyesight to lifestyle and the look has soared in acceptance ever because (not to mention cemented their status as the chief in the outdated-environment plaster approach).
