Living Gift Guides:

A Special MyTheresa Gift Guide (AKA Presents They’ll Actually Want)

Design The Essentials:

Holiday Decorations That Are Seasonal Yet Stylish

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Holiday Decorations That Are Seasonal Yet Stylish

How I Designed My 20-Foot Marble Floating Kitchen Shelf

Design:

How I Designed My 20-Foot Marble Floating Kitchen Shelf

The Design Lovers Gift Guide

Living Gift Guides:

The Design Lovers Gift Guide

The Ultimate Doggy Gift Guide

Design The Essentials:

The Ultimate Doggy Gift Guide

Living Gift Guides:

The Ultimate Hostess Gift Guide

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The Ultimate Hostess Gift Guide

EyeSwoon Unplugged: Beef Bourguignon

Food The Bite:

EyeSwoon Unplugged: Beef Bourguignon

EyeSwoon Unplugged: A Date with Autumn Squash

Food EyeSwoon Unplugged:

EyeSwoon Unplugged: A Date with Autumn Squash

EyeSwoon Unplugged: Vanilla Ginger Pear Crostata

Food The Bite:

EyeSwoon Unplugged: Vanilla Ginger Pear Crostata

Double Kismet Dog Bowl – Ebonized Oak by Athena Calderone x The Wooden Palate

Single Kismet Dog Bowl – Fumed Oak by Athena Calderone x The Wooden Palate

Double Kismet Dog Bowl – White Oak by Athena Calderone x The Wooden Palate

Single Kismet Dog Bowl – Ebonized Oak by Athena Calderone x The Wooden Palate

Necessary Objects

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Living Gift Guides:

Found: The Best Gifts Under $200

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Found: The Best Gifts Under $200

40 Wellness Gifts to Make Their Lives Happier and Healthier

Living Gift Guides:

40 Wellness Gifts to Make Their Lives Happier and Healthier

Stocking Stuffers That Don’t Skimp on Style

Gift Guides:

Stocking Stuffers That Don’t Skimp on Style

A Gift for Every Home Cook in Your Life

Living Gift Guides:

A Gift for Every Home Cook in Your Life

the Books

Live Beautiful

From celebrated design expert Athena Calderone, a look into how interior designers and creatives decorate their spaces. Click here to order today & snoop our upcoming book tour events!

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Cook Beautiful

Where design meets food, where culinary tradition marries food styling, where home chefs become experts.

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Introducing the Kismet Dog Bowl designed by Athena Calderone + The Wooden Palate. Because dogs deserve good design too!

@athenacalderone x @thewoodenpalate

I believe in the fantasy of design. I believe in the beauty of design. I believe in the whimsy of design. I believe in the power of design. I believe in my friends who create exceptional design!

@thefutureperfect @rogangregory @studiogiancarlovalle @ruemmler_ @designmiami

Just a friendly reminder to smile. And relentlessly commit to do what makes you come alive.

Knit dress perfection @christopher_esber #athenacalderonedesign

I live by the “less is more” philosophy leaning into quality over quantity, always! And this sentiment can be seen across every discipline in my practice. I believe the core selection of materials and furniture that creates the foundation of a room is akin to those investment pieces of your capsule wardrobe. This becomes the framework of your personal style or your design blueprint, allowing you to mix, match, and embellish with decorative accents.

I’ve selected More Than One Thing (pun intended) from @mytheresa.com on today’s eye-swoon.com gift guide. Because we all need to wear clothes. And we all like to look cute! #athenacalderonedesign

If you had to distill a singular thing that has warmed your heart this holiday weekend what would it be? For me, just being a Mom! I hope everyone is feeling restored and filled with gratitude 🤎 #athenacalderonedesign

For lovers of neutrals… Tone on tone… Of subtle nuanced pattern… This the GAMBIT in natural + taupe.
And I love her

BROKEN SYMMETRY @beni_rugs x @athenacalderone
Photo @simonpwatson

I often preach the importance of investment pieces in design—those classics that stand the test of time and outlive trends. I apply the same approach to my wardrobe, too. By now we are all well aware of my undying love for @tiffanyandco jewels. Ahem... my chunky hardware link necklace and black onyx T pendant I wear on the daily! Like a crisp white poplin button-down, Tiffany’s pieces are timeless, elevating any outfit from everyday to elegant.

To celebrate the holiday season and the new Tiffany pop-up in the heart of NYC’s West Village, I decided to adorn myself in their newest knot collection that’s both stylish and classic, two things we can always count on from Tiffany. So, go on, dream of all the sparkly things at this literal jewel box of a pop-up. More in my stories!

Loves to set a spread and dress the table almost as much as she loves to obsessively twirls her hair. 🤌🏼

Happy Thanksgiving 🍂

Photo: @tarasgroi

CURRENTLY IN MY OVEN
Olive oil, pumpkin, chocolate chip loaf — what’s your Thanksgiving morning breakfast?
Recipe on eye-swoon.com, link in stories. #eyeswooneats

My god, I love them!

Thank you @voguemagazine @rachelbesser & @bfa for these precious captures from my @mytheresa.com dinner

Because our pups deserve design too! 🐾

My Kismet dog bowl collaboration with @thewoodenpalate is exclusively available on athenacalderone.com #athenacalderonedesign

Who says Thanksgiving is reserved for Turkey? I’m all for and breaking tradition (and ease) so I’m advocating for a beef stew you can prepare days in advance! With all the traditional turkey-day sides of course. Cause let’s face it, they have always been the stars on the table anyway!

The coziest and heartiest and veggiest Beef bourguignon recipe on todays eye-swoon.com #eyeswooneats #eyeswoonunplugged

An amazing week. A highly creative and rewarding week. An emotional week. An overwhelming amount of pressure kind of week. A week that revealed an unsustainable level of output. Nothing is ever one thing is it? Today is exclusively reserved for family and restoration. Also, for mental sanity the whole month of January off? Certainly gonna try!

A momentary clean slate #athenacalderonedesign

Doubles? Singles? Double singles?
Black on black? Black and stainless? We’ve though of ALL the varied options for your chic AF dog bowl needs.

The Wooden Palate x Athena Calderone — Kismet Dog Bowls are available on AthenaCalderone.com

@thewoodenpalate
Photo @winniewow
Staring @tucocalderone

This is 47
This is me at my purest self
This is me choosing what’s true
Post a weekend with my son
Post a morning at the dog park
Post brunch with my mama
Post bath replete with candles and tunes
And anticipating the return of my man

If this year around the sun has taught me anything it’s to choose only what feels good. What is pure. What is simple. What makes my heart complete.

Educating the eye

Mom. Son. Hermès. Frank Sinatra.

What a night! Thank you @hermes #grandsoir

So damn excited to announce my newest product launch The Kismet Dog Bowls designed in collaboration with @thewoodenpalate.

Available exclusively on AthenaCalderone.com and featured in todays @archdigest gift guide!

We are firm believers that decorative items can serve a utilitarian purpose, too. Case in point, our one-of-a-kind dog bowl designed by Athena Calderone in collaboration with The Wooden Palate beautifully unites form and function. Thoughtfully crafted by hand from white oak, fumed oak, or ebonized oak, with a stainless steel double bowl or single bowl variation that holds up to three cups of dry food or water. You can also choose to upgrade to a tonal porcelain bowl with engraving available for that individual touch. Because dogs deserve good design too, right? They are, after all, part of the family!

Photos: @winniewow
Staring: @tucocalderone

Every morning my brother sends me a quote. A blessing. A prayer. And each day, as I rise, I look forward to his beautiful message and commitment. This was today:

Be grateful for every second of every day that you get to spend with the people you love. Life is so very precious.

It really is that simple 🖤

my workshop, in my worksuit
@closedofficial 🤌🏼 #athenacalderonedesign

How I love the harmonic and disharmonic cadence of shapes. Broken Symmetry, Boundaries — designed by @athenacalderone for @beni_rugs

Photo: @a_gaut #athenacalderonedesign

Shapes, composition, texture, color, contrast, and flavors. I think of all of these things when I am developing a recipe and plating a dish. I am never not infusing my love of culinary with my eye for design—can’t help it.

Bitter endive and pink radicchio with pear, dates, blue cheese, and candied walnuts. Dressed in a citrus vinaigrette with Dijon and a touch of honey. Finished with fresh orange juice and zest. Super vibrant with just the right balance of bitter, this is one of those Thanksgiving recipes that will counterbalance all the rich flavors we indulge in over the holidays.

This recipe and more Thanksgiving faves on todays eye-swoon.com #eyeswooneats

Shooting a very exciting design collaboration with @thewoodenpalate today 🐾 #athenacalderonedesign #eyeswoongiftguides

There’s no denying that food is our greatest unifier. In Cook Beautiful I wrote; “A shared meal nourishes so much more than our bodies—it feeds our souls. It ignites our senses. It evokes a time and place we long to hold on to and remember.”

The truth is, there’s nothing quite like the merriment, connection, and fulfillment a simple gathering around a table of food can bring. If you share this culinary fondness with someone special, then we know you’ll find the perfect present in our best gifts for cooks guide.

A GIFT FOR EVERY HOME COOK IN YOUR LIFE is now available on eye-swoon.com by @sacha.strebe Photo @tarasgroi #eyeswoongiftguides

When you hone your eye for design, you know exactly what you like and what you don’t! Your visual attraction syncs up with your inner desires and you naturally gravitate toward the objects, shapes, and textures that make your soul skip a beat and your retinas light up. If you share this quest to live beautiful with a friend or kin, then ’tis the season to spoil them with the best gifts for interior design lovers. And while we’re sure that you enjoy the hunt for “the one” too, we did a little web sleuthing for you and found a bevy of beauties that are sure to warm the hearts and spaces of your beloved. 🖊 @sacha.strebe

Welcome to The Design Lovers Gift Guide on eye-swoon.com 🖤 #eyeswoongiftguides #athenacalderonedesign

Quite possibly my favorite room in all of NYC. Manifesting a dinner here @salon94

I know, I know, it’s Halloween but truthfully it’s never really been my kinda holiday. For me, historically, this day has always represented quintessential crisp fall weather, the start of cosy meals like beef stew, red wine, and copious amounts of cheese and charcuterie. Happy Sunday all! 🧀 #eyeswooneats

I needed my friend