Design Room Swoon:

How I Style My Coffee Table

Design The Essentials:

Found: Stylish Dorm Room Décor

Yes, it's possible.

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Found: Stylish Dorm Room Décor

We’re Positively Swooning Over Bouclé Furniture

Design:

We’re Positively Swooning Over Bouclé Furniture

Room Swoon: Shop My Kitchen Shelves

Design Room Swoon:

Room Swoon: Shop My Kitchen Shelves

Shop Athena’s Tablescape Essentials

Design:

Shop Athena’s Tablescape Essentials

Food Eyeswoon Kitchen:

8 Summer Salad Recipes to Whip Up in a Pinch

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8 Summer Salad Recipes to Whip Up in a Pinch

EyeSwoon Unplugged: Rhubarb Tart

Food The Bite:

EyeSwoon Unplugged: Rhubarb Tart

EyeSwoon Unplugged: Strawberry Burrata Salad

Food The Bite:

EyeSwoon Unplugged: Strawberry Burrata Salad

Grilled Summer Fish

Food EyeSwoon Unplugged:

Grilled Summer Fish

Athena Calderone x Beau Rush Petit Footed Bowl

Vence Sconce by Athena Calderone x Simone Bodmer-Turner

Cultiver Cara Edged Napkins

White Pedestal Bowl

Necessary Objects

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Living Entertaining:

An intimate beach dinner with Zimmermann

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An intimate beach dinner with Zimmermann

From Antique to Unique: 21 Planters to Bring the Outdoors In

Living:

From Antique to Unique: 21 Planters to Bring the Outdoors In

28 Essentials to Elevate Your Home Laundry Experience (Yes, It’s Possible!)

Living The Essentials:

28 Essentials to Elevate Your Home Laundry Experience (Yes, It’s Possible!)

My Must-Have Kitchen Essentials

Living The Essentials:

My Must-Have Kitchen Essentials

the Books

Live Beautiful

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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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Whoot whoot.
Our coffee table styling post on EyeSwoon.com is our highest engaging post to date. Do tell what resonated with you most so we can continue to create more of what you crave!

Architecture + Form + Materiality at its finest

Design @marplusask

Shot something super beautiful last week and I am just bursting to share with you all — September cannot come soon enough!

The year, 2006. The mission, to design my 3 year old's bedroom to be thoughtful, childlike, and playful and yet fit within the aesthetic of the rest of our home. Little did I know this endeavor would peak my interest in design, and become the first ever product I conceived — a live edge growth chart. Sent me back to school, inspired an internship, launched a design business, and became that gateway into a new career. BUT, this post is not about me. It’s about Jivan. And the many bedrooms he and I have designed together over the years. I have always believed that a 3 year old, a 6 year old, a 10 year old, and an 18 year old all deserve a sacred and private space that they had a hand in crafting. A safe place, a playspace, a workshop, a place to create, a place to brood, a place to decompress, a place to dream. A space to call their own.

Fast forward to 2021, here we are at this unfathomable crossroads and a new design endeavor — Jivan’s college dorm room. Perhaps it is time for me to take a back seat in his very adult and independent space. BUT, I’ll hang on to mommy-ing just a lil bit longer — can’t help myself! I have hounded Jivan for the past weeks to sit down and give me 2 hours (between work & surf) to select his dorm room essentials. I felt it was only right to share our choices with other parents who are navigating this precious and transitional adult moment with their child. Stylish dorm room décor essentials on today’s Eye-Swoon.com

@jivancalderone we are pulling out that growth chart for one last measure before you go! 📏

It’s a balancing act!
Hi, I’m Athena Calderone and I obsessively collect and patiently stack beach rocks.

Where interior architecture and interior design meet — cheers to the beautiful symbiosis of all things design!

@elizabeth_roberts_architects

Photo @selliottphoto

How I love the never ending carousel of visual inspiration that instagram offers!

#ScreenshotSwoon

Nothing enriches the spirit quite like Mother Nature. We are wholly at home in her surroundings which is why, after more than a year of being cooped up inside, all of us are craving the wind in our hair, the smell of rain on our skin, and the splendor of sun kisses on a balmy summer afternoon.

In fact, creating a space that strengthens our connection to her and the outside world has become an act of self-care. So, today, on Eye-Swoon.com we're sharing some of our favorite outdoor furniture to help you design an area where loved ones can gather, and restore their kinship with nature.

Cooling. Crunchy. Sweet. Spicy. Briny.
This summer salad of melon and fennel from #CookBeautiful basically has it all!

Hop on over to today’s eye-swoon.com for a round up of my favorite summer salad recipes to whip up in a pinch — story by @sacha.strebe

Photo @johnny_miller_ with the dream team @rebeccajurkevich + @bartoshesky

Whether you're entertaining friends or preparing a feast for family this weekend, nothing makes our heart burst more than an intimate gathering. Of course, photos of impeccably designed tablescapes can be intimidating and oftentimes, even prevent us from hosting anything at all. But in actuality, the most memorable nights are always the simplest. From the meals to the wine and the table setting décor, without fail, it's the simple, unfussy, and accessible approach that rules, every time.

At first glance, my tablescape designs might appear expertly curated, styled, and expensive, but in reality, it's quite the opposite. When you look closer, there's a formula to my table settings: fresh produce replaces expensive store-bought florals, seasonal hues inspire the color palette, and a little DIY craft goes a long way. It's never precious, but always alluring and definitely beautiful.

So whether you're just serving a meal for yourself or many, pull out your linen napkins, tie it together with leather cord or string, add a fragrant sprig from the garden, and watch your table (and experience) transform. Above all, enjoy the creative freedom, play, and revel in the act of making something beautiful that brings YOU joy.

Head to Eye-Swoon.com for some simple table setting tips to create your dream gathering and then shop the look.

Sex in the city 🖤

I am obsessed with how the brains catalogs all that we see — and how we might reinterpret an amalgamation of various images into our own vision!

I absorb visual inspiration anywhere and everywhere I can. But mostly from Instagram. It still remains the largest source of visual eye candy that makes me swoon on the daily. With so many posts being sponsored and shopable these days (my own included) I wanted to begin a purely visual series that is strictly meant to inspire. Just beautiful images — architecture, food, design, materials, texture, nature, fashion — really anything that catches my eye, then cohesively packaged for you each week.

I hope you have been enjoying #ScreenshotSwoon

Seriously obsessed with deconstructing the creative process so I’ve share it with you here from initial ideation to creation to installation. This sculptural sconce was my first collaborative venture into product design — lead by the ever-talented ceramic artist @simonebodmerturner and I absolutely adored the process 🤍

This is the Vence sconce — available exclusively on athenacalderone.com

You know those moments in life when you can just feel you are on the precipice of change? THIS was that career defining moment for me! When design and food unified and I found a little piece of magic that I could call my own.

Summer 2014. Creative direction work for Cointreau. Wearing Zimmermann. Photo @winniewow

The best design. The best light. The best friends. 🤎 @nateberkus @jeremiahbrent

I’m gonna lean into the moody holiday weekend — how bout you?

PRETTY TINGS THAT INSPIRE
#screenshotswoon

So, I love design. And, I love to share. I also love to distill and divulge any and all design knowledge I have amassed overtime to help others create their dream home!

Excited to announce that I will be offering 1:1 design consultations on @theexpert beginning today!

Link in bio to learn more and book your 1hr consultation. Show me your home! Lets chat all things design. Lets create a beautifully soulful and layered home together. Cannot wait to connect with more of you!

BK has my 🖤
So does this entryway
And so does my T 🐾

#pride #loveislove
SO MUCH LIGHT
SO MUCH LOVE
SO MUCH PRIDE

My sweet baby boy is all grown up!
J, I am unbelievably proud of the beautifully thoughtful and curious man you have become. What a crazy year and what a perfect day to celebrate your HS graduation — you did it @jivancalderone. I love you and believe in you endlessly….. DO WHAT MAKES YOU COME ALIVE! 🎓

The plethora of visual and thus creative inspiration on Instagram is endless. I thought I’d share the images that cause me to stop, take a screenshot, and catalog within the drawers in my mind. Welcome to #ScreenshotSwoon

No branch? Branch? Who’s got an opinion?

It goes without saying that I love to fuse all my worlds together. Design makes its way into my food. And food becomes the gateway which allows my design to come alive through a shared experience. And here, I suppose, yoga and self-care lives amongst design.

One might say that finding yoga in my early 20’s was THE defining moment that cultivated self acceptance in my life. Teaching me to embrace my more-than-one-thing-ness and shed the shame I once carried. So, thank you yoga!

#internationalyogaday (a day late)

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Sometimes it’s all you need

Let the boozy weekend commence!

Now, that we are re-emerging like a chrysalis from our quarantine lives and welcoming friends back into our homes for intimate gatherings again, it's time to give our humble home bars a visual overhaul. When it comes to styling a bar cart, approach it as you would a room. Think about cohesion & contrast, tension, verticality, depth, and meaning just as you would any other space in your home.

Ready to get started? Follow the five tips @sacha.strebe created for how to style a bar cart on eye-swoon.com and welcome friends (and fun) back home!

Bar cart is vintage Matégot
Plaster @kampstudios
Sconce @apparatusstudio

Last night I had the great pleasure of teaching a cooking class to raise money for @homemadeforunicef @unicef. This lemon zucchini pasta right here is summer cooking to the core — no fuss, super fresh, and super simple.

Recipe can be found exclusively in my newsletter. Register TODAY (06.18.21) on www.eye-swoon.com — recipe will come direct to your inbox at 4pm, just in time for the weekend!

Ushering in summer with nighttime swims

The sweetest pup @tucocalderone
The chicest float @oliverjameslilos