Using curiosity as a guiding principle, interior designer, author, and creative director, Athena Calderone seeks to amplify the quiet connectivity between objects to craft her visual chemistry. Her design practice is built upon the ethos that every project embraces the unexpected, replacing symmetry with spontaneous opposition to curate elevated, nuanced, and soulful homes. Athena’s process is defined by an innate yearning for emotion and experimentation, seeking both tension and restraint to bring the inarticulate to life. By engaging in this hidden dialogue, Athena offers a unique lens on the aesthetic world around us. This creative doctrine is at the essence of her multidisciplinary approach that spans interior design, food, entertaining, creative direction, writing, and most recently product development. Whether she is layering flavors in the kitchen, setting a bountiful table, or designing an entire room, Athena is renowned for her graceful yet juxtaposed pairings. Across her creative endeavors, she is fueled by her belief that beautiful food and thoughtful design bring people together and turn little moments into lasting memories. Athena is the best-selling author of design tome, Live Beautiful which has sold over 250K copies and remains the #1 décor book on Amazon, and the James Beard award-winning cookbook, Cook Beautiful, both published by Abrams. Her podcast, More Than One Thing, focuses on multi-hyphenate talents like herself whose creative interests have led them on a nonlinear career path. Athena’s interview style immediately resonated with listeners reaching more than 250K downloads in her first season and positioning MTOT in the Apple podcast top 100. Athena has been featured in Vogue, Architectural Digest, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair, Harper’s Bazaar, InStyle, Elle Décor, and New York Magazine. As an internationally recognized tastemaker, Athena has graced the covers of Vogue Living, AD Spain, and Living Etc.