Athena relishes a challenge: she is the woman behind the lifestyle site eye-swoon.com, a stylist, a cook and a writer (her latest book is Live Beautiful) and the opportunity to push herself as an interior designer came in the shape of this brownstone townhouse. ‘I was itching to work on a home that scared me a bit, where I had the scope to juxtapose traditional architecture with my kind of modernity,’ she explains.
She moved here from a contemporary condo in New York (Livingetc visited in March 2014) with her husband Victor Calderone, a music producer and DJ, and their son Jivan, 17. Athena was drawn to the house’s combination of ‘grandeur and grit’ and she couldn’t wait to meld together her favourite architectural influences – plus a good dose of Brooklyn attitude.
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