GOTHAM GLAMOUR

After launching a thriving business that showcased her Instagram-famous Brooklyn town house, Athena Calderone takes on a storied Manhattan apartment and finds a new focus

- SARAH MEDFORD

ATHENA CALDERONE, WEARING A FFORME DRESS AND CHANEL JEWELRY, IN THE KITCHEN OF HER TRIBECA HOME. THE CUSTOM REDLACQUERED ISLAND IS TOPPED WITH KINNEKULLE RED LIMESTONE. THE LEADED GLASS DOORS WERE DESIGNED BY CALDERONE AND AMUNEAL USING BENDHEIM GLASS. THE HERRINGBONE FLOOR IS ORIGINAL AND THE PENDANT LIGHT DATES TO AN EARLIER RENOVATION OF THE SPACE. FASHION STYLING BY ERIN WALSH.

ATHENA CALDERONE GETS EXCITED about parchment. She's big on silver leaf, and crazy for etched glass; niches are ongoing fixations, and figured stone is always a yes. In her last kitchen, she worked at a massive, nearly seven-foot-square island of Calacatta Paonazzo marble—ravishing, until she set her sights on something better. Now she has a monolith of dusky red Kinnekulle limestone to keep her company in the kitchen.

LOOKING FROM THE LIVING ROOM INTO THE KITCHEN'S BREAKFAST NOOK, WHERE THE APARTMENT'S ORIGINAL WOOD PANELING WAS REFINISHED BY THE BROWNSTONE BOYS. OPPOSITE CALDERONE, WEARING A DIOTIMA DRESS AND CHANEL JEWELRY, IN FRONT OF THE LIVING ROOM FIREPLACE. VINTAGE FRENCH SCONCES FLANK A CUSTOM MIRROR.

“I never thought I would get into hardware design,” she says, glancing from her new countertop over to the burnished-nickel pulls on the double doors leading into her new living room. “But with that and everything else, I just felt like I was going to take this moment to expand myself in ways I'd never dreamed of.”