Athena Calderone on Creating Her Latest Book of Interiors, Live Beautiful #eyeswoon.

Need this book ! I love her style, her interiors and her fabulous recipes on instagram.…

‘From celebrated design expert and interior designer Athena Calderone, a look into how creatives decorate their spaces

Beautiful design isn’t just pleasant to look at; it improves the quality of our lives.
In Live Beautiful, the highly anticipated design book by Athena Calderone, the EyeSwoon creator taps into her international network of interior decorators, fashion designers, and tastemakers to reveal how carefully crafted interiors come together. She also opens the doors to two of her own residences.’

Vogue writes” For 14 months, Athena Calderone ping-ponged between coasts East and West, and further off to Copenhagen and Lyon, with photographer Nicole Franzen in tow to shoot a collection of tastemaking homes for her latest book, Live Beautiful. By the end of it, she was left with design-magazine-cover-worthy interior photography, but also, a selection of images of her standing in, of all places, a bathroom shower with the various homeowners.

“I was looking at all of the behind-the-scenes photos that my assistant had taken and there were all of these images of me in somebody’s shower,” she recalls with amusement, listing all the documented times she needed to step out of the shot and take cover beneath a showerhead with Jenna Lyons, Nate Burkus, and Kearnon O’Molony. “It tickles me because there are these strange moments you find yourself in.”
The candid snapshots speak not only to Calderone’s familiarity with many of the homeowners but also the lengths she’ll go to to get the shot. Read more here at Vogue.

$59  Live Beautiful from Booktopia