Athena Calderone on Aspiration | Traveling Through

Curiosity and travel serve as fundamental catalysts for creative growth and self-discovery. Athena Calderone, a designer and self-taught creative, explains how early experiences in Marrakesh shifted her aesthetic from minimal to patina-rich, while her time in Ibiza and Vienna informed her evolving design vernacular. Travel acts as a bridge between professional design work and personal life, with specific locations like Rome’s Vatican and Paris’s flea markets providing tangible inspiration for her home interiors. By treating travel as a form of research and embracing the awe found in new environments, she maintains a vital, hungry approach to her career. This process of constant exploration allows for the integration of history, craft, and personal memory into living spaces, ultimately transforming how she views both her professional output and her family’s shared experiences.