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Live Beautiful Hardcover – Illustrated, 3 March 2020

by Athena Calderone (Author)

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Beautiful design isn’t just pleasant to look at; it improves the quality of our lives. It helps foster the traditions, rituals, and ceremonies we create in our homes. In Live Beautiful, the highly anticipated design book by Athena Calderone, the EyeSwoon creator taps into her 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. With each homeowner, Calderone explores the initial spark of inspiration that incited the design journey and the deeply personal objects, stories, and references that accompanied it. She then breaks down the details of the rooms―like layered textures and patterns, collected pieces, and customized vignettes―and offers helpful tips and advice on how to bring these elevated elements into your own space. Filled with gorgeous photography by Nicole Franzen, Live Beautiful is both a showpiece of exquisite design and a guide to creating a home that’s unique and thoughtfully put together.

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Language : English
Hardcover : 256 pages
ISBN-10 : 1419742809
ISBN-13 : 978-1419742804

Best Sellers Rank: 600 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 1 in Decorating
- 1 in Decorative Arts
- 3 in Home & Household

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"Athena has masterfully curated a collection of truly remarkable examples of beauty meeting pragmatism. This book is so full of inspiration it almost feels like cheating when you realize she has given you the clues to replicate each stunning project. I will forever use this as a source for all my design dreams, both the practical and elaborate."
--Olivia Wilde

"Athena's beautiful book is a testament to her incredible skill set. The true talent of a designer is to not just create a beautiful and functional space, but recognize something special and individual, based on those who will be living there. This is so true of Athena. Each space displayed in her book shows an innate understanding of the individual, and despite each being completely distinctive, Athena recognizes the beauty of the uniqueness. The more time I spend reading, the more I learn that there is no design rule book as to what something should be. Athena's book is a true exploration of what it can be."
--Naomi Watts

"Athena brings her exquisite curatorial eye to everything she does, and this book is no exception. Live Beautiful is a voyeuristic adventure that I honestly devoured at the same pace as some of my favorite novels!"
--Emma Roberts "founder of Belletrist"

"Athena not only Lives Beautiful, but she Teaches Beautiful. This book is filled with her wisdom, insight, and direction on how to create and curate a space that will always feel like home."
--Bobby Berk "interior designer and star of Netflix's Queer Eye"

"I don't know how Athena does it. I just know that I can't. At least this book might help."
--Laura Brown "Editor-in-Chief of InStyle"

"If you're looking to become deeply inspired and fall in love with design all over again, this is the book. There is something so ethereal about Athena and everything she does--and this book is no exception. Not only are her own spaces beyond divine, she found the same kind of magic in so many others' homes that we are lucky enough to peek into. Athena knows how to break the mold and I am forever inspired by her work."
--Amber Lewis "founder of Amber Interiors Design Studio"

"In her inherently articulate and swoonworthy way, Athena unpacks the collective beauty of the diverse interiors in this book and distills it through her personal and highly passionate lens to offer the strategic hows and whys of the creative design journey. A truly inviting celebration of beautiful spaces."
--Kelly Wearstler "founder of Kelly Wearstler Interior Design"

About the Author

Athena Calderone is the creator of the lifestyle site EyeSwoon and author of the James Beard award–winning cookbook Cook Beautiful. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Celia

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19 August 2020

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Lovely book with numerous photos of lovely homes. It showcased styling ideas and the write up on how the home owners worked to create the look is informative. Like it's title, I do want to live beautiful, not about an extravagant home, but my home beautiful in its own ways, in my eyes. I am happy with the purchase.

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Elizabeth

A well done book for ... a very select audience.

10 March 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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I will admit that I had high hopes for this book. I have followed Ms. Calederone for years and pre-ordered her first (truly wonderful – I hope there is soon another) cookbook. I admire everything she has been able to build and have long admired her interiors. I fully expected to love this book. However .. I do not. Ms. Caledrone recently started a podcast called “More Than One Thing” and I feel like that phrase could be tweaked here to describe this book … “Not Quite Anything.”

What is Live Beautiful? I didn’t expect any kind of “how-to” book, and it's certainly not that. Nor is it an introduction to her design work. Yes, her own two homes are in it, but, at least for fans, this book does not provide any additional pictures of rooms we haven’t already seen. She is a cookbook author, and there isn’t even one full picture of her kitchen in her Hamptons home. Nor are there any other projects from her portfolio – I was frankly expecting at least one or two additional ones, especially as she has recently been describing herself first and foremost as an interior designer.

Instead, it’s a compilation of other people’s homes. However, as some of the other reviewers have commented, many of these properties have been extensively published elsewhere. They are all lovely, albeit mostly of a certain, very well-done style. Think Parisian/Euro apartments with herringbone floors and marble fireplaces which have been redone to include a lot of Serge Mouille lights and modern art, slab marble kitchen backsplashes, and simple platform beds dressed in unadorned linens. I think there is a very good chance that every one of these homes contains a bottle of Aesop hand soap. They are lovely, but rather monotonous, and even after repeated viewings I would be hard pressed to pick a page and be able to describe which property it belongs to – except for one property in the Hamptons that begins to come a little close to something featured on Hoarders.

And then, finally, there is her editorial voice. I’ve noticed this a bit in her cookbook and some of her Instagram posts. It can be a bit breathy and effusive, with a very slight tendency to wander into self-aggrandizement. Yet she still comes off as lovely and helpful (and I’m also aware here of how critical I am being … I shudder to think how someone listening to me speak might try to summarize my voice!) But here, the voice is just a bit too … much. It’s overdone and unnecessary. Ironically, because I think Ms. Calderone is a very talented designer, with a true ability to create simple, striking spaces, she cannot seem to convey ideas in simple or striking prose. A sample “Something about Copenhagen lights an incandescent fuse in me; the intersectionality of food, design, and lifestyle profoundly resonates, and I suppose it’s not surprising that several of my dearest friends hail from this sophisticated Nordic city.” Whew. All of this to introduce the home of a well-known Danish interior designer whom Ms. Calderone has not met, but rest assured “I have been in Signe’s orbit for years.” Ok then.

So what is this book? I think if you love this particular style, and you would like a coffee table book of homes in this style to flip through – this is your book. It’s very well done and wonderful to look at. But beyond that, I’m not too sure who exactly this book is for. Unfortunately, it’s not for me, but I hope that soon I am able to read another one of her cookbooks, or perhaps see some new projects that she has done.

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Sally in Malibu

Lacks diversity! Where are the author’s friends and colleagues of color?

4 March 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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It’s a beautiful book with gorgeous homes and designs. I was just extremely disappointed to find a huge lack of diversity. Maybe all the author’s friends and colleagues of color declined to be featured in her book? Whatever the reason is, I think I would have enjoyed this book so much more if there were people of all skin colors in the book, showing their styles, inspirations and designs.

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NYC

Majority of book is focused on other designers, not Athena Calderone

5 March 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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Disappointed that most of the pages are focused on other designers. Had I known that upfront, I wouldn't have purchased the book. I think that should have been made clear in the marketing of the book

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Brooklyn Mama

Live Boringly

5 March 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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The houses and apartments featured were really not very interesting and did not offer anything that we’ve not seen before. Dull!

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Rodman

Beautifully styled and photographed

7 March 2020 - Published on Amazon.com

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A beautiful book that is well worth the $30+ dollars. While most of these homes have been featured in other publications before and heavily liked/tagged on Instagram (the homes Jenna Lyon, Nate Berkus, Roman & Williams, etc.), it’s nice to have them in one publication (so I don’t have to scroll through my saved photos on IG). In today’s world, it would be hard to present something that hasn’t made its way around social media.
This book will definitely appeal to people with a specific design sensibility. There are some recurring pieces (Serge Mouille lamps galore, Jeanneret and Prouve chairs), but there is enough diversity in style to keep it interesting. I especially like the fact sheet, which gives a brief background on the home, and the homeowners favorite resources for furniture/art.

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