NEO-VANITY

Historically, there are only a few elements of domestic architecture that have revealed more about human leisure, popular culture, and evolving social customs than the vanity table or a dressing room. While few could afford them, they have provided a home within the home to celebrate beauty, autonomy, and eroticism. Today, Kiki Goti, alters our perception of “Neo-Vanity” to share a new transitional and dressing space that expresses exuberance and a Neo-futuristic environment for all to enjoy within the home––especially for those who perhaps enjoy the process of “getting ready” just as much as the large event itself. Simultaneously, Goti’s collection investigates a new, playful design language to perfectly balance utility with the feminine. She personifies her pieces––a pendant light, side table, modular mirror, and the main protagonist, a standing vanity–– as subjects to be dressed and accessorized. Upon aluminum forms, which are fabricated by New York-based metalworker Mark Malecki, Goti applies her signature hand-painted foam pieces to dress and drape them. Thereafter, Goti imbues the foam segments with hand-painted Balkan motifs derived from folkloric textiles in celebration of her Greek heritage.

Born and raised in Thessaloniki Greece, Kiki Goti is a Greek architect, designer, and educator currently based in Brooklyn, New York.
As a maker, Goti hybridizes materials and fabrication methods to explore relationships between color, texture, heritage, and identity. The result is a boundless pop vernacular, via object and environment, that reshapes preconceived notions of aesthetics and brightens our human experience.
Goti’s work has been featured in Financial Times, Corriere Della Sera, Wallpaper*, Highsnobiety, Dezeen, ICON, AD France, Interior Design Magazine, ELLE Decoration, FRAME, Design Milk, Arch Daily, and many more.