At the Apollo Palm Hotel, designer Mariette Sans-Rival married the bustle of Athens city life to the simple pleasures of waking up in the Greek islands to create 48 guest rooms with an airy polish: "Sometimes white sheets in the morning light contain the poetry of a sculpture," she says. And shades of white dominate, from creamy upholstered furniture (Sans-Rival loves what she calls a "talkative" armchair) to paints chosen for their light-reflecting qualities. Also on Sans-Rival’s mind as she conceptualized the project was the slippery light itself: "I discerned these different attitudes during the day, and I magnified them with yellow, white, and gold," she says.
The founder of eponymous design studio Mariette Sans-Rival shares her picks for channeling the look of the 48-room Apollo Palm Hotel in Athens, Greece, in your own home. bruno rey chair
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