Kiki Goti is a Greek-born architect, designer, and educator based in New York City whose multidisciplinary practice merges experimental making with critical theory. Through a deeply personal and material-driven approach, Goti hybridizes fabrication techniques—blending traditional craftsmanship with contemporary technologies—to explore the intersections of color, texture, heritage, and identity. Her work spans furniture, public sculpture, and interior objects, all grounded in a rigorous examination of femininity, ornamentation, and the cultural codes embedded within design.
Goti’s oeuvre challenges conventional hierarchies between art and craft, often drawing from art historical motifs to reimagine decorative traditions through a distinctly feminist lens. Her pieces are as conceptual as they are tactile—imbued with a poetic sense of form and a reverence for material expression.
Her work has garnered international attention and has been featured in The New York Times, Financial Times, Corriere della Sera, Wallpaper*, Highsnobiety, Dezeen, Elle Decor, AD, Interior Design Magazine, Casa Vogue, Design Milk, and ArchDaily.
An active educator, Goti currently teaches at Pratt Institute and Parsons School of Design, and has previously held academic positions at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania.
In 2024, Goti debuted the Nuphar Mirror—part of her Muses Collection—at Collectible, produced in collaboration with Vetralia. Inspired by the mystical elegance of water lilies, the piece is a luminous tribute to the feminine mystique, celebrating the sensual qualities of glass through soft, aqueous textures and radiant reflectivity. An exclusive new collection in this sensibility will debut with Todd Merrill Studio in Fall 2025.
Her Graces series, first unveiled at Alcova during Milan’s Salone del Mobile, further exemplifies her nuanced engagement with femininity. Hand-blown in Venice using traditional Murano glassmaking techniques, each vase evokes the classical Greek goddesses of beauty and creativity. Conceived as sculptural figures adorned with glass embellishments, the works transcend ornament to embody the dual nature of femininity—at once strong and fragile, ethereal and exuberant.
