Kiki Goti, Flora, IT, 2025

Kiki Goti, Flora, IT, 2025
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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 techniquesโ€”blending traditional craftsmanship with contemporary technologiesโ€”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.

Gotiโ€™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 tactileโ€”imbued with a poetic sense of form and a reverence for material expression.

In 2024, Goti debuted theย Nuphar Mirrorโ€”part of herย Muses Collectionโ€”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.

Greek designer Kiki Goti presents Muses, a series of mirrors and sconces produced in Murano with Vetralia. Rooted in the language of femininity and echoing the poetic harmony of the Renaissance,ย Muses transforms myth into matter, turning reflection and luminosity into a site of empowerment and renewal. Drawing inspiration from Botticelliโ€™s Primavera, Gotiโ€™s palette of silvers, soft greens, and earthy tones evokes an allegorical garden of metamorphosis. Through multilayered Venetian glass techniques such as melting, layering, and silvering, she blurs transparency and reflection, producing works that feel simultaneously ancient and futuristic. Gotiโ€™s practice is deeply personal and political, reimagining ornament and identity through a distinctly female lens.

Greek designer Kiki Goti presents Muses, a series of mirrors and sconces produced in Murano with Vetralia. Rooted in the language of femininity and echoing the poetic harmony of the Renaissance,ย Muses transforms myth into matter, turning reflection and luminosity into a site of empowerment and renewal. Drawing inspiration from Botticelliโ€™s Primavera, Gotiโ€™s palette of silvers, soft greens, and earthy tones evokes an allegorical garden of metamorphosis. Through multilayered Venetian glass techniques such as melting, layering, and silvering, she blurs transparency and reflection, producing works that feel simultaneously ancient and futuristic. Gotiโ€™s practice is deeply personal and political, reimagining ornament and identity through a distinctly female lens.

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.

Multi layer baked Venetian glass, colored glass balls, wooden frame
15.75h x 10.24w in
40h x 26w cm

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