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Colorful restaurant and ceramics studio on the island of Crete
Artist Alexandra Manousakis has transformed a former café in Chania, Crete, into a restaurant and ceramics studio bathed in seaside hues.
Manousakis retained the building’s existing art deco-inspired features, including salmon pink doors and windows, while also bringing additional colors to the space with bright blue chairs and a
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Holiday home inspired by the Aegean Islands
Designed by Block722, this holiday home in Syros was inspired by the island’s surroundings.
The project drew inspiration from the island’s environment: the architects based the house’s distinctive character on the typology of small Aegean villages—minimalist architectural constellations often perched on hillsides facing the sea.
Block722
lifestyle
Some ideas if you want to get away from it all
There’s life beyond busy diaries and beeping phones, although sometimes it seems unimaginable. The daily hustle and bustle can be very exciting, but balance can only be achieved if calm is sometimes the rule. Even though self-care is becoming more and more important in today’s world, the pace
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Ionic columns and disco lights in Andreas Angelidakis’ exhibition
Ancient Greek culture meets contemporary techniques in a solo show by Greek artist Andreas Angelidakis in the underground dome of Espace Niemeyer, one of Paris’ most iconic buildings.
Focusing on a critical evaluation of antiquity, the exhibition explores how Greek culture and archaeology are perceived and consumed by contemporary society
architecture
Jewelry store or swimming pool? - Surreal interior design from Mykonos
The Athens-based SAINT OF ATHENS chose an unusual solution when designing this jewelry store for the Italian brand Gavello in one of Greece’s most visited summer locations, Mykonos. Working with Dive Architects, they created a design that breaks with the stereotypical look of the island.
Gavello Nel Blu, designed
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HIGHLIGHTS | That's what makes us addicted to animations
Often, when we hear about animated films, we think of easy, relaxed films, but an animation film can be educational as well as entertaining. This Sunday, animated shorts are in the spotlight: let’s watch them together!
Quick to consume and fun to watch: there are many arguments in favour
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Plans for Greece’s first green skyscraper unveiled
The special feature of the building, dreamed up by the British architectural firm Foster + Partners, is that with its 200-meters height it will be almost twice as tall as the 103-meters high Athens Tower, thus winning the title of the tallest building in Greece.
The building, which will be covered
fashion
The atmosphere of Greek taverns moved into Anna Amélie’s studio
Anna Oláh, the designer of the lifestyle brand Anna Amélie, showed us her fresh and crispy collection called Tavern in her studio. Anna, famous for her bags, created her first clothing collection during the pandemic, in which the brand reached her second home, Greece, as a source of inspiration for
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HIGHLIGHTS | The power of an exhibition
Static and boring at the same time, or hectic and subversive at the same time? The existence of exhibitions is almost incomprehensible, as they satisfy a human desire that appears differently in everyone. Our basic need is to admire, cultivate and receive knowledge, and an exhibition provides an excellent opportunity
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Greek industrial declared ultimate winner at hospitality design award show
The most fascinating hospitality design projects were also awarded at this year’s AHEAD Awards 2020: the first place winner was a Greek seaside hotel, without the usual blue and white idyll for once.
The derelict building of Hotel Dexamenes located on Greece’s western Peloponnese coastline used to function
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HIGHLIGHTS | Colorful cities
There are many ways to make a city more livable: in addition to an advanced infrastructure, citizens’ days can also be brightened by seeing lively and colorful walls instead of the grey and boring firewalls in certain points of the metropolis.
In addition to their positive impact on our well-being,
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HIGHLIGHTS | Design, in jars
“It’ll be good for the winter” – we all remember the eternal saying of our grandmothers probably uttered while bending over the steaming pot on the cookstove, stirring the fragrant jam. Our ancestors were already thinking about the bitter cold winter days when it was still bright and sunny, and
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Heritage building turned into boutique hotel | The Modernist Thessaloniki
The Modernist Hotel, the latest hot spot of Thessaloniki looks like a Wes
Anderson movie set from the outside, with an interior worthy to be featured in
any contemporary-minimalist magazine.
Local architecture studio FORMrelated renovated a heritage building built in
1920 and turned it into a cool boutique hotel in
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HIGHLIGHTS | Festivals, you are missed!
Be it any kind of festival, only one thing matters: diving deep into the
experience – for a night, or for several days –, living the unique atmosphere
that is not only about the artists, events or concerts lined up in the program,
as we didn’t purchase a ticket for a
architecture
The perfect tiny weekend house | Monocabin
There is a small house with unconventional sizes at first glance, but offering
even more comfort on the island of Rhodes, Greece. The so-called Monocabin
designed by design studio Mandalaki [https://www.mandalaki.com/] is the perfect
intimate summer shelter if you want to get away from the world for
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HIGHLIGHTS | Playful reduction
A form is never too simple, boring at best. Circle, triangle, square and the
rest of them – all friendly shapes: we keep running into and returning to them.
The common denominator, the least common multiple: a part of the visual language
we are all fluent in. A basis of reference
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HIGHLIGHTS | Urban frescos
The primary surfaces of human mark-making were caves. These gigantic “canvases”
were the first to preserve the marks our ancestors deemed important to record
tens of thousands of years ago. Virtually the same thing takes place nowadays in
the case of murals, too: only the caves have been replaced by