Spring Green

I dream of this fresh, comfortable, welcoming bedroom that sings Spring... I love the marriage of traditional elements such as the stone work and the dressing table, with the simple furnishings and the colour Green, perfect for a couple's bedroom.

{Image from House and Garden-Greece, December 2009}

Bon Weekend

An abandonned Greek hotel

Now...

 

 

...and then...

 

  

  

 

Minoan Prince Hotel, Ierapetra, Crete, Greece

"Former glory" pictures:Terrokritten (simply amazing)
Old times photos: the hotel website (quite wierdly still up)

Greek shop interiors

 

 

 

 

 

The styled, the polished, the photoshopped, the color-matched, the re-vintaged...abound in the real world and in the blogosphere. Some heartbreakingly authentic emporiums, working or abandonned, in Greece via Flickr. Did I hear shabby?

New decorating project under way

A new project is boiling in my multiple design pots, dear readers.
It involves stone summer mansions

by the sea

and copious late night dinners

with very important and demanding clients!..


C'est la vie!

The most beautiful house in Greece

What has often been called "the most beautiful house in Greece" changed hands last week. The previous owner, Doda Goulandris of the shipping dynasty and her hearτ surgeon husband, sold the house to a Greek oil businessman of the Aegean Marine Petroleum Network and AEK football club manager.



(All pictures:To Thema)

After the raving success of Mamma Mia! last year, the time has come for stylists to rediscover Greece and the potential for lovely styling and incredible light.





Not to mention delicious Greek food such as chocolate, loukoumi and honey (all of said style props can be send to you by contacting yours trully!)

Also, don't forget to check the cushions we make at the shop, in a variety of fabrics, seen here and here. Let's Greek it!

All pictures from the gorgeous Toast catalogue and website.

Hello, style lovers,
Today I am going to take you on a tour to a beautiful Athens home, courtesy of a Domino Greece article. It is the home of one of my favorite Greek fashion Designers.
Vassili Zoulias, an 80s stylist and fashion editor turned fashion designer, creates shoes and handbags, which form the backbone of his collection, to which he has added over the years sophisticated dresses and coats, sold from Old Athens shop, in the fashionable Kolonaki district of Athens.

Here he is outside his shop.
At home, a 110m2 apartment overlooking the Athenian Riviera, the atmosphere is one of classic elegance with a fresh twist, sprinkled with childhood nostalgia.

(Look at that floor. It could feel old but it so now.)
Visual prompts and samples of his good taste are to be found everywhere in little niches of perfectly styled bric-a-brac.
As he readily admits, his late mother and the glamorous style of Athens in the 1950s and 60s, is for him the main source of inspiration.
Soft pastels, grey, pistachio, yellow and pink, color the tapestry of the designer's airy and refined universe at home.

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I hope you enjoyed the tour! See you soon for more beautiful home tours.

A colorful appartment in Athens

I very rarely find interesting houses in Greece. But when I do, I share them with you. This is the refurbished home of a young couple of graphic designer and art director, in Athens' southern suburbs. A new generation comes forth, well travelled and with different cultural experiences, improving tastes and styles from the hideous 60s,70s and 80s. The problem is that very rarely these homes have anything Greek about them, at all.


Having said that, I love the mushroom colored fabric on this sofa and the fuchsia jacquard one on the chair next to it.

The airy yet warm kitchen is another favorite of mine.

I also love the color combination in the white chair picture.

Painted steps, hmm! I wonder how long they'd last in a family home.

And the american stylistic touch. All fabrics Designers Guild from the Obrione collection.

(House and Garden, Greek issue, December 2008)

Paula Navone's House in the Aegean.

Paola Navone is undoubtably one of the most productive and influential designers of our times.She is known for her clean, inventive, natural and somewhat quirky approach to design.
Navone graduated in 1973 in architecture from the Turin Politecnico. Between 1970 and 1980 worked alongside Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass Jr. and Andrea Branzi in the Alchimia group, the most progressive set on the Italian design scene, developing a highly productive and stimulating avant-garde stance which gained her, in 1983, the prestigious Osaka International Design Award, bestowed for the first time that year.
Born in Turin, she later moved to Milan, although she is first and foremost a citizen of the world: driven by her extreme interest in the most widely differing cultures – particularly oriental ones – she travels a great deal, bowing to a natural inclination to cross boundaries, and not only geographical ones. In her long and many-sided career she has switched easily between the roles of architect, designer, art director, interior designer, critic, teacher and organiser of exhibitions and events, both independently and for select clients, including Armani Casa, Knoll International, Alessi, Piazza Sempione, Driade, Roche Bobois and Swarovski being only some examples. She has handled art direction at Gervasoni where the photos above come from, since 1998, in addition to designing most of the collections personally.

In this post I am showing you pictures of her personal summer heaven somewhere in the Aegean. Her ininitable style can be seen from the entrance of her home, where she displays a utilitarian piece made by herself out of pottery and planks painted white.

As is shown in Navone's work, she loves organic forms that link man to nature.

Navone has used the local painted floor technique in a tongue in cheek way both inside and outside her home to a stunning effect, showing that style is anything but a matter of money.







Earthy and breezy. Natural, young and clean, fresh like the air of the Aegean, warm like the Greek sun. A lovely home pour se resourcer.