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Category Archives: DESIGN …At the old Ursuline School of Naxos I ‘ve been dying to show you this kitchen stove, discovered during a visit at the old Ursuline School of Naxos. I was wandering at the beautifully renovated building of the school, inside the Castle of Chora -amazed by the architecture, the view and the history of the […]  And the batch of feta-oregano cookies I faintly remember my grandmother cooking with this Izola 620 electric kitchen. She had it since the fifties and she loved it; I don’t know how she managed to bake without a glass oven door to check on the pies and cookies every five minutes like I do; but […]  About seashells During my visits to traditional Aegean houses, I often notice seashells as part of the decoration. I remember Flora’s house or Margarita’s grocery, in the village of Marpissa in Paros: sea snails and scallops, found in nearby beaches, demonstrate the connection between island people and the sea. People here appreciate their shapes, geometry and […]  The amazing Aegean stone lace Xerolithies are the dry stone walls that create the characteristic images of the Aegean landscape; local stones combined together, without any cohesive material, forming walls that spread all over the island surface, in perfect harmony with the morphology of the land. Those well designed walls, curvy and proud, standing untouched […] |
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