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Category Archives: DESIGN

A call shop and a grocery store…  I remember the time, when as a kid, during our holidays in Paros, my mom and I had to go from Pisso Livadi to the village of Marpissa to call my dad who was working in Athens. It was years before the appearance of smartphones, and we didn’t even have a telephone […]

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As Cycladic as it gets  I couldn’t start talking to you about Mrs. Flora’s Aegean traditional home, without telling some things about her first; and it is very easy for me, because she is one of the kindest, good-hearted people I know… I close my eyes and imagine her walking in the streets of Marpissa, always having […]

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One day before its restoration. When Christos e-mailed me these photos of an old canava in Oia, Santorini that was about to be restored, I couldn’t help smiling. All those spontaneous decorations, full of colors and messages, they bring an aura of distant days and ways that are over.  8 Track tapes, diaries, and advertising […]

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If Gaudí lived in Greece… …he would had chosen to live at Emporio village, in Santorini. This beautiful settlement that once used to be one of the island’s castles and seems to have been made of modeling clay is an example of the traditional way of planning construction in the Aegean islands. I am sure […]

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