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Greece
A Heritage-Inspired Guesthouse in the Aegean Sea
Twenty years ago, when Maria Lemos of the Mouki Mou lifestyle shop in London and her husband, Gregoris Kambouroglou, a retired trauma surgeon, first visited Patmos, an island of roughly 3,000 inhabitants belonging to the Dodecanese archipelago in the Aegean Sea, they instantly fell for it. After recently taking over a 16th-century guesthouse owned by the Monastery of Saint John and transforming it into the three-suite Pagostas, they’ve fallen for it all over again. “Using simplicity as the guiding principle, we wanted to create a universe that is modern and light yet rooted in our Greek heritage,” says Lemos, who grew up between Greece and England. Teaming up with the Greek designer Leda Athanasopoulou, and Mouki Mou’s Apostolos Koukidis, Lemos sourced vintage cane furniture from Athens, ceramics from Lesbos and handblown Cretan glass. A lace tablecloth from Maria’s own grandmother adorns the walls of one of the rooms. The Athenian landscaper Helli Pangalou, known for her work with the architect Renzo Piano, designed the small garden to be somewhat reminiscent of monastic courtyards, with plantings of jasmine and myrtle. Toiletries will feature a proprietary scent with notes of eucalyptus, cypress and frankincense — a collaboration with Lyn Harris of Perfumer H in London. “We are a home with a soul,” says Kambouroglou, “welcoming travelers who want to understand the Patmian way of life.” Rooms from $300; pagostas.com.
The Portuguese beach resort town Comporta and the neighboring community of Melides may be where some of Europe’s most fashionable personalities — Jacques Grange, Philippe Starck, Christian Louboutin — buy extraordinary vacation homes, but it’s still possible to drive through and notice little more than fishing villages and the occasional stork’s nest stacked on an electricity pole. That’s because exceptional private properties are tucked out of view — or, like Pateos, a new quartet of dramatically angular vacation rentals nestled at the end of a bumpy dirt road, obscured by cork and olive grove, near Melides. Designed by the award-winning…
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