Tour a House in Patmos, Greece, Reimagined with Sensitivity and Soul
4 min readAbove: In the courtyard of a 17th-century home designed by Leda Athanasopoulou on the Greek island of Patmos, the custom table in reclaimed Dionysos marble is by Thomas Palaios. The neoclassical cement tile flooring was added in the 19th century.The novelist and all-around Grecophile Lawrence Durrell once defined Greek islands as “places where different destinies can meet and intersect in the full isolation of time.” That might sound like a lot of literary hot air, until you visit Patmos. Less than 40 miles from the Turkish coast, Patmos is hardly a traveler’s idea of a daytrip (there’s no airport on the island, and a ferry from the mainland takes seven hours). Its most famous resident? St. John, who wrote the Book of Revelation while in exile at the end of the 1st century. And y...










