Above the tiny fishing village of Skinopi, on nine acres looking over the Bay of Milos, Skinopi Lodge almost disappears into the hillside. Seven villas sit low in the dry grass, and from the water you would barely know they were there.
The architects Maria Kokkinou and Andreas Kourkoulas took their cue from the syrmata, the fishermen's houses of Milos, and built in single storeys of local stone.
The project grew slowly. Its owner started with a guesthouse in an old house in Trypiti, then spent more than a decade acquiring and shaping this piece of land.
Inside there is almost nothing to distract you. Concrete floors, reed ceilings, oak beams from Mount Athos and wooden shutters in place of curtains, with white and grey linen and cotton and only a few pieces of furniture.
The gardens are just as restrained: olive, lavender and thyme, in keeping with the dry slopes around them.
The long view here is of volcanic rock meeting still water. It stays with you, much as Coastal Rock does on a wall.
All photography via Skinopi Lodge
