Today we will deal with the Cycladic style and its characteristics, that will help us bring it to our space……
All the islands of our country are enchanting. Not only we say it but also those foreign tourists who come every year to visit them. Especially the Cyclades, have worldwide and one more originality to highlight: their architecture!!
But let's look at its basic features!!
- There is a preference for pure geometric shapes. The main shape for the houses is the rectangular parallelepiped and the cube, with rounded corners. Join in clusters to create the beautiful Cycladic villages that look like a huge single whole. This indivisible form that climbs the slopes, is enhanced, from the use of white lime that covers everything!!
- The roofs are mostly flat, but on some islands we also find magnificent domes…
- The windows are narrow, painted in bright colors and with the blue of the sea dominating.
- They are used natural materials on the floors, with a preference for pebbles, stone and raw wood.
- Wonderful small wooden furniture, sparingly decorate the interiors. These are real masterpieces of traditional art, famous all over the world as Skyriana. Skyros which belongs to the Sporades, has influenced all the Aegean islands in interior design.
If we want to bring the aura of the Greek summer to our holiday home or if we want to include its elements in the apartment in the city, we must heed the following tips:
Large furniture with minimal aesthetics, are harmoniously combined with traditional pieces of natural wood, sometimes in brown tones and sometimes in bright colors. We do not forget that the built-in seats that dominate all the rooms are of great use.
Another very good and economical option is to use processed cement (Industrial flooring), reminiscent of volcanic ash.
We can leave them in their natural color or paint them in white and off-white shades. Another option is to simply leave them bare by painting them all white and without using plaster in the joint with the walls.. Instead we join the ceiling with the walls, softening the corners at the joints.
In fact, the paints should have a matte finish to resemble lime. The effect will be even better if we do not insist on smooth troweling but leave the walls wild and with imperfections that will create shadows.
These are cool cotton, fine linen and gauze, covering the seats, they shade the windows and hang over the beds, creating romantic mosquito nets. The canvas is also widely used, especially as a fabric for furniture on sofas and chairs..
Thus, wooden works of art resembling works of modern art have a place, traditional terracotta pottery but also painted or painted in bright shades. Also very beautiful are the murals with themes from the Ancient Cycladic and Minoan Era that can give a note “monumental” aesthetics inside the minimalist white.
Definitely in addition to the pendants that we will use for the diffusion of light, we will need lamps for indirect lighting, but also spotlights for the necessary effect “wild” walls.
From the European countries of the south, to America and Japan, build entire areas using the Greek minimalism of the Cycladic islands. They are trying to get some of the magic of our place, but unfortunately the effort is in vain..
Nowhere does this style fit more than the country that gave birth to it and to no people “fastens” more than the Greeks!!
