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ΝEW OPTIONS Based on your characteristics, what’s surrounded by the misunderstood
FRESH APPROACH your contribution to Athens? apartment buildings in innumerable
FOR THE CLASSIC Theano Petridou: I see my work, variations: the greek version of the
SOUVENIR. through collaborations with hotels, almost “do it yourself” building with
ΦΡΕΣΚΙΑ ΙΔΕΑ shops, companies and others, as linear balconies, that project the private
ΓΙΑ ΕΝΑ ΚΛΑΣΙΚΟ a kind of urban anthropology. To life of every household over the city
unconsciously guide the visitor from streets.
61*ΣΟΥΒΕΝΙΡ. one Athens neighbourhood to the other, What’s missing and what’s in
WE DESIGN without some architectural or historic abundance in Athens?
APART FROM FOLKLORE point of reference. A promenade, Sergios Fotiadis: Design has been
evolving in Greece in recent years,
Graphic designer Theano where encountering a hotel sign people have stopped being content
Petridou, architect in the city centre or the perusal with the cloning of the familiar recipes
Philippos Photiadis and of a restaurant menu becomes and are searching for or creating the
product designer Sergios a game, says something about different. So, on a tour of Athens,
Fotiadis give shape to the city. one can find, apart from folklore and
anything that can be designed. What can a traveler find only in classic souvenirs, objects with a more
Η γραφίστρια Θεανώ Πετρίδου, Athens? contemporary taste and perspective,
ο αρχιτέκτονας Φίλιππος Philippos Photiadis: Colourful that contribute to the establishment of
Φωτιάδης και ο βιομηχανικός street markets, cold coffee, summer a new identity. Actually, that’s what we
σχεδιαστής Σέργιος Φωτιάδης do at We Design, with a series of objects,
δίνουν σχήμα σε ό,τι μπορεί να cinemas, jugglers at traffic stops, souvenirs and others, that we design and
σχεδιαστεί. Karagiozis (shadow puppet) shows, produce, with elements and references
churches everywhere, dilapidated from Greece.
protected old buildings, ancient
monuments that make us proud of CONTINUED ON PAGE 222
our heritage and thoughtful about
our destitution. Everything stiflingly
JOHN DIMOTSIS
106
ΝEW OPTIONS Based on your characteristics, what’s surrounded by the misunderstood
FRESH APPROACH your contribution to Athens? apartment buildings in innumerable
FOR THE CLASSIC Theano Petridou: I see my work, variations: the greek version of the
SOUVENIR. through collaborations with hotels, almost “do it yourself” building with
ΦΡΕΣΚΙΑ ΙΔΕΑ shops, companies and others, as linear balconies, that project the private
ΓΙΑ ΕΝΑ ΚΛΑΣΙΚΟ a kind of urban anthropology. To life of every household over the city
unconsciously guide the visitor from streets.
61*ΣΟΥΒΕΝΙΡ. one Athens neighbourhood to the other, What’s missing and what’s in
WE DESIGN without some architectural or historic abundance in Athens?
APART FROM FOLKLORE point of reference. A promenade, Sergios Fotiadis: Design has been
evolving in Greece in recent years,
Graphic designer Theano where encountering a hotel sign people have stopped being content
Petridou, architect in the city centre or the perusal with the cloning of the familiar recipes
Philippos Photiadis and of a restaurant menu becomes and are searching for or creating the
product designer Sergios a game, says something about different. So, on a tour of Athens,
Fotiadis give shape to the city. one can find, apart from folklore and
anything that can be designed. What can a traveler find only in classic souvenirs, objects with a more
Η γραφίστρια Θεανώ Πετρίδου, Athens? contemporary taste and perspective,
ο αρχιτέκτονας Φίλιππος Philippos Photiadis: Colourful that contribute to the establishment of
Φωτιάδης και ο βιομηχανικός street markets, cold coffee, summer a new identity. Actually, that’s what we
σχεδιαστής Σέργιος Φωτιάδης do at We Design, with a series of objects,
δίνουν σχήμα σε ό,τι μπορεί να cinemas, jugglers at traffic stops, souvenirs and others, that we design and
σχεδιαστεί. Karagiozis (shadow puppet) shows, produce, with elements and references
churches everywhere, dilapidated from Greece.
protected old buildings, ancient
monuments that make us proud of CONTINUED ON PAGE 222
our heritage and thoughtful about
our destitution. Everything stiflingly
JOHN DIMOTSIS
106
