Hotel

ARDOR EXCLUSIVE VILLAS

Location

SANTORINI, GREECE

Year

2022

Ardor Exclusive Villas stands at Vourvoulos on the quieter north-east side of Santorini, a small group of adults-only residences set on a private plot among vineyards and volcanic ground, looking out toward Anafi at sunrise. The architecture is elemental Cycladic: hand-troweled microcement walls and arched ceilings, large black-framed openings cut into thick walls, and terraces edged in rough volcanic stone under a flat pergola. Indoors and out, the spaces stay spare and sea-facing. A TAURO lounge chair rests by the sliding doors, a BOHO coffee table sits low among the terrace sofas, and wood-framed dining armchairs gather at the table where the view opens to the Aegean.