The story, in short
Villa Asteri was the Skordilis family home, and half of it was the carpentry workshop of Argyris’s father. When the house became a villa, the workshop was not cleared out: his sideboard still stands in the kitchen, his tools hang on the walls, and old hand planes became the bedside lamps. Argyris made the dining table, the sofas and the bathroom vanities himself, in the same rooms.
The other three houses came later, each with its own character. Argyris still answers the messages himself and, in most cases, opens the door when guests arrive.
“Half of this house was our home, and half was my father’s workshop. I grew up between the two — sawdust on one side of the wall, my mother’s cooking on the other. I couldn’t let that go. So I kept it: in the furniture, the tools, the lamps. When I make something for the villa, I’m continuing what he started.”
— Argyris Skordilis
