Modernist Hotels in Athens.

8 hotels we would send a friend to, in Monastiraki, Kolonaki and Glyfada.

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A room interior at The Modernist hotel in Athens — a modernist design hotel in the city centre

The Modernist

The former Canadian Embassy on Ioannou Gennadiou, high ceilings and residential scale kept. Inside, a restrained mid-century vocabulary of natural stone bathrooms, considered lighting and good linen, with the National Gallery and the Gennadius Library within walking distance.

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Sanctuary

Perianth Hotel

A trapezoidal 1930s Streamline Modern building on Agia Irini Square, empty for decades and restored by the Sgoumpopoulos family with K-Studio. Radial corridors, glass-brick partitions, terrazzo and brass, staff uniforms by Sophia Kokosalaki, and Anther on the ground floor.

Since2018

Keys38

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An interior at New Hotel Athens — the Campana Brothers' design hotel assembled from salvaged fittings of the former Olympic Palace Hotel on Filellinon Street

Syntagma

New Hotel

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The pool terrace at Ace Hotel & Swim Club in Glyfada — a contemporary Athens Riviera hotel with outdoor pool and sea views

Ace Hotel & Swim Club, Glyfada — photo 2 of 5

Ace Hotel & Swim Club, Glyfada — photo 3 of 5

Glyfada

Ace Hotel & Swim Club

The 1970s Fenix Hotel in Glyfada, opened up by Paris studio Ciguë with Georges Batzios Architects and Aris Konstantinidis as the reference. Brutalist balconies kept, art throughout, the Sebastian bistro and two pools, a hundred metres from the beach.

Colourful room interior at Colors Hotel Athens on Emmanouil Benaki Street, Exarchia

Omonia

Colors

Rooms built around two or three contrasting tones each, carried from the walls to the textiles and fixtures in a Deco-inflected minimalism. From compact Economy doubles to a family room with bunks and a Penthouse Suite, between Omonia and Exarchia.

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Pallas Athena hotel on Athinas Street in Athens — a Grecotel design hotel with commissioned street art murals throughout its rooms

Monastiraki

Athena

Grecotel's hotel on Athinas, a block from the Varvakeios market. In the Signature Graffiti Guestrooms each floor-to-ceiling mural is by a named artist; the rest of the building follows with collected design objects and original artworks.

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AthensWas Design Hotel

Errika Benakopoulou and designer Stavros Papagiannis skipped both the ancient and the white cube: Greek marble, walnut, flashes of orange and royal blue, vintage furniture. SENSE is on the roof with the Parthenon at eye level; the Superiors' marble balconies face it too.

Since2015

Keys21

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