Monastiraki · Athens
Mona Athens.
A 1950s textile factory. Twenty rooms. Psyrri.
A concept hotel and art gallery in a preserved 1950s industrial factory in Psyrri. Twenty rooms, a basement speakeasy, a members-only rooftop. House of Shila's second property — raw where Shila was refined.
"The textile factory kept its bones. The speakeasy is in the basement."
Kakourgodikiou 4. The short street that connects Monastiraki to Psyrri — meat vendors on one side, a vinyl shop on the other — where a concrete slab that spent the 1950s making textiles became, in 2022, a hotel.
The building is eight stories of mid-century industrial: poured concrete, steel frames, terrazzo floors original to the factory. Twenty rooms, each open-plan — no walls between the sleeping and the bathing, only linen curtains. Brushed concrete on the ceilings, exposed copper pipes in the showers, egg-shaped Corian tubs. Every piece of furniture was commissioned for the room. All of it is for sale. You can leave with the velvet armchair, the terrazzo lamp, the hand-knotted carpet, the plant by the window.
Mona is the second project of Athens concept house Shila. Where Shila — in Kolonaki — is precise and composed, Mona is raw. The ground floor: a café bar that functions as a neighbourhood living room, open to the street. The basement: Babel, a speakeasy with no sign on the door. The roof: members only, a view across the ancient quarter to the Acropolis. Michelin has noted it.
Twenty rooms fills fast when the rooms do what these rooms do. Book early. Eat breakfast at the counter downstairs. Find the basement entrance before someone tells you it doesn't exist.
2022
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