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Dominic dominic@skinnerandskinner.co.uk +30 697 708 4501

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~ Dominic and Claire Skinner
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Old Corfu Town. Not every project starts with a p

Old Corfu Town.

Not every project starts with a plot of land - sometimes it starts with knowing a place well enough to design boutique suites for how people actually want to live in it.

Filmed with our sister company, @townhouseco - Luxury suites in historic Greek buildings for immersive escapes or longer sojourns, designed by @skinnerandskinnerdesign
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#CorfuTown #GreekIslandDesign #BoutiqueArchitecture #CorfuVillas #DesignedForLiving

Paxos, site inspection. Busy time ahead: more coa

Paxos, site inspection.

Busy time ahead: more coastlines, more views, more excuses to bring the boat out.

Quality control came along for the ride. Verdict: approved; currently reviewing the shade under the bench.

📍 Paxos - Skinner & Skinner Design · Architecture, interiors and landscape across Corfu, Paxos and the wider Ionian. For private villas, restorations and hospitality projects, please contact the studio via the link in bio.
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Photo: @itsjamiejames

At the Beach House, the stone steps and paths wind

At the Beach House, the stone steps and paths wind around the old olive trees, all the way through the terracing.

Local stone runs from the house straight into the garden walls, blurring the boundary between building and gardens. The planting of rosemary, lavender and echium between the pale stone softens and complements any hard, constructed edges. Sky Blue shutters are a deliberate note of colour that connects and settles the build between sky and sea.

We designed it to read as one continuous piece of ground. Like all of our villas, the build sits seamlessly within the land and surroundings, as if they've always been there.

📍 The Beach House, Agni, Corfu.
For stays & availability, please enquire via our sister company @ionianestates.
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Photos: @clivenichols

Koroneiki, Kalamaki Koroneiki sits low on purpose.

Koroneiki, Kalamaki
Koroneiki sits low on purpose.

On the Kardaki Estate above Kalamaki Bay, we gave four bedrooms in the main house their own private terraces, and set two further garden suites apart in the grounds, for a total of six king-sized rooms, each treated as its own master rather than ranked beneath one. The open-plan kitchen and living space steps straight onto terraces planted with olive trees, and the infinity pool sits within gardens shaped to hold the view out to the mainland.

It's the kind of restraint we look for in every project: let the setting do the talking, and build only what earns its place in it.

📍 Koroneiki, Kardaki Estate, Kalamaki, Corfu.
For stays & availability, please enquire via our sister company @ionianestates.

Most waterfront houses put everyone under one roof

Most waterfront houses put everyone under one roof; at Paralia, we kept them in three.

The plan consists of three separate cottages around a shared garden in Avlaki, with the main cottage housing the kitchen and living space, and two smaller cottages nearby, each with its own bedroom and bathroom. It's a quieter way to house a group than one large villa, everyone with a door of their own to close.

Mature planting runs the length of the plot, and a six-metre pool sits within the grounds. At the water's edge, a private jetty means arriving by boat is as easy as arriving by road: tie up, swim straight off the end, or take it out for lunch along the coast. Kassiopi is a twenty-minute walk if you'd rather stay on land.

It's an arrangement we come back to for a group house, a shared garden and terraces to bring everyone together, three separate roofs so nobody has to share more than they'd choose to.

📍 Paralia House, Avlaki, Corfu.
For stays & availability, please enquire via our sister company @ionianestates.

Harbour House. Coffee under the olive trees, a st

Harbour House.

Coffee under the olive trees, a stroll past the lavender to the perfectly oval pool set into the terraced hillside down to the sea. Shady spots and seating areas are thoughtfully created to maximise relaxation. Inside, the colour palette is restrained to carry through the connection from outside to inside. Pops of colour via the beautiful Suzani’s, fabrics, and trims in every room and space are elegant and considered choices, creating relaxed luxury without being pretentious.

📍 Harbour House, Corfu.
For availability and booking, please enquire via our sister company @ionianestates
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Photos and video @itsjamiejames

From above, the scale becomes clear: the Old Soap

From above, the scale becomes clear: the Old Soap Factory sits right at the edge of Loggos harbour, its new roofline the same terracotta as the village around it, though newly laid, and to be weathered over time.

At ground level, the chimney, majestic and towering. The exterior rendered yet not aged. This is what the rebuild looks like mid-way, shell first, memories retained and inspired, and still growing and changing.

When it's finished, the building returns to public life: a marketplace for local produce and makers, warehouse volumes for exhibitions and performance with the Paxos Music and Art Festivals, loft suites that keep the industrial character rather than dress over it.

📍 Old Soap Factory, Loggos, Paxos.
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Photos: Dominic Skinner and @itsjamiejames

Dove House's infinity pool runs 12.5 by 5 metres a

Dove House's infinity pool runs 12.5 by 5 metres at a single depth, with steps built into one end and a shallow entry rather than a ladder over the edge, easy to read as a family pool before you've even asked who's staying.

The house sits into the slope across two floors above San Stefano: stone walls, exposed timber ceiling beams, and a terrace broad enough for covered dining alongside the water.

📍 Dove House, above San Stefano, Corfu.

That bastion-like curve holds the corner rather th

That bastion-like curve holds the corner rather than turning it — a shape you'd expect from an old terrace, built to hold a hillside rather than mark a boundary. The house is tiered to follow the contours of the existing slope, and the pergola extends deep enough to live outdoors.

Above Loggos, on the east coast of Paxos — designed by Skinner & Skinner Design and available to rent through our sister company @ionianestates
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Photos 1 and 5 by: @clivenichols
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#SkinnerAndSkinner #IonianEstates #Paxos #KiposBeach #LifestyleByDesign

Dawn and dusk, the same sea. The light shifts, swa

Dawn and dusk, the same sea.
The light shifts, swallows and swifts cut across it, yachts sit waiting for their owners to return, a fishing boat comes home at the end of the day, and underneath it all, the iconic Corfu colour palette at this time of year.

Photography: @itsjamiejames
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#SkinnerAndSkinner #Corfu #IonianIslands #LifestyleByDesign #GoldenHour

Rou Estate started as one idea between two people

Rou Estate started as one idea between two people and relationships with the craftsmen, builders and local knowledge that make a project like this possible in the Ionian. Twenty plus years later, that partnership is now three businesses: @skinnerandskinnerdesign @ionianestates and @townhouseco
Different skills. Same eye for beauty and detail.

Photos: @itsjamiejames
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#SkinnerAndSkinner #RouEstate #IonianIslands #Corfu #DesignPartnership

Steps into the sea at Faliraki, Corfu Old Town, te

Steps into the sea at Faliraki, Corfu Old Town, ten minutes on foot from our Liston Suites, available to book through @townhouseco
July and August reward the early risers: before the heat, before the town wakes up properly. Just the water against the rock, and swifts dipping for insects.

Photo and Video: @itsjamiejames

Stone quay, wooden bench, one ironwork lamppost, a

Stone quay, wooden bench, one ironwork lamppost, all that is required.

Restraint like this is a discipline, not an accident: time spent simply looking, before drawing a single line, understanding how a building will sit against land, sea and sky, and what it's being asked to do.

Returning to a location at different times of the day to observe the light, the line of sight, the landscape, the water, to notice their relationship to each other, to place, and let that inform the design and build.

Villas, Suites and Architectural Landscaping: @skinnerandskinnerdesign
Photo: @itsjamiejames with @g.rods
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#SkinnerAndSkinner #LifestyleByDesign #Corfu #IonianIslands #ArchitecturalDesign

The interiors at Shell House, north-east Corfu. T

The interiors at Shell House, north-east Corfu.

The palette here was drawn on the sea itself, not one shade of it but many. The deep turquoise of some of the North Eastern coves on a clear afternoon. The pale grey-blue of the water before the sun has fully risen. The chalky white of a wave breaking on limestone. The washed green of shallow water over pebbles. Every room carries a different register of the same source.

Against the warmth of the stone exterior and the Corfiot landscape outside, the interior reads as an immersion rather than a contrast, as though the sea has been brought inside and held still.
The pieces throughout are a mix of bespoke and found, antique furniture stripped back to bare wood, a chest worn to a verdigris patina, ceramics in muted glaze, geometric screening that echo the pattern of light on water. The covered courtyard connects the two buildings, the turquoise-painted door marking the threshold between them.

📍 Shell House, North-east Corfu. Architecture, interiors and landscape by Skinner & Skinner Design.
Photo: @clivenichols
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#corfuvilla #interiordesigngreece #ionianislands #greekarchitecture #coastalinteriors #northeastcorfu

The gardens at Cassiopeia, at the end of the day.

The gardens at Cassiopeia, at the end of the day.
Stipa tenuissima catches the last light along the path, the feather grass moving in the evening breeze while everything else has begun to still. Allium rises through it in clusters of pink. Thymus serpyllum 'Pink Chintz' creeps along the path edge, and Cistus créticus 'Sainte Florent' holds the middle ground in hot pink.
The uncut limestone boulder at the centre of the border is original to the site, retained and planted around rather than removed. Behind, mature olive and Italian cypress frame the Ionian channel, the Albanian mountains fading into the evening haze.
The planting is naturalistic by design, species chosen to move, seed and change through the season rather than hold a fixed form. The flagstone path was set to follow the existing topography of the headland rather than cut through it.

Cassiopeia occupies a five-acre private headland on the Kassiopia Estate, north-east Corfu, with a private beach, jetty, 20-metre saltwater infinity pool, and grounds that reward an hour's walking.

📍 Villa Cassiopeia, Kassiopia Estate, north-east Corfu.
Architecture, interiors and landscape by Skinner & Skinner Design.
Available to rent via @ionianestates.
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#kassiopeiaestate #corfuvilla #ionianislands #landscapearchitecture #mediterraneangarden #greekarchitecture #northeastcorfu

The pool at Koroneiki sits at the edge of the terr

The pool at Koroneiki sits at the edge of the terrace, its curved form stepping down from the stone-set surround into the hillside below.
A glass balustrade keeps the sightline to the Ionian uninterrupted, the channel, the mainland mountains, the last of the evening light across the water.

The oval pool form was chosen over a rectangular plan to follow the natural fall of the site. Where a straight edge would have fought the contours, the curve works with them. A mature olive grows through the terrace level beside it, its canopy spreading over the seating area, shade that no pergola could replicate.

Koroneiki sits on the Kardaki Estate, north-east Corfu. Six bedrooms, all king-size, four in the main house and two as standalone garden suites, each with its own terrace and sea view.

📍 Koroneiki — Kardaki Estate, north-east Corfu- Available to rent via @ionianestates.
Architecture, interiors and landscape by Skinner & Skinner Design.
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#kardakiestate #corfuvilla #ionianislands #greekarchitecture #northeastcorfu #luxuryvilla

Featured in @homesandgardensofficial this week. K

Featured in @homesandgardensofficial this week.

Kouloura is a 15th-century property on the north-east coast of Corfu, one of the most historically layered sites we've worked with.
In collaboration with @paulbangay the gardens were redesigned to reveal a sequence of relaxing spaces that draw you progressively closer to the water and the landscape around them.

Thanks to @gardenvisitoruk for the feature and @clivenichols for the photography; head to @homesandgardensofficial to read it in full.

Kouloura is available to book through @ionianestates.
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#kouloura #corfu #corfugreece #ionianislands #ioniansea #villarestoration #skinnerandskinner #venetian #greekarchitecture #corfuvilla

The Sunday Times put Rou Estate in their top 100 p

The Sunday Times put Rou Estate in their top 100 places to stay in the world. Harper's Bazaar named it Greece's best mountain escape.

A 200-year-old Corfiot village, restored stone by stone by Dominic and Claire Skinner, on the northeast coast of Corfu. The views from the infinity pool across the Ionian Sea to Albania explain both.

@rouestate Villas are available to book via @simpsontravel
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Photo: @clivenichols
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#rouestate #corfu #corfugreece #ionianislands #luxuryvilla #greekarchitecture #skinnerandskinner #ioniansea #villacorfu #harpersbazaar #sundaytimes

The Rou Estate was built for exactly this. A 200-

The Rou Estate was built for exactly this.

A 200-year-old Corfiot village, restored stone by stone, with Albania visible across the channel at dawn and nothing between you and the mountains but the Ionian Sea.
The yoga pavilion sits at its edge. The view is the practice.

@rouestate - Northeast Corfu.
Booking @simpsontravel
Design, Architecture & Build: @skinnerandskinnerdesign
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Photo: @itsjamiejames
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#rouestate #corfu #corfugreece #yogaretreat #ionianislands

The west coast of Paxos is on the wilder side. Me

The west coast of Paxos is on the wilder side.

Mellow but steep cliffs, the colour of biscuit and cream, densely scented pine, and narrow un-made roads that give almost nothing away of the mesmerising and lazuline sea beyond.

One of our most ambitious projects to date, Koukouvaya sits atop one of the steeper precipices.

A seven-bedroom villa arranged over three levels, with a black infinity pool on the edge of a pale stone terrace, and nothing but the Ionian Sea stretching out to the horizon, and the sunsets you came for.

The pines between the house and the terrace remain deliberately, offering shade and a frame. Rosemary, aloe and Acanthus mollis break up the pale stone terrace and steps.

Architecture and interiors by @skinnerandskinnerdesign 📍Paxos, Greece.
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#koukouvaya #paxos #paxosgreece #ionianislands #ionianislands🇬🇷 #greekarchitecture #skinnerandskinner #infinitypool #mediterraneandesign #villadesign #luxuryvilla #westpaxos

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