Villa Athena, Mykonos

Villa ATHENA is nestled on the edge of the Agios Lazaros Mykonos private 10-Villa Estate seafront and enjoys an uninterrupted view of Delos and Rhenea islands over a majestic drop to the sea, offering the picture-perfect Mykonos sunset. Villa ATHENA was host to several events during the games over the summers of 2004 and 2005 and was named Villa ATHENA in honor of the Goddess of wisdom. The world-renown designer, Alberto Pinto, intended the white-washed indoors and minimal designs to distract guests from the over-powering natural beauty of the island, and the white upholstery is intended to complement the island’s unique Cycladic architecture. The curved walls and seating arrangements blend in seamlessly with the Mykonian style, where 90-degree angles are all but absent. In contrast to the interior, the exterior of Pinto’s designs draw upon the magnificent, fiery-colored, stone-chiseled walls and broad flagstones to blend into the natural zeitgeist of the island’s wild-side, offering up an uninterrupted frame from within which to view Apollo’s birth place, Delos, and the myriad of Cycladic islands scattered beyond it into the distance.