The Collector
A rare invitation into a private home of one of Athens' most discreet art collectors.
A neoclassical townhouse. A collection assembled across three generations. A conversation with the family, over coffee, about objects rarely seen outside the walls of this house.
- Private home visit
- Three-generation collection
- Coffee with the family
- · Expert introduction
- · Refreshments
Indicative — every experience is privately composed and timed around you.
- 10:30Private apartment of a leading Athens architect
- 12:30Lunch at the collector's table
- 14:30Working studio of a contemporary Greek artist
- 16:00Close with the guide's library
A private invitation into homes and studios that are never open to the public — an architect's apartment, a collector's library, an artist's working studio. The point is not what is on the walls, but the conversations the walls make possible.
Collectors, designers, art-world insiders, and travellers who measure a city by the people they meet in it rather than the places they tick.
How each of the five senses is engaged through the course of the experience.
- Sight
- Modern Greek painting beside Cycladic marble; a Saarinen table set for two.
- Sound
- Low classical music, the click of a library door, espresso machines in distant kitchens.
- Scent
- Old paper, fresh coffee, cut flowers, a faint perfume of cedar.
- Taste
- A small glass of something the guide has been keeping for a reason.
- Touch
- Leather spines, raw linen, the unmistakable cool of real marble.