Journal

Conversations

The makers we work with, in their own words.

In Conversation with Ilias Vlachos, carpenter, Halkidiki

22 January 2026.

Nine months on the walnut headboard at Suite 4 — and why Ilias refused the second piece of timber the mill offered him. “The grain was going the wrong way for the room,” he said. “You would not have noticed for a year. Then you would have noticed every day.”

We waited eleven weeks for the piece he wanted. It is the thing guests photograph.