Within the midst of a pandemic, Mitsakos discovered herself launching a enterprise, and Anthologist was born. It’s each a design service for hoteliers and a web based store for shoppers searching for extraordinary furnishings, housewares, and jewellery. Put merely, Mitsakos began doing for purchasers what she had been doing for her personal whitewashed cottage and Acropolis view residence—sourcing vintage-inspired ceramics and brass {hardware} from artisans, and culling vintage textiles from her assortment.
“The response exceeded my expectations,” Mitsakos says, which speaks to shoppers’ want for artisanal objects and dedication to cultural sustainability. “If my foundry doesn’t make this candlestick any extra, these molds are going to be smashed, and the trades aren’t going to be handed down. Anthologist is working with so many mediums that actually don’t exist anymore, and I believe that sustainability aspect has piqued numerous curiosity with folks.”
After all, Anthologist customers could also be pushed to brighten their areas by the identical drive that motivates Mitsakos to design hers: Love. “Folks say to eliminate objects that don’t serve you,” she says. “I don’t care if one thing’s not serving me; I’ve by no means put a candle on this candlestick, however I obtained it on the road in Monastiraki, and I find it irresistible.” That’s the logic underlying all her fashion selections. “My aesthetic is emotional,” Mitsakos explains. She has additionally not too long ago launched a jewellery line, Almas, named after her Armenian great-grandmother and following her great- great-grandfather’s custom.
Pillows from Mitsakos’s new textile assortment.
“Whether or not it’s a caftan that I purchased in some classic retailer and wore ferryhopping one lovely summer time with a lover, or these donkey work that I maxxed out my bank card to purchase once I was in my 20s in Dominican Republic, which now cling in my residence in Athens, I at all times encompass myself with issues that evoke emotion, nostalgia.”
Anthologist ceramics.
She created Anthologist so everybody else can take pleasure in nostalgia too. This summer time by October, the luckiest shoppers can store Anthologist pop-up lodge boutiques at Cretan Malia Park on Crete, Mystique on Santorini, and Parilio on Paros; everybody else can discover love—together with the designers new textile traces—at anthologist.com.
Convey Anthologist’s Greek Stylish House: Mitsakos’s design decree primary is encompass your self with belongings you adore. Listed here are a number of different methods to recreate her maximalist dreamscapes chez vous.
Scour Flea Markets—Just about: Should you can’t get the marché-aux-puces or Brimfield this summer time, log onto eBay, Cherish, or Craigslist for resale gems. “Determine no matter aesthetic you’re aiming for and maintain going in direction of that,” Mitsakos says. “Attempt to accumulate, not store.”
Flip to Textiles: Not solely are they brilliant, lovely, and straightforward to pack, however Mitsakos factors out, “textiles are so versatile. You’ll be able to have a light-weight rug hanging in your wall for a number of years after which use it to upholster a chair, flip it right into a pillow in your mattress, or again it with one thing else and make it right into a throw.”
Rethink Your Equipment: Even objects can pivot their careers. “I’m at all times shopping for issues and turning them into one thing else,” Mitsakos says. “I’ll use candlesticks as bud vases or flip vases into lamps.”
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