Anassa Steps Into Spring with New Look Rooms and Boutique Launch

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This Spring, Thanos Hotels unveiled Anassa’s newly renovated rooms and launched the hotel’s standalone fashion store – Kult Boutique. Reopened on the 16th March for the season, Anassa revealed the refreshed suites including the upgraded garden studio suites, junior suites and villas, which unifies tradition and modernity and effortlessly enhances Anassa’s understated at-home design.With a combination of custom-made oak furniture and furnishings, luxurious silks and linens in nautical blues and understated taupes, Anassa’s new look exudes a refined and elegant, yet contemporary Mediterranean feel. These new suites offers guests a beach-chic apartment vibe and an atmosphere of cool comfort and welcoming warmth. The renovation was conceived by legendary Parisian interior designer Joelle Pleot and brought to life by local artisans, Andreas Charalambous Konteatis and brothers Costas and Aggelos Charalambous who, having worked with the owners for 20 and 30 years respectively understand and appreciate the ethos of Thanos Hotels.

Speaking about the renovation, Managing Director Thanos Michaelides said, “Anassa is an institution in her own right. We are blessed to have been working with the same artisans and designers since she opened, all of whom truly understand what she represents. The renovations really elevate Anassa’s elegant allure, while maintaining her distinctive character and uniqueness. The results are truly beautiful.”

The opening of Kult Boutique sets a new precedent. This 300 square-metre retail space has been envisioned by architectural and interior designer, Paolo Giachi – renowned for his work with luxury fashion houses from the Louis Vuitton and Fendi stores in Florence to the Smythson stores in New York and Los Angeles. Kult’s interiors, designed in Giachi’s typical style, feature local stone and hardwood floors paired with dramatic oak and bronze furnishings. Kult offers a shopping haven for men and women with ready-to-wear clothing and accessories from Prada, Miu Miu, Bottega Veneta, Stella McCartney, Saint Laurent, Jimmy Choo, and Aqua Di Parma.

Anassa’s sister property Annabelle also sees in the new season with renovated sea-view rooms. True to the hotel’s classic colonial style these new rooms feature updated wooden furnishings, a modern and fresh colour scheme and traditional shutter doors. This update sees the final phase of the property’s upgrade being complete.

Daniel Fountain / 06.04.2015

Editor, Hotel Designs

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