Yiannis Ghikas X
Myran
Project assistant: Nikolas Barrera
Porcelain ware handmade in Portugal
Photos: Giorgos Vitsaropoulos, Vassilis Karidis, Alina Lefa, Yiannis Ghikas
“Walking the streets of Athens, one will observe that most buildings constructed between 1950 and 1970 are dressed in surfaces of chased cement facing, a technique colloquially known as
Artificiel. This “skin” of the city, at places well-preserved, but most often, visibly worn or poorly preserved, caught my attention since quite some time.
The scale of application of this technique in Athenian buildings is so ubiquitous that, if there were one texture to stand as signature feature of the city, it would be the texture of those
artificiel. If I had to choose one characteristic trait of Athens to incorporate in my design work, then I would clearly choose
artificiel; which is what I did.”
Myran’s words
When Yiannis Ghikas showed us the new project he was working on after coming back from his residency in Arita in Japan, it was love at first sight.
Having worked for two decades with Scandinavian and Japanese Design in Greece, we couldn’t have found a better way of expressing our aesthetic bipolarness than this ceramic celebration of Athens, combining the subtleness of Japanese craft with the gritty of the Athenian facades.
