A landmark returned to the coast

Dexamenes was never imagined as an ordinary hotel. For Nikos Karaflos, it was a landmark he had known since childhood: a set of concrete wine tanks on the beach, built after the currant crisis to turn the region’s unsold black Corinth currants into wine. When his family took over the site, the buildings were abandoned, closed and almost impossible to read as hospitality. The work was not to disguise that past, but to make it habitable without silencing it. Each tank had to be opened, lit and solved differently. The result is a place where engineering, memory and restraint come together: a hotel that lets guests live inside the industrial and agricultural history of the Western Peloponnese.