This Rethymno house by architecture firm Gkotsis Serafimidou stands strong on its clifftop plot, framed by Cretan mountains and gazing out across the South Cretan waters and the Libyan Sea beyond.

Greek interior designer Pallas Kalamotusis fine-tuned an abandoned renovation on an 18th-century house on the island of Patmos, Greece. Working with Athens-based Studio Pale, Pallas, head of ...