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~ Dominic and Claire Skinner
~ Architecture and Interior Design

Rou Estate started as one idea between two people

Rou Estate started as one idea between two people — and twenty years of relationships with the craftsmen, builders and local knowledge that make a project like this possible in the Ionian. That partnership is now three businesses: Skinner & Skinner Design, @ionianestates and @townhouseco
Different skills. Same eye for beauty detail.

Photos: @itsjamiejames
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#SkinnerAndSkinner #RouEstate #IonianIslands #Corfu #DesignPartnership

Steps into the sea at Faliraki, Corfu Old Town, te

Steps into the sea at Faliraki, Corfu Old Town, ten minutes on foot from our Liston Suites, available to book through @townhouseco
July and August reward the early risers: before the heat, before the town wakes up properly. Just the water against the rock, and swifts dipping for insects.

Photo and Video: @itsjamiejames

Stone quay, wooden bench, one ironwork lamppost, a

Stone quay, wooden bench, one ironwork lamppost, all that is required.

Restraint like this is a discipline, not an accident: time spent simply looking, before drawing a single line, understanding how a building will sit against land, sea and sky, and what it's being asked to do.

Returning to a location at different times of the day to observe the light, the line of sight, the landscape, the water, to notice their relationship to each other, to place, and let that inform the design and build.

Villas, Suites and Architectural Landscaping: @skinnerandskinnerdesign
Photo: @itsjamiejames with @g.rods
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#SkinnerAndSkinner #LifestyleByDesign #Corfu #IonianIslands #ArchitecturalDesign

The interiors at Shell House, north-east Corfu. T

The interiors at Shell House, north-east Corfu.

The palette here was drawn on the sea itself, not one shade of it but many. The deep turquoise of some of the North Eastern coves on a clear afternoon. The pale grey-blue of the water before the sun has fully risen. The chalky white of a wave breaking on limestone. The washed green of shallow water over pebbles. Every room carries a different register of the same source.

Against the warmth of the stone exterior and the Corfiot landscape outside, the interior reads as an immersion rather than a contrast, as though the sea has been brought inside and held still.
The pieces throughout are a mix of bespoke and found, antique furniture stripped back to bare wood, a chest worn to a verdigris patina, ceramics in muted glaze, geometric screening that echo the pattern of light on water. The covered courtyard connects the two buildings, the turquoise-painted door marking the threshold between them.

📍 Shell House, North-east Corfu. Architecture, interiors and landscape by Skinner & Skinner Design.
Photo: @clivenichols
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#corfuvilla #interiordesigngreece #ionianislands #greekarchitecture #coastalinteriors #northeastcorfu

The gardens at Cassiopeia, at the end of the day.

The gardens at Cassiopeia, at the end of the day.
Stipa tenuissima catches the last light along the path, the feather grass moving in the evening breeze while everything else has begun to still. Allium rises through it in clusters of pink. Thymus serpyllum 'Pink Chintz' creeps along the path edge, and Cistus créticus 'Sainte Florent' holds the middle ground in hot pink.
The uncut limestone boulder at the centre of the border is original to the site, retained and planted around rather than removed. Behind, mature olive and Italian cypress frame the Ionian channel, the Albanian mountains fading into the evening haze.
The planting is naturalistic by design, species chosen to move, seed and change through the season rather than hold a fixed form. The flagstone path was set to follow the existing topography of the headland rather than cut through it.

Cassiopeia occupies a five-acre private headland on the Kassiopia Estate, north-east Corfu, with a private beach, jetty, 20-metre saltwater infinity pool, and grounds that reward an hour's walking.

📍 Villa Cassiopeia, Kassiopia Estate, north-east Corfu.
Architecture, interiors and landscape by Skinner & Skinner Design.
Available to rent via @ionianestates.
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#kassiopeiaestate #corfuvilla #ionianislands #landscapearchitecture #mediterraneangarden #greekarchitecture #northeastcorfu

The pool at Koroneiki sits at the edge of the terr

The pool at Koroneiki sits at the edge of the terrace, its curved form stepping down from the stone-set surround into the hillside below.
A glass balustrade keeps the sightline to the Ionian uninterrupted, the channel, the mainland mountains, the last of the evening light across the water.

The oval pool form was chosen over a rectangular plan to follow the natural fall of the site. Where a straight edge would have fought the contours, the curve works with them. A mature olive grows through the terrace level beside it, its canopy spreading over the seating area, shade that no pergola could replicate.

Koroneiki sits on the Kardaki Estate, north-east Corfu. Six bedrooms, all king-size, four in the main house and two as standalone garden suites, each with its own terrace and sea view.

📍 Koroneiki — Kardaki Estate, north-east Corfu- Available to rent via @ionianestates.
Architecture, interiors and landscape by Skinner & Skinner Design.
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#kardakiestate #corfuvilla #ionianislands #greekarchitecture #northeastcorfu #luxuryvilla

Featured in @homesandgardensofficial this week. K

Featured in @homesandgardensofficial this week.

Kouloura is a 15th-century property on the north-east coast of Corfu, one of the most historically layered sites we've worked with.
In collaboration with @paulbangay the gardens were redesigned to reveal a sequence of relaxing spaces that draw you progressively closer to the water and the landscape around them.

Thanks to @gardenvisitoruk for the feature and @clivenichols for the photography; head to @homesandgardensofficial to read it in full.

Kouloura is available to book through @ionianestates.
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#kouloura #corfu #corfugreece #ionianislands #ioniansea #villarestoration #skinnerandskinner #venetian #greekarchitecture #corfuvilla

The Sunday Times put Rou Estate in their top 100 p

The Sunday Times put Rou Estate in their top 100 places to stay in the world. Harper's Bazaar named it Greece's best mountain escape.

A 200-year-old Corfiot village, restored stone by stone by Dominic and Claire Skinner, on the northeast coast of Corfu. The views from the infinity pool across the Ionian Sea to Albania explain both.

@rouestate Villas are available to book via @simpsontravel
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Photo: @clivenichols
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#rouestate #corfu #corfugreece #ionianislands #luxuryvilla #greekarchitecture #skinnerandskinner #ioniansea #villacorfu #harpersbazaar #sundaytimes

The Rou Estate was built for exactly this. A 200-

The Rou Estate was built for exactly this.

A 200-year-old Corfiot village, restored stone by stone, with Albania visible across the channel at dawn and nothing between you and the mountains but the Ionian Sea.
The yoga pavilion sits at its edge. The view is the practice.

@rouestate - Northeast Corfu.
Booking @simpsontravel
Design, Architecture & Build: @skinnerandskinnerdesign
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#rouestate #corfu #corfugreece #yogaretreat #ionianislands

The west coast of Paxos is on the wilder side. Me

The west coast of Paxos is on the wilder side.

Mellow but steep cliffs, the colour of biscuit and cream, densely scented pine, and narrow un-made roads that give almost nothing away of the mesmerising and lazuline sea beyond.

One of our most ambitious projects to date, Koukouvaya sits atop one of the steeper precipices.

A seven-bedroom villa arranged over three levels, with a black infinity pool on the edge of a pale stone terrace, and nothing but the Ionian Sea stretching out to the horizon, and the sunsets you came for.

The pines between the house and the terrace remain deliberately, offering shade and a frame. Rosemary, aloe and Acanthus mollis break up the pale stone terrace and steps.

Architecture and interiors by @skinnerandskinnerdesign 📍Paxos, Greece.
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#koukouvaya #paxos #paxosgreece #ionianislands #ionianislands🇬🇷 #greekarchitecture #skinnerandskinner #infinitypool #mediterraneandesign #villadesign #luxuryvilla #westpaxos

Kouloura, originally built as a fortress by the Ve

Kouloura, originally built as a fortress by the Venetians in the 15th century, on a harbour so quietly perfect that it has been written about, photographed and returned to by the same families for generations.

The renovation and restoration are ours. Whitewashed walls, sea-blue shutters, terraces that sit directly above the water, with Albania visible across the channel on a clear day. The newly landscaped gardens feel as though they predate the house.
The taverna just steps away is a classic family-run Greek fish taverna renowned for its catch-of-the-day seafood, laid-back atmosphere, and unbeatable waterfront views, and it feels like it's been there just as long as the Kouloura itself.

Available for booking with @ionianestates
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#kouloura #corfu #corfugreece #ionianislands #ioniansea #villarestoration #skinnerandskinner #venetian #greekarchitecture #corfuvilla

Dom at the table. Corfu Town. A project in proces

Dom at the table. Corfu Town.

A project in process, where floor plans, fabric, leather and paint swatches, and reference photographs, form the working surface in the library room at Claire and Dom's Corfu home. Just across the courtyard, a light and airy office, the centre of Skinner and Skinners Corfu operations.

At Skinner and Skinner, the boundary between living and designing has never been clearly drawn. The work comes home. The home informs the work. Twenty-plus years of building in the Ionian, and the process still looks the same.

📍 Corfu Town.
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A wrought iron lantern suspended within a semicirc

A wrought iron lantern suspended within a semicircular arch. The Liston Arcade, Corfu Old Town.

The Liston was built in 1807 under French occupation, modelled on the Rue de Rivoli in Paris. The arcade runs the length of the Esplanade, a sequence of rounded arches carried on plain piers, the voussoirs cut from local limestone, the soffits rendered white. It is one of the most considered pieces of urban architecture in Greece, and it is a two-minute walk from our @townhouseco office.

Dom has been working in this town since 2004. The proportions of this arcade, the ratio of arch to pier, the depth of the soffit, and the way the opening frames what lies beyond are part of the architectural vocabulary that informs the projects the studio undertakes.

This is the context in which Skinner & Skinner has been designing and building for over two decades. From a place with four centuries of considered building behind it.

📍 The Liston, Corfu Old Town, two minutes from the @townhouseco office.
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#corfuoldtown #corfu #venetianarchitecture #greekarchitecture #ioniangrace #architecturedetail #corfudesign

The limestone pathway at Villa Kilifi steps around

The limestone pathway at Villa Kilifi steps around the rock rather than through it.

The boulders here are original to the hillside, part of the Kardaki Estate's geology, exposed and retained as the site was developed. The dressed stone paving was set to follow the existing contours, accommodating the outcrop rather than clearing it. Rosemary and lavender are planted along the approach, so the entrance is scented before it is seen.

The arch at the entrance draws on a specifically Corfiot architectural grammar, the semi-circular opening flanked by two shallow niches, a form that appears throughout the island's Venetian-era buildings, on doorways, chapel facades and garden gates. Here, it marks the transition from the terraced approach into the villa itself, a young wisteria trained to the right-hand reveal beginning its slow work of framing the opening.

The antique terracotta urn pulls the eye down from the olive canopy before the arched threshold draws it back up.

📍 Villa Kilifi, Kardaki Estate, North-East Corfu.
Architecture, interiors and landscape by Skinner & Skinner Design. Available to rent via @ionianestates.
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#kardakiestate #corfuvilla #ionianislands #greekarchitecture #landscapearchitecture #venetianarchitecture

Twenty plus years. Over 100 projects — villas, e

Twenty plus years. Over 100 projects — villas, estates, restorations, and boats — across Corfu, Paxos, the Greek islands, the mainland, and beyond. All of them in two minutes.

Behind every one of them are two people. Today belongs to one.
Happy birthday, Dom!
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Photography from:
@clivenichols @itsjamiejames @costastsiringakis
Dafni Colla and the Skinner and Skinner Team
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#SkinnerAndSkinner #LifestyleByDesign #Corfu #Paxos #IonianIslands

The work continues at the Old Soap Factory, Loggos

The work continues at the Old Soap Factory, Loggos, Paxos.

The reinforcement mat is laid. The retained perimeter walls, rubble limestone, hand-set brick arches, and render worn back to its history stand as they have for over a century. New concrete will be poured within them. The steel portal frame sits inside the original masonry envelope, touching it as little as possible.

Dominic Skinner has been on site throughout, reading the building as it opens up: which voids to preserve, which thresholds to keep, where the new structure can sit without disturbing what was already there.
This is the part of a restoration that doesn't photograph easily. The decisions made now, in the structure, below the floor, within the walls, are the ones that determine whether the finished building holds its integrity or loses it.

📍 Old Soap Factory, Loggos, Paxos.
Restoration and architectural direction by Skinner & Skinner Design.
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📷 @itsjamiejames Dominic Skinner and @clivenichols
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#loggospaxos #paxos #heritagerestoration #adaptivereuse #greekarchitecture #industrialarchitecture

Four semi-circular arches form the ground-floor lo

Four semi-circular arches form the ground-floor loggia at Velanidia, lit from within at dusk, their geometry reflected almost as precisely as the building itself.

The building is dressed throughout in coursed Corfiot limestone, the consistent bed height holding the façade together across its full width. Above the loggia, full-height glazed doors open onto the first-floor terrace, set behind a continuous glass balustrade, offering unobstructed views of the Ionian and the mainland beyond. The roofline disappears into mature woodland behind.

📍 Velanidia, above Agios Stefanos beach, north-west Corfu.
Architecture and landscape by Skinner & Skinner Design.
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#corfuvilla #greekarchitecture #ionianislands #mediterraneanarchitecture #stonemasonry #corfudesign

A steel-grated jetty set just off the rocks, light

A steel-grated jetty set just off the rocks, light underfoot, clear water below, and a ladder placed for an easy return from the sea. The structure is kept deliberately simple: galvanised edges, open mesh to let spray and sand pass through, and a line that projects far enough to clear the shallows.

For clients with direct beach access, it sets a clear route to the water: terrace to stone, rock to jetty, ladder to sea.

📍 Corfu
Skinner & Skinner Design · Lifestyle by design - architecture, interiors & landscape across Corfu, Paxos and the wider Ionian. For private villas, restorations and hospitality projects, please contact the studio via the link in bio.
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#SkinnerAndSkinner #LifestyleByDesign #CorfuArchitecture #IonianLiving #MediterraneanDesign #CoastalArchitecture #LandscapeDesign #PoolDesign #OutdoorLiving #GreekIslands #DesignThatBelongs #ArchitecturalDetails

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in

“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.” ~ Jacques Cousteau.
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📍Loggos Harbour, Paxos.
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#paxos #ionianislands #greekislands #paxosgreece #seasidearchitecture #greececoast

Shutters back, salt air in, Agni bay right outside

Shutters back, salt air in, Agni bay right outside the window.

Spiti Antigoni is a fully restored fisherman’s cottage sitting right on Agni beach, on Corfu’s north-east coast, with the sea approximately ten metres from the covered terrace.

The plan is compact and straightforward: open-plan living with a marble-topped kitchen and dining for four, two shower rooms, and two bedrooms (a super-king master and a second room with queen-size bunks).
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📍Spiti Antigoni — Agni, Corfu - Available to rent via @ionianestates
Restoration and interior design by Skinner & Skinner Design.
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#corfu #agni #ionianislands #greekarchitecture #interiordesigngreece #beachhouse

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