Architecture firm K-Studio has designed a neo-modernist interior for this boutique hotel in its hometown of Athens, using local artworks and furnishings.

A member of Design Hotels, Perianth Hotel is K-studio's first hotel project in the Greek capital – a mainland addition to the firm's island-forward portfolio of restaurants and seaside resorts.

Located in Agia Eirini, a Byzantine-era square near the buzzing Monastiraki district, the hotel opened in November 2018 as a long-anticipated newcomer to Athens' boutique hotel scene.
The art deco building was constructed in the 1930s to house retail spaces, offices and apartments, without much regard for its future legacy.

Despite an irregular floor plan, its owners, the Sgoumpopoulos family, decided to convert the then-vacant building into a design-focused hospitality project – one that would help inspire a city recovering from economic crisis.
Anastasia Sgoumpopolous, who co-manages the property with her two siblings, commissioned childhood friends Dimitris and Konstantinos Karampatakis of K-studio to revive the building.

Its stripped-down interior exposes structural elements of historical value from the Athenian Modernist movement of the early 20th century. "The shape of the building is quite unusual, nearly octagonal, and we embraced that trait," Sgoumpopolous told Dezeen.

Working around existing columns and openings, K-studio's floor plan aimed to minimise structural restrictions by creating an unc...