"On the perennial party isle of Mykonos, Paris-based designer Fabrizio Casiraghi, of Experimental Chalet, Verbier, has created Ftelia Beach Club. This burnt-orange cluster of bungalows and bars on the northern shore was inspired by the terra-cotta roof tiles and white vernacular architecture of the island that Casiraghi saw from his plane the first time he flew in. The club terraces down, amphitheater-like, toward the sand. In the restaurant above, an international and athletic crowd (the area is a windsurfing hot spot) tucks into rooted but refined Greek grub—lobster, sea urchin, and taramosalata—washed down with Assyrtiko, a minerally white from hot new Santorini winemaker Vassaltis. Then they might fall asleep in one of the club’s über-cool ’60s armchairs by Gae Aulenti."
