Kalesma added an extension of rooms and junior suites in June 2025, along with a common bathing area and an all-day taverna called Kuveda. The work changed the proportions of a Mykonos house that had opened in 2021 around 25 suites with individual pools and two larger villas. Two published totals for the addition, 19 and 21, leave the arithmetic publicly unresolved even though the change in scale is plain to see.
The setting
The house occupies 2 hectares at Aleomandra, between Ornos and Agios Ioannis bays. Mykonos Town lies 3.8 kilometres away, close enough for an evening there to be practical while leaving the house outside its dense centre. White buildings descend on both sides of the ridge among olive trees, lavender, vines and bougainvillea, so the site reads as a series of small levels instead of one resort frontage.
That topography made the first accommodation unusually secluded. Each suite occupied its own step, with the sea appearing beyond a low wall or at the far edge of its water below. The 2025 additions introduce more shared ground into that arrangement. A second common pool now sits beside the new rooms, creating a social centre that the older accommodation did not need.
The provenance
Aby Saltiel and Makis Kousathanas opened the property four years earlier. The original offer was deliberately narrow in type: 25 suites with private pools, followed by two villas intended for larger parties. Its village language came from low architecture, but its intimacy depended on more than white walls. Accommodation was dispersed and much of the daily life happened in a guest’s own outdoor space.
The addition alters that balance without removing the first one. Original suites and villas remain available, while smaller rooms, junior suites and common facilities broaden the pattern of use. That is a material development for a house whose reputation rested partly on how little of it had to be communal.
The design
Studio Bonarchi drew the new rooms and junior suites within K-Studio’s existing architectural language. Dark timber ceilings, cane panels and full-height openings continue the older material register, while the reduced floor areas make the exterior do more of the spatial work. The photographs show the addition stepping across the same hillside, its communal swimming area occupying a long platform below the accommodation.
Continuity is visible, although it should not be confused with sameness. The original suites were organised around private water and generous outdoor ground. In the new categories, a balcony or jetted tub becomes the principal exterior element, and the shared pool carries the swimming that the room itself no longer provides.
The rooms
The published presentation gives both new categories 27 square metres inside and 16 square metres outside. Deluxe Rooms open to a sea-facing balcony; Junior Suites add a jetted tub on the terrace. The equal dimensions put the decision on that outdoor feature rather than on interior space.
Against them, an established suite category measures 63 square metres inside and has a private pool. The difference is substantial enough to create two ways of staying at one address. Privacy and water remain attached to the larger suites, while the new wing offers a smaller room beside shared facilities. The unresolved count matters because it determines how far the communal side of the house has grown.
The table
Kuveda opened in 2025 beside the new pool. A long oak table provides its centre. It joins Pere Ubu, the original restaurant courtyard, and gives the enlarged house another place to distribute breakfast, lunch and dinner; more guests require another centre of gravity on the ridge.
The retreat is no longer the size it was at opening. Its first suites still provide private water, while the 2025 wing introduces smaller rooms, shared swimming and a taverna built around company. The test of the expansion is whether those two patterns can occupy the ridge without the newer one overwhelming the proportion that made the older house distinct.
