The Myconian Collection announced on 8 July 2025 that Sunrise, the house it took over at Agrari in 2024, had reopened on the southern coast of Mykonos after a redesign by Galal Mahmoud. It is the fourteenth address the Daktylides family holds on the island, and it came to them by acquisition rather than construction.
The setting
Agrari is a cove on the southern shore, 9 kilometres from Mykonos Town and about 20 minutes from the airport by car — close enough that the crossing is over before the island has registered, far enough that none of the town’s traffic reaches the bay. The house stands on the rocky hills above the sand and holds the beach in front of it as its own. The beach itself is reached only by car or by water taxi, which runs the coast to Platis Gialos.
Mykonos is the least likely island in Greece on which to attempt seclusion, and the southern coves are where the attempt is generally made. The house’s own account calls the bay one of the most secluded on the island, which is a smaller claim than it sounds and still worth making.
The provenance
George and Eleftheria Daktylides founded the Myconian Collection in 1979. The hotels are run now by their four sons, Panos, Markos, Vangelis and Marios, and Sunrise joined them in 2024, taking the group to 14 properties on a single island. That figure is most of the context. This is a second-generation Greek family extending ground it already holds, on an island where the news of the past few years has mostly been foreign brands arriving to plant a flag.
The design
Galal Mahmoud, who drew the redesign, has described the result as “the Mykonos we all experienced back in the 1970s and 1980s” — a line that reads as the brief he was given rather than as a description of what was built. What was built is whitewashed Cycladic volume, timber shutters, stone and wood left largely unworked, with the period showing in the furniture and the colour; the architecture is the island’s own. The rooms and suites run from garden-view doubles to a beachfront suite of two bedrooms with a jacuzzi deck, each with a terrace or a balcony.
The table
The kitchen and the beach club share one name, Almiriki, after the wild tamarisk. The taverna is on the sand: mezzes and light lunches through the day, then long lunches that run into dinner. A pool bar of the same name sits between the garden and the water. The produce comes off the family’s own farm, and the cooking is built from recipes passed down through generations, which is a harder thing to fake than a menu.
The spa
Treatment happens in the Almiriki Wellness Cabanas, open-air rooms in the tamarisk grove on the private beach, for herb-infused massage, mineral therapies drawn from the Aegean, and yoga at dawn and again at dusk. Sunrise takes the practice off the island as well, with full-moon yoga on Delos and sunset meditation on Rhenia.
The family began in 1979, which places the founding inside the decade the house now quotes back at its guests. What has been rebuilt at Agrari is not a period someone else’s designer researched from a distance; it is the one the family started in, on the same island, 13 houses before this one. That is the difference between a reference and a memory, and it is the difference between this house and most of what has arrived on Mykonos since.
The house makes the introduction, for those who ask.
