Domes announced Neema Maison Finikia Santorini on 3 July 2025, and the house will open in July 2025 as the first address of The Finds, the fifth sub-brand the group operates. It stands in Finikia, north Santorini, the old village behind Oia, car-free and 2 kilometres on foot from Oia itself.
The suite count is 16 at opening, three of them with in-room jacuzzis, cut into the volcanic stone the island is built from. The house takes adults only. It is the group’s second house on Santorini, after the family-facing Domes Novos opened near the north-west coast in 2024. Finikia puts this one inland among cave houses and pedestrian alleys, so a small house gets the island without a position on the caldera rim.
One line drawn through the building
The Greek practice Urban Soul Project drew the interiors, 2,000 sqm of them, for a 2025 completion. The brief from Domes asked for a Santorini house that broke the whitewashed Cycladic default, and the answer turns on one device: a metal thread that runs through the rooms as a single unbroken line. It picks up at the reception desk, follows the edges of the architecture, disappears into the cabinetry and finishes on a wall as a piece scaled to the room, borrowed from fashion drawing and from weaving.
Red does much of the rest. It is the house’s own colour, cutting through the textured neutrals of reception, returning in headboards and bathroom details, then once more at the pool’s edge as a custom tile carrying the woven Neema pattern. Around the water the shapes curve: carved sunbeds and a long communal table that follows the line of a runway. The bar is shaped as a sculpture in its own right.
The guest rooms are composed like a photographic shoot. Vanity lights frame the mirrors the way a dressing room does, headboards are tiled in patterns that read as fabric swatches and the furniture is made for the house and covered in strong upholstery. Sculpted cave suites sit among the sea-facing rooms, and the woven pattern is worked into wardrobe panels and custom tiling, a texture a guest can feel. Maria Tsaftari was partner in charge, with Polina Liarostathi, Nikoletta Daniil and Nikoletta Gkoka as lead architects.
The name carries the same idea. Neema is the Greek word for thread, and the thread is Ariadne’s, the one she gave Theseus to get him out of the labyrinth.
The table, the terrace and the boutique
Antonino’s is the group’s new Italian concept, open-air beside the main pool, serving Italian classics that run to handmade pasta and wood-fired pizza, with salads, a long wine list and cocktails at lunch and dinner. The pool bar beside it looks out at the horizon. The register borrows from the Italian beach summers of the 1960s.
Wellbeing is kept plain: outdoor yoga and Pilates on the terrace each day, and massages on request. Neema Boutique sits inside the house and carries resortwear by Greek designers next to international labels, under a name the group already uses for its own resortwear line. Guests also reach Helestia, the group’s caldera club, by shuttle, where a place is held for dining, drinks and the sunset.
The group’s four other labels are Domes Originals, Domes Aulūs, Domes Noruz and Domes Reserves. Domes has 14 properties in Greece and one in southern Portugal.
Who is this for
Two people in no hurry, who notice how a room is put together and would rather settle in than tour. The rooms differ enough to choose by: some with a jacuzzi, some with a kitchen, some with a loft. Outside the door the village works at its own pace, with bakeries and wine cellars and olive presses among the vineyards. An afternoon goes on a sculpture class, a wine tasting or a horse ride, and sunset is watched from a village street.
