Small Adamidis-Vlachlidis apartment building

13 Karneadou St, 1933

Architect
Dimitri Fotiadi (1894-1974)
Associate architect
Ioannis Halepas



The small Adamidis-Vlachlidis apartment building was one of the first implementations in Athens of the two-floor apartment (duplex), which is a smaller form or substitute for the bourgeois private house. It is a work by D.A. Fotiadi, who studied at the École Spéciale d’Architecture and was one of the basic modernisers of the middle-class apartment building in the interwar period.
Built in Kolonaki, one of the most expensive districts in Athens, this building consists of a ground floor and four upper ones, the last of which is set back. On the ground floor there is an office, the caretaker’s flat and service areas. The upper floors are arranged with two two-storey duplexes on each. The living and dining rooms are on one floor together with the service area, and the bedrooms on the second floor.
The façades are simple with the formal repetition of the stylistic features of balconies and openings on the floors and the emphasis of the entrance with an arch.
Stylistically they are an example of moderate modernism showing a French influence with Art Déco features.

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