LONG HOT summer

There's a simple ease to this luxurious Greek home that makes keeping cool a breeze

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‘The gently sloped stone residence appears as if it is a continuation of the surrounding rocky landscape and was designed by Scope Architects, with the exterior areas by Fytron Landscapes.

Residing most of the year in Chicago, where her eponymous design studio is based, Cari thinks of Greece as her special place. ‘My husband’s parents are from Greece,’ she says. ‘He spent his summers travelling around the country, but Chania [in Crete] was always home. When he introduced me to the city, I quickly fell in love. We were married there, baptised our children there and every summer visited his yiayia [grandmother] in her home. After a few years, we decided to spend more time here and began searching for land to build.’