The New Cycladic Houses Buyers Are Chasing

The most sought-after houses in the islands are also the most modest looking: low, white, hand-smoothed, indistinguishable at a glance from the fishermen's cottages they replaced. That is precisely the point. The market has tired of glass boxes.

Buyers now ask for lime, not concrete; for cisterns, not pools. The same sensibility runs through Milan's quiet design studios and the cliff hotels of the Santorini caldera. Scarcity, here, is the architecture itself.