Greek-based architectural and interior design company LIME DECO designed in Oia, Santorini this beautiful cave-house of two levels, “The Marble Sun” villa. It was built around 1900 and covers 120 square meters. Like all cave-houses in Santorini, «The Marble Sun» villa is a building without foundations, imposes with nothing interrupting the lines and colors of the caldera. It doesn’t have a wide façade and has the shape of a cross, having centered the door entrance and left and right the windows. The main gate, the entrance, and the windows have the traditional decorative frame of the red limestone, known as a “pori”. The main space consists of the living room, dining room, and kitchen.
Deeper in the cave there is one bedroom with a bathroom which is also a part of a cave. An internal staircase leads us to the upper floor where the 2nd bedroom is located, with its own bathroom, and this in the dome that is created from the extension of the cave. For the overall interior of the cave and in order to emphasize the existing natural plasticity, it was chosen the use of a grey cement mortar, with a small tonic deviation. Natural materials such as linen, metal in grey color have been used in the decoration, with a generally abstract approach in order to star the amazing energy of the space.