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by '74Escape 07/07/2025

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Creatives and Tastemakers on the Greek Islands 🇬🇷🤍
ESCAPE Magazine No.5

Scattered across the blue Aegean, the Greek islands have long lured artists, poets, and visionaries in search of beauty and solitude. Their mythic light, whitewashed villages, and timeless rhythms have inspired generations—from writers and painters to musicians and style icons.

HENRY MILLER
The Original Expat Rhapsody

In 1939, writer Henry Miller visited Hydra and saw in its bare rock and whitewashed lanes a kind of sublime simplicity. “𝘈𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵,” he wrote in The Colossus of Maroussi. Hydra, with its stoic architecture and crystalline light, offered him a “𝘱𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯”—a place to reflect and marvel. He wandered the cobbled streets, visited Nikos Ghika’s mansion, and returned with prose that captured the island’s quiet magic long before it was discovered by the creative elite.

“𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴, 𝘱𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘴, 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘮𝘺 𝘸𝘩𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨.” For Miller, Greece was more than a backdrop: it was a spiritual awakening. His time on Hydra and across the country crystallized in The Colossus of Maroussi, often considered his greatest work, where he wrote of the land’s “wild and naked perfection” and the unshakable vitality of its people. Long before Greece became a stage for the international creative set, Miller saw in its islands an eternal muse—timeless, elemental, and inexhaustibly inspiring.

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A bamboo haven by the sea 🌴🐘 Shop the curat

A bamboo haven by the sea 🌴🐘

Shop the curation now in Bodrum.
Find us at @macakizihotel

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Saturday’s in store 💛 #Culture #Craft #Curio

Saturday’s in store 💛

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A love letter to the shores between lands, where m

A love letter to the shores between lands, where myth meets memory and style drifts across the Aegean.

ESCAPE Magazine No.5

This issue lands with a cover story of a Greek muse in Bodrum, styled from the ‘74Escape curation at ESCAPE. Further inside: a Slow Islands journey from Patmos to Hydra, an excerpt from the Hydra Book Club Journal, interviews with artists and designers, this season’s playlists and so much more!

Pick up your copy in Bodrum, or DM us to order.

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We searched high and low, far and wide, to collect

We searched high and low, far and wide, to collect and curate a selection of goods that carry spirit and soul, goods to accompany on your summer travels across the coasts 💛

Here, every single piece tells a story.

Our community of creators each put forward their unique vision, rooted in history and heritage, preserving technique and tradition, and dedicated to empowering local artisans and craftsmen. They each tell their own new tales and share their dreams in every joyful collection.

Explore now at ESCAPE 🌴🐘

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