Amyth of Nicosia occupies a building of around 1900 inside the Venetian walls of the old historic city, designed by an Italian architect as a private residence, later a school for girls, and then vacant for close to twenty-five years. Thanos Hotels & Resorts converted it into ten rooms and suites, a restaurant and bar open to the city, and two meeting rooms across. What survived set the brief: the carved and painted timber ceilings, the marble stair, the patterned entrance floor, the stone frame and the two projecting sachnisia were restored, and the interior behind them was rebuilt. Kitchens and plant sit in a new block of exposed concrete at the rear, so that no protected room was lost to servicing. Oak, iroko, stone, and leather were selected against the surfaces already in the building. Nothing original was imitated, and nothing new pretends to be old.
Operator Amyth Hotels (Thanos Hotel Management)
Landlord Holy Archbishopric of Cyprus — long-term land lease
Architecture, construction detailing, site supervision Eraclis Papachristou Architects
Architectural design team Eraclis Papachristou, Mark Hellicar, Agni Kouzari
Interior architecture and furnishing Maria Neophytou (Maria Neophytou Interior Designers)
Main contractor Roushas
Restoration of painted ceilings and historic detail Andrew Scott Stokes, antique restorer
Lighting design LUCE Ataliotis
Ceramics Studio Kuza (Elia Neophytou)
Commissioned textile installation Teresa Georgallis — “Woven Interlace”
Art collection Nine artists and design groups — see Arts at Amyth below
Thanos Hotels Group Executive Chef David Goodridge
