Miltos Dallas designed the original structure on Grikos Bay in 1960 as part of Greece's state-sponsored Xenia programme, the mid-century initiative that seeded modernist hotels across the Greek islands at a moment when the country was building its tourism identity from scratch. That lineage gives Patmos Aktis, a Luxury Collection Resort & Spa, an unusual depth of place: the bones of the building carry sixty-five years of Aegean light and salt air, now reinterpreted by Stylianidis Vaggelis Architects and interior designer Patricia Anastassiadis of Anastassiadis Architecture & Design, with the property reopening in 2025 across 56 rooms, suites, and maisonettes set directly on the bay. Anastassiadis works in a palette of cream plaster, white-painted timber beams, and soft Aegean blue that feels genuinely earned by the landscape outside rather than applied to it. The guestrooms show arched niches cut into thick white walls, polished concrete floors kept cool underfoot, woven rattan bench ends at the foot of each bed, and linen curtains pooling against full-height glazed doors that frame the water and the arid hills beyond. At the terrace restaurant, chunky whitewashed columns open onto an unobstructed view of the bay, the furniture a mix of solid walnut drum tables and cane-back dining chairs in honey oak. The upper pool court is more architectural: a long lap pool pressed against a row of whitewashed cabana walls, olive trees pruned into geometric spheres punctuating the limestone deck with an almost monastic calm.