95. Shop & Home - CiSmART Pottery
Brief documentation:
This building, at 8 Ioakeim Sgourou Street in the old Xanthi, was built in the early 20th century and was used as an agency of the British fire insurance company "National" by Dimitrios Daniel, while the upper floor was used as a residence.
Later it was repeatedly resold to new owners, while in recent years the semi-basement has housed the art gallery BALKAN ART GALLERY and more recently the ceramics workshop CiSmART Pottery of the artist Maria Arapaki. It is a building with neoclassical elements, which has a semi-basement, an elevated ground floor and an upper floor. The corner pilasters of the building have horizontal linear decoration and coarsely designed capitals, in the openings there are stepped lintels and sills, while frames separate the different levels of the building. The upper floor is separated from the other levels of the building, has more windows and protrudes from the ground floor, forming a peculiar sachnisi that is supported by iron bars and offers more space to the house. The eaves, protruding on the flat roof, form a balcony with a protective metal parapet.
Category of thematic interest: ARCHITECTURAL/HISTORICAL/CULTURAL/FOLKLORE INTEREST
History:
This building was built in the early 20th century and was used as an agency of the British fire insurance company "National" by Dimitrios Daniel, while the upper floor was used as a residence. Later it was repeatedly resold to new owners. In recent years, the semi-basement has housed an art gallery and recently Maria Arapaki's CiSmART Pottery ceramic workshop.
Elements of architecture:
It is a building with neoclassical elements, which has a semi-basement, an elevated ground floor and an upper floor. The corner pilasters of the building have horizontal linear decoration and coarsely designed capitals, in the openings there are stepped lintels and sills, while frames separate the different levels of the building. The upper floor is separated from the other levels of the building, has more windows and protrudes from the ground floor, forming a peculiar sachnisi that is supported by iron bars and offers more space to the house.
Description of other elements:
The eaves, protruding on the flat roof, form a balcony with a protective metal parapet.
Purpose - Use: Residence, Commercial space, Cultural site
Characterization: Ministry of Culture / DILAP / C / 1391 / 19776 / 02-06-1986, Government Gazette 522 / B / 21-07-1986
Dating (period): Early 20th century
Year of construction: Early 20th century
Location of the monument: 41.14329, 24.88721
Bibliographic references:
• Katsari-Vafiadis, J. Ed. 2023. "History and recording of the neoclassical buildings of the traditional settlement". Xanthi: Municipality of Xanthi, p. 92
Address: Ioakeim Sgourou 8
Visitable: No