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Residential house of the Exarchos family
Point 1/12
1920s–1930s
Year of construction
Benjamin Ginsburg
Architect
The street is dedicated to Grigoris Afxentiou, the insurgent leader of Cyprus independence campaigns against the British colonial government, the right hand of General Grivas.
The street has got a number of interesting buildings from different eras — a church, several mansions, a hospital, schools, residential buildings of the 1960s, but we will focus on only two of them.
The first is a small mansion with an unusual relief representing a curtain — one can see this particular feature from the street through a low fence with a fancy lattice. Cypriot Art Deco reflects Larnaca’s inhabitants sociability of a century ago, their contact with nature.
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The house has two terraces, inside there are two small bedrooms and several meeting spaces — a spacious salon-entrance hall, a big living room with a marble fireplace, columns and parquet floor.
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The kitchen and the room for everyday meals are separated by a wall with a huge built-in cupboard. This cupboard is unusual, through-the-wall — its doors open on both sides to make it easy to use from the kitchen and from the dining room. You could find this feature in the apartments in Europe between the two World Wars.
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The owner apologetically said that she was preparing to move out — the house was bought for demolition.
This is a typical story for all the“small houses” that we will see during this walk.
Let’s start here with a walk through the quarter which a hundred years ago was the center of attraction of urban life and the development of architecture.
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Let’s start here with a walk through the quarter which a hundred years ago was the center of attraction of urban life and the development of architecture.
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