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Architect engineer and founder of Eleni Karimali Architect, based in Rhodes since 2011. Trained at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy, she brings an Italian design education to the light, materials and way of life of the Aegean. Her studio designs hospitality, residential and retail spaces, and the landscapes around them, with bold character and a calm sense of luxury, where light, material and mood are designed together.
An architect engineer who designs interiors and landscapes: the building, the permit, the garden and every detail inside.
Interiors Awards 2025 Silver for Noema Centro, two BIG SEE Interior Design Awards (Naya Beach Bar 2023, Tabaco Club 2024) and features in Elle Decor Italia and Greek Interiors.
The details are not the details.
They make the design.
Studio
Achievements
A feature on Eleni Karimali and Obscura Cocktail Bar, Rhodes
“A young but already renowned Rhodian architect… the attention to detail typical of her projects.”
In the press
Noema Centro featured in Greek Interiors
Noema Centro is featured in Greek Interiors 2025 by Boussias (p. 82): a panzerotti restaurant in the heart of Rhodes where light becomes the main material.
Silver at the Interiors Awards 2025
Noema Centro receives Silver in the HoReCa category at the 10th Interiors Awards by Boussias, among the most important design awards in Greece.
Tabaco Club wins BIG SEE
Tabaco Club, a sculpted oak-veneer vault behind a combed Vratsa marble façade, wins the BIG SEE Interior Design Award 2024.
Naya Beach Bar wins BIG SEE
Naya, a timber pergola with five perforated domes on Faliraki Beach, wins the BIG SEE Interior Design Award 2023.
Obscura featured in Elle Decor Italia
Obscura, a cocktail bar inside the medieval walls of Rhodes Old Town, is featured in Elle Decor Italia: an honest dialogue between the medieval and the contemporary.
“We are grateful to have collaborated with Eleni and would wholeheartedly recommend her to anyone seeking an architect with vision, sensitivity to detail and the ability to transform an idea into an extraordinary space.”
Naya Beach Bar & RestaurantFaliraki, Rhodes · BIG SEE Interior Design Award 2023
“An excellent professional with a great eye for detail and design. … Highly recommended for anyone looking for an architect who combines aesthetics, functionality, and professionalism.”
Giannis RoditisTabaco Club, Rhodes · BIG SEE Interior Design Award 2024
“Glad that we had found a designer with such a sharp prospective. A true professional that is passionate with what she’s doing. The abilities, the accuracy and her determination was phenomenal!!”
Savvas KoumantziasOwner, Obscura the Bar
“The architect Eleni Karimali has excelled in all aspects of the realisation of the work she has performed for me and she is characterized by a powerful and enthusiastic drive for high quality and excellence.”
Pantelis KalliarosPantelis Restaurant, Symi
“Her amazing organizational abilities in addition to her incredible capacity to guide, advise and deal with the working crews resulted in the quick completion of the project without a day’s delay, a fact that impressed me immensely.”
Andreas KongosOwner, Andreas Hair & Nails
“Eleni’s ability to see your vision of what you want and to embellish and enhance it until it reaches perfection is astounding.”
ArchangelitissaOwner, Bakery Archangelitissa
