The draw of minimal design, particularly when it comes to architecture and interior design, is twofold: the timelessness of the aesthetics (by means of discovering the essence and value of a thing), and the design nuances that minimalism offers.

This 70m2 office in the center of Heraklion is characterized by a glass wall with the Mdf Italia bookcases which separates the day and night zones. Through this glass wall there is an uninterrupted flow of both east and west sunlight. The innovative feature in this office is the open character of the area, which challenges the accepted notion of a separate, enclosed main office, fully embracing open-plan living.

Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. It’s a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, and vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance. It is the persistent search for purity, the search for serenity, for silence as a presence, for the thickness of spaces, and for space as immensity. Minimalism is beyond time—it is timelessness, it is noble and simple materials, it is the stillness of perfection. It has to be the being itself, uncovered by useless crusts, not naked but completely defined by itself, by its being.