As every year, PHILIPPAKIS ART workshops will participate in the exhibition that will take place at the Metropolitan Expo in January 2024. You will find us in Hall 1, Corridor C, and booth number 29.

The exhibition will run from 10-14 January 2024 with opening hours 10:00am. - 7:00p.m. and it is only for merchants.

We will be happy to meet you in person and show you our handmade collection.

Our warmest wishes for the New Year!

Dimitris & Liz Philippakis

PHILIPPAKIS ART GROUP / Museummasters.gr / Shine4ever.gr / Philippakis.gr

We welcome a season full of holidays. Handmade gift proposals that will be loved. Museum copies of high aesthetic, our gift suggestions with a scent of Greece. Choose your gift and celebrate with your love ones! Chose among a geat variety of products made in Greece. Quality is guaranteed by Philippakis art workshops in Athens. Buy today on-line!

Stay connected, more to come!

We wish you all the best!
The MuseumMasters.gr Team

Dear friends,
Our workshop will be closed for summer from 15-29 August 2022! However, you can place your order through our online store. We will do our best to ship your order as soon as possible. In the case of delay you will be informed by e-mail. For items that are not in stock shipments will be executed the first week of September.

The quality of the art objects is guaranteed by our workshops, PHILIPPAKIS ART, which have been supporting art for 58 years.
We wish you a wonderful summer with health and safety!

#staysafe #enjoysummer

The artist Georgios Kastriotis was born in Athens on June 14, 1899. Life brought him so that the boy whose grandparents' roots were in Athens, could grow up in Paris. There he went to school, making his first statues of plasticine and clay. Good in Mathematics, he enrolled at the School of Engineering in Lausanne. He fell ill and did not finish. So he found himself again for two years in Paris, (1926-1928) which marked the path of his life.

The great French sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, deeply impressed by the talent of the young Greek who did not want to become an engineer but an artist, took him to teach him.

The video presents the workshops that the Benaki Museum cooperates throughout the years for the reproduction of copies to be sold exclusively by the museum's shop.

Philippakis Art workshops throughout the last 58 years invent ways and technics to create art objects, museum replicas / copies. All items are handmade and have as a main goal to promote greek art and civilization of our country to the world. 

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Throughout the years we, Philippakis Art workshops, have been blessed to work with various artists, well known, upcoming, beginers and all this time we have been discovering that its them who have taken as a step further. Together we have found new ways of coating various materials with metal, from shape, material absorbency, final formation to the exhibit itself. We are very fortunate to be able to work with them from the very begining of their projects. Many times we are both astonished from the output of their work and we are very satisfied to see that it was more than what they have expected!

Today we are going to present to you one of the projects that we have worked on with Georgia Kotretsos.

The small but most important museum that was created in the town of Nea Koutali on the island of Lemnos is another project that we decided we wanted to deal with. It was founded by the refugees of 1922 who dealt almost exclusively with sponge harvesting and the elaboration of the sponges. The exhibits of the Museum of Maritime Tradition and Sponge Fishing of New Koutali, show the naval tradition of the refugees from the island of Koutali in the Sea of Marmara before their uprooting, the sponge harvesting and the elaboration of the sponges. It displays the archaeological collection of Nea Koutali, which consists of items, that the sponge divers collected from the depths of the sea.

Stelios Gavalas

Stelios Gavalas was born in Athens in 1966. In 1985 he was admitted to the Athens School of Fine Arts and studied sculpture, while at the same time he studied in the laboratories of plaster, ceramics, wood carving and metalwork. In 1990 he received the Diploma in Sculpture with honors as well as a Diploma in Theoretical Studies. From 1992-1994 he lived in Sydney, Australia and experimented with modern materials for casting in collaboration with the Sydney School of Fine Arts.

The Historical Archive Museum was founded in 1918 on the left side of the main port of the island. In its imposing spaces it houses the fully reorganized Archives - Museum Service and the Library, and it operates on a daily basis for historical researchers, the islanders and all visitors. There are great paintings of the 19th century and a number of objects-relics from the Struggle of 1821, watercolors of the time, maps, navigation instruments, cannons, wood-carved acrophores and shipwrecks. Representative samples of historical documents of the 18th-19th century from the approximately 18,000 primary archival documents belonging to his collection as well as an impressive photographic archive of the island with the great naval tradition and history, which excites visitors even today, are on display.