The client wanted a villa that feels both high-performance and invisible. He wanted real “club-level” sound without disturbing his guests, reliable internet in a part of Mykonos where landlines are poor, and no screens on the walls. Projecting & Sounding Art, working with the villa’s interior, lighting and landscape designers, met each of these in turn.
The indoor club is the heart of the villa. It is soundproofed so the music doesn’t carry to the guest suites, and a hidden outdoor sound system, with speakers finished to match the stone and planting, fills the sloping terrain. Rather than wall panels, the villa is controlled from iPads and discreet keypads, and the TVs sit recessed in the walls so they look like framed artworks.
The bedrooms feel like a five-star hotel. Each door has a keypad with “Do Not Disturb” and “Make Up My Room” indicators, which suits a home that regularly hosts high-profile guests. The villa stays online through a backup of satellite and 5G connections, so his business never goes offline. Security cameras with AI detection are linked to the alarm, so an intruder at the perimeter sets off warning lights and an alert long before they reach the house.
Because the villa is used in summer, the team skipped traditional heating and focused on cooling. The client can use a “Pre-Arrival” mode to cool the house from Dubai before his flight lands. His own Think One app also lets him change keypad functions and schedules himself, and he took his time before deciding the final labels on the keypads.
The indoor club was engineered with a dual-layer soundproofing approach using Acoustic Block and Green Glue damping compounds, decoupling the club's high-pressure acoustic energy from the rest of the villa's structure.
The James Loudspeaker Landscape Series was custom-finished to match the local stone and flora palette developed with the landscape architects, delivering high SPL per square inch while disappearing into the terrain.
Wall-mounted touchscreens were omitted entirely in favor of portable iPads and flexible Crestron keypads, preserving the interior design's architectural integrity.
Structural "shadow box" recesses were engineered into the walls so Sony 4K displays sit on a recessed base, creating the illusion of floating framed art rather than mounted screens.
