4 Best Places to Shop in Rhodes and the Dodecanese, Greece

Since 1970 the owner has traveled throughout Greece each winter to fill his shop with vintage and antique finds, ranging from ceramics, prints, and watercolor paintings to military medals from Greece's many 19th- and 20th-century wars.

George is a professional iconographer, and one of a half dozen employed to professionally paint and restore frescoes in the island's churches. His workshop doubles as a small shop, where he sells his remarkable art, hand-painted onto wood with pigment and gold, and runs workshops teaching the skills of the Byzantine fresco painters to visitors. Even if you just stop by (it's best to call ahead if visiting), he's an engaging companion and always thrilled to discuss his work. He also paints commissions.

Whether made of ceramic, glass, silver, or wood, each work—by one of 40 different Greek artists—displayed in a former boatbuilding shop is unique.