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We set out to restore this 200-year-old mountain farm in La Clusaz, Haute-Savoie, as a family project with Gwen, our children, and with the precious help of friends and relatives. As an architects and designer with my wife, @gwenaellegrandjean, architect and landscape designer we chose to rebuild it largely by hand, the way things used to be, with patience, care, and a sense of togetherness.

For me, this project is also deeply connected to my lifelong passion for the mountains, a passion I express not only through architecture, but also through my work in outdoor culture and design: the art direction of @zagskis in Chamonix, rebranding @millet_mountain , restoring @aubergeduperebise for @jeansulpice and more recently through the acquisition of @librairiedesalpes in Paris, one of the city’s oldest bookshops on Rue de Seine, dedicated to mountain and outdoor literature. This farm became another way of continuing that relationship with altitude, landscape, and craftsmanship.

From the very beginning, our meeting with the previous owners shaped the project. We wanted to honor their legacy, to walk in their footsteps, and to stay true to the spirit of this high-altitude farm. Our intention was a renovation guided by function before form, echoing the humility of traditional Alpine architecture and the restraint of the Shaker movement, where beauty arises from usefulness and necessity.

We sought a transformation that would not intrude on the vast landscape of the pastures, but would settle into it quietly, as if it had always belonged there. Every gesture, every detail, was guided by purpose: simple solutions, honest materials, and volumes shaped by what the place required ; nothing more, nothing less.

The result stands today: simple, imperfect, and functional, a reflection of our approach and of the time we spent bringing it back to life. We are proud to open it, and we hope we’ve given it another two hundred years beneath these mountains.

Because alone we are nothing and together we are stronger, we were fortunate to have the support of our friend @emmanuel_moussinet as architect of record. 
And of course best Kitchen are from @alpesinox 
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Sketching in Buenos Aires (some weeks ago)  with @mhstud , @richardbriggs_artist and @joaocatarino65.

Nice to meet you @mhstud !

Pen :@lamy.es
Ink : @rk.spain

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