A family-led restoration

This 200-year-old Alpine farm in Haute-Savoie, was restored as a long-term family project, carried out largely by hand and at an unhurried pace. The approach followed traditional Alpine building methods, privileging manual work, patience, and a direct relationship with the site and its constraints.

Respecting memory and use

The project was shaped early on by the encounter with the former owners, whose lives were deeply tied to the farm and its surrounding pastures. Their history informed a renovation guided by function before form, echoing the humility of vernacular Alpine architecture and the functional rigor of the Shaker movement, where usefulness defines beauty.

Interiors shaped by craftsmanship

Furniture and objects were gathered over time, combining historic and modern references. Monastic tables from the 1950s sit alongside salvaged church benches, Maison Regain pieces, and Noguchi lamps. A fully stainless steel kitchen and a traditional stove reinforce the project’s functional clarity, resulting in a lived-in, durable interior shaped by use.

An architecture that accepts time

Rather than erasing traces of age, the restoration embraces repair and imperfection. The building was conceived to sit quietly within the pasture landscape, as if it had always belonged there. Simple solutions, honest materials, and volumes shaped by use define a project close in spirit to kintsugi, where transformation remains visible.

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