Dropping the kitsch décor of a Swiss chalet, Laurence
Rouveure, head of a London-based interiors firm Ardesia
Design has created a contemporary yet cosy weekend
hideaway in the outskirts of Gstaad, Switzerland.
The drive of the design was towards pure and clean
lines with a sense of lightness and neutral colours. The
designer concentrated on the design of pure and clean
lines of the 380 square meters lodge and carefully
selected a palette of natural materials. Avoiding a
conventional layout, Laurence divided the 5 bedroom-
bathrooms suites between the basement and the ground
floor and dedicated the top floor with its huge rooftop
apex to socialising and entertaining.
The walls throughout the house are covered by panels
of rough sawn Austrian timber that was slightly burnt,
brushed, and braised. Flooring is made up of wide
Danish planks from Dinesen of lye and white soap finish
fir that measure up to 16 meters long.
A palette of neutral and natural colours is to be found
throughout the all house, including grey tadelakt and
white Turkish limestone in the bathrooms. The natural
material of tadelakt, usually used in warm places, was
brought to this mountain interior and mixed with the
roughness of the wood.
30 . wood architecture