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The house is in the Style Sapin, the Swiss variant of Art Nouveau. The chalet on the forested hillside near La Chaux-de-Fonds, is a large traditional chalet with a steep roof in the local alpine style, and is decorated with carefully crafted colored geometric patterns on the façade, with a design of triangular pine trees and pine cones.
The Manoir de Ban, or Champ de Ban Estate Manor, is a manor house located at Corsier-sur-Vevey on the banks of Lake Geneva in Switzerland.The property is known for having been Charlie Chaplin's home for 25 years, from 1952 until his death in 1977. [1]
Houses in Switzerland by family (1 C) H. Historic house museums in Switzerland (22 P) O. Official residences in Switzerland (4 P) P. Palaces in Switzerland (3 P) V.
Aluminum southern façade added in 1951. The Villa Le Lac was specifically designed for two elderly people without servants; in this case, Le Corbusier's parents.It measures 64 square metres (690 sq ft) in area, or 4 metres (13 ft) by 16 metres (52 ft), with the longer side following Lake Geneva's coastline.
Villa Senar is an estate built in Switzerland by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninoff. He purchased the plot of land near Hertenstein on the shores of Lake Lucerne in 1932. The name of the estate originated from the names of Rachmaninoff and his wife: Sergei and Natalia, by combining the first two letters of each given name and the first of ...
The church houses Switzerland's greatest series of figurative murals, painted in the first half of the 9th century. Some frescoes were painted over but restored in the 20th century. Since the 12th century, the convent has been used as a religious centre for Benedictine sisters. [6]
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