A retreat for relishing time in the Grison Alps. Enjoying the weekend with family and friends. Cooking and eating together, going for a walk or lounging casually on the sofa with a book. All that in an environment where you can feel at home but which also gives you that sophisticated lifestyle. And Widmer Wohnen is only too happy to set about the task of creating this paradise. An exciting challenge to bring this house, which is built into the slope, back to life, get the maximum out of its very small rooms and create a modern, comfortable retreat. A complex conversion project gets underway, the results of which exceed all expectations.
Gentle, warm brown and copper tones shape the interior design of this holiday home. All colour nuances and materials chosen combine to create an aura of light, nature and exclusivity. An elegant, extravagant oven welcomes incoming guests with its warmth. Everyone gathers around the long table in the open-plan room. Designer Dany Widmer has a trick for solving the problem of confined space: Diagonals on the floors and front sections together with specially designed furniture convey an elegant feeling of space. The alpine furnishing is in harmony with the surrounding mountains.
The exquisite materials and attention to detail of the Widmer design is particularly expressed in the clear lines of the kitchen that has been specially made. Wonderful grains of the wooden beams, profiled visible edges on the dark New Emperador marble worktops, shiny cupboard fronts, laser-cut sheet with copper leaves as a stair railing: everything has been stylishly conceived and masterfully implemented together with Real-Stein AG and their range of unique natural stone. This is where culinary masterpieces can also happen.
While the ground floor is set for living, cooking and eating, there are three private bedrooms and three bathrooms in the basement that is located halfway into the mountain. Here, the challenge was to get the right light conditions and a genuine ‘home’ feeling. The typical Widmer way of using the same material – in this case it was oak wood – in a variety of unusual ways, combined with the ‘cosy’ feel (you notice the 3D bear-skin-look deep-pile carpet in the living room) and cosmopolitan design just goes to prove that mountains and sophistication are only apparent contradictions.
