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Haus am Walensee

Homestory

Front view of a 19th-century house with a pitched roof in the mountains
Entrance hall and staircase with a desk from the 1950s
A sofa with several armchairs in front of a huge studio window overlooking greenery
A cat stands at a large glass window overlooking the valley of Lake Walen.
Dining table in a high-ceilinged interior with white pendant lights
Black Eames plywood chair in a white stairwell
Wooden staircase in a late 19th-century house
Lorenz_Cugini_Haus-am-Walensee_015.jpeg
Wood panelled wall with many photo postcards hung on it for inspiration
A large stone studio building from the 19th century surrounded by old trees and a meadow.
Stone façade of a 19th-century house with a black cat in the garden
View of the mountain panorama of Lake Walen
Front view of a 19th-century house with a pitched roof in the mountains
Entrance hall and staircase with a desk from the 1950s
A sofa with several armchairs in front of a huge studio window overlooking greenery
A cat stands at a large glass window overlooking the valley of Lake Walen.
Dining table in a high-ceilinged interior with white pendant lights
Black Eames plywood chair in a white stairwell
Wooden staircase in a late 19th-century house
Lorenz_Cugini_Haus-am-Walensee_015.jpeg
Wood panelled wall with many photo postcards hung on it for inspiration
A large stone studio building from the 19th century surrounded by old trees and a meadow.
Stone façade of a 19th-century house with a black cat in the garden
View of the mountain panorama of Lake Walen

Simone Ott and Reto Caduff lived in California for many years and worked in the media and creative industries. When they returned to Switzerland in search of a new home, they found this gem in the Glarnerland, which the painter Hans Alder once commissioned Rittmeyer + Furrer to build for his family.

Together with journalist Mirko Beetschen from bergdorf, I photographed their new home, which they finally had renovated by Philippe Stuebi Architekten. The story was published in the magazines Ideales Heim and Espaces Contemporains.