Splendid architect's villa with lake view
CH , 1223 Cologny
Last checked 47 minutes ago 19 days on the market
At a glance
Description
It's a beautiful house that gently slopes down the hills of Cologny facing Lake Geneva, the most elegant neighborhood of Geneva. The villa "Les Ailes", inspired by Le Corbusier, was built in 1932 by Louis Vincent and Jean-Jacques Honegger. It is composed of three "parallelepipeds" embedded and offset in order to use the slope of the land to the best and create terraces to highlight its major asset: the view. A breathtaking view of the sparkling waters of Lake Geneva. Important renovation work has been carried out to give new life to this small jewel (listed) of modernist architecture from the 30s. The pool has been set up on the large terrace overlooking the grounds, which is equipped with a "sunscreen wall" in the style of a true solarium. A monumental staircase descends to the lower garden, adorned with a fountain and a sculpture (a "winged lion"); it allows, among other things, access to the terrace and reception areas without passing through the interior of the house. The original hues of the facades (coated with "rustic" plaster) have been rediscovered thanks to chromatic research. A complex process: indeed, the choice of these colors had been entrusted to the painter (Swiss) Georges Aubert, whose proximity to Le Corbusier had led him to become interested in architectural polychromy.
