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  Project Title

  Alpine Retreat

• 
  Winning Firm
  
  

  Galuchat

• 
  Lead Designer
  
  

  Marie-Noelle Swiderski

• 
  Awarded
  
  WINNER, INTERIOR DESIGN, Residential, Single

• Project Location
  Chatel, France
• Project Status
  Completed
• Completion Date
  October, 2019
• Client
  Private
• General Contractor
  Various


• Interior Design Firm
• Interior Design Firm / Studio
  Galuchat
• Lead Interior Designer(s)
  Marie-Noelle Swiderski
• About the interior design firm
  An interior design professional since 1993, Marie-Noëlle Swiderski started her international design career as an intern at Andrée Putman’s Ecart studio in Paris. In 2006, Marie-Noëlle moved to Dubai to launch her first design studio - 6 years culminating in her being ranked 9th Most Influential Designer in the Middle East on CID's Top 50 Power List in 2012. A BIID Full Member, Marie-Noëlle based GALUCHAT in London where she works on varied exclusive international residential projects.

The property is a two-storey chalet, perched atop a multi-storey building. Despite it being built within a brand new development, it was essential for the clients and myself to ensure the property felt and looked vernacular yet contemporary and elegant. We revisited the developer’s space planning of the unit entirely and thoughtfully specified materials and details inscribing it in the long alpine residence tradition, revisited. Our focus was on natural, local, sustainable materials and traditional methods and craftsmanship to create easily maintained functional, elegant, comfort and style.