Chasa in the Engadin
An eighteenth-century chasa held in its own hand, repaired room by room.
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Chesa Studio/Alpine real estate/Connecticut country houses
From the Engadin to Litchfield County.
An alpine real estate development and restoration practice working between Samedan and Connecticut. We build, restore, and reposition houses, chalets, and country estates for private homeowners, family offices, and the developers and hoteliers who build to the same standard. Commissions typically run between four and ten million dollars.
The practice/01
A new house outside New Canaan that reads as if it has stood since 1910.
Chesa Studio works between Samedan in the Engadin and Litchfield County in Connecticut. The work runs from a Salisbury Federal with forty years of bad interventions removed, to a new house whose stair, plaster, fieldstone, and proportions look inherited on the first winter.
We handle restoration, new construction, acquisition advisory, interiors, and hospitality positioning, with one hand from the first walk-through to the final hanging. Each commission is treated as a single document: site, fabric, archive, palette, sequence, and stewardship.
Projects/02
Selected work
Greenwich Shingle Style
A new Shingle Style house built to read as inherited from the first winter.
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Hill Rose
1810 Federal on twenty-six acres, restored room by room, with a new wing that reads 1830.
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Cascina sopra il lago
A four-volume Lombard farmhouse on the western shoulder of the Italian lakes, restored over three winters with the original hand kept visible.
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The Upper Engadin
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What we do
Restoration and Stewardship
For the house you have just bought with bones. We read it before we touch it.
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New Construction
Country houses in Connecticut, built to read as inherited by the second winter.
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Wellness and Longevity
The house itself is the longevity instrument. Sleep, air, heat, light, cold, and quiet, built into the fabric.
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Curatorial Interiors
Boiserie, hand-painted paper, plaster, named textile houses, and rooms that hold a collection.
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Development Advisory
Early judgment for developers and hoteliers, before the drawings harden.
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Acquisition Advisory
Read the property before the offer is final.
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Where we work
Engadin, Switzerland
The origin valley. Where the practice learned to read a building before touching it.
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Connecticut
Alpine restoration craft inside a Connecticut envelope. Greenwich, New Canaan, Litchfield County.
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New York & Hudson Valley
Park Avenue rooms paired with a Hudson Valley primary residence, restored to a single standard.
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Anglo-Italian villas in Tuscany and Lombardy, mas and bastide work in Provence.
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Alpine Interiors
Painted timber, limewash, stove culture, textile weight, and mountain light.
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Metal, Fire, Arrival
Brass, copper, stoves, lanterns, hearths, and the first emotional register of welcome.
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Chateau + Salon
Cultivated domestic conversation, patterned rooms, art, seating, and collected time.
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Collected Furniture
Tables, chairs, consoles, banquettes, beds, and pieces that hold ritual.
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Connecticut Domesticity
Federal houses, garden thresholds, Greenwich restraint, Ridgefield calm, and New York proximity.
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The Italian Villa
Cocciopesto, Impruneta cotto, chestnut beams, hand-forged iron, and the Anglo-Italian villa as a working model.
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Call the studio or send a brief. We work with developers, family offices, hoteliers, and private homeowners between Connecticut, New York, Italy, and the Alps.