{"id":59558,"date":"2026-05-04T03:55:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/59558\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T03:55:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T03:55:18","slug":"tour-this-chalet-in-the-french-alps-imbued-with-warmth-and-a-contemporary-vision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/59558\/","title":{"rendered":"Tour this chalet in the French Alps imbued with warmth and a contemporary vision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With a clear goal of not creating a \u201cfake old style\u201d, Haddou and Dufourcq started by completely rethinking the layout of the home. Originally, the chalet only had two bedrooms, with a main suite that occupied the entire top floor, and poorly designed living spaces\u2014including a tiny living room and a kitchen that was on a different level to the dining room. \u201cMeals had to be sent up via a dumbwaiter!\u201d laughs Dufourcq. \u201cNothing was practical or cohesive.\u201d Their brief included three ensuites, a spa area, a large kitchen, and of course, a living and dining area. \u201cThe biggest challenge was completely rethinking the layout, the spatial organisation, and the circulation: meeting the brief and creating coherent spaces with a sense of harmony,\u201d says Haddou.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With a clear goal of not creating a \u201cfake old style\u201d, Haddou and Dufourcq started by completely rethinking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59559,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,33088,3644],"class_list":{"0":"post-59558","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-alps","8":"tag-alps","9":"tag-chalet","10":"tag-courchevel"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116514293303710299","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59558\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}