{"id":223783,"date":"2024-03-04T15:37:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T13:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/?p=223783"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T14:14:07","slug":"between-the-alps-and-the-himalayas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/between-the-alps-and-the-himalayas\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the Alps and the Himalayas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioned to design a chalet for a family of four in the Alpine region of Haute-Savoie in France, design studio &#8220;A Work of Substance&#8221; drew inspiration from both Alpine architecture and the native Buddhist culture of the Himalayas.<\/p>\n<p>While the exterior of the three-story building has an aura of traditional alpine chalets, with a stone-built ground floor, pine-planked floors and a roof clad in pine wood shingles, its interiors channel the art and spirituality of Tibetan Buddhism. Through a rich tapestry of recycled materials, we notice handmade details and antiques.<\/p>\n<p>Taking its name from the word for snow in the regional Savoy dialect, Chalet N\u00ea is a place that embodies the spirit of the Alps, especially during the snowy winter months.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-223778 img-responsive img-center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/23_chalet_ne_work_of_substance_harold_de_puymorin_yatzer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/23_chalet_ne_work_of_substance_harold_de_puymorin_yatzer.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/23_chalet_ne_work_of_substance_harold_de_puymorin_yatzer-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/23_chalet_ne_work_of_substance_harold_de_puymorin_yatzer-1024x576.jpg 1024w, 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src=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02_chalet_ne_work_of_substance_harold_de_puymorin_yatzer-1286x697-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1286\" height=\"697\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02_chalet_ne_work_of_substance_harold_de_puymorin_yatzer-1286x697-1.jpg 1286w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02_chalet_ne_work_of_substance_harold_de_puymorin_yatzer-1286x697-1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02_chalet_ne_work_of_substance_harold_de_puymorin_yatzer-1286x697-1-1024x555.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02_chalet_ne_work_of_substance_harold_de_puymorin_yatzer-1286x697-1-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/02_chalet_ne_work_of_substance_harold_de_puymorin_yatzer-1286x697-1-850x460.jpg 850w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1286px) 100vw, 1286px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Photography Harold de Puymorin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioned to design a chalet for a family of four in the Alpine region of Haute-Savoie in France, design studio &#8220;A Work of Substance&#8221; drew inspiration from both Alpine architecture and the native Buddhist culture of the Himalayas. While the exterior of the three-story building has an aura of traditional alpine chalets, with a stone-built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":245071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18532,18542,18563],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel-en","category-style-en","category-women-we-love-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223783"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245076,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223783\/revisions\/245076"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mancodestyle.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}