The Vineyard

Repairing what was once lost.

The Vineyard

Le Bout de la Cave

Perched at the edge of a forgotten hamlet, Le Bout de la Cave is a study in restraint and renewal. What was once a crumbling agricultural outbuilding has been reimagined as a dwelling of stillness and light, its language reduced to the essential where stone, lime and timber speak without decoration.

Every gesture within the project honours the building’s original structure. Walls retain their imperfections, thresholds are rebuilt in solid oak, and light is guided through deep reveals that hold both shadow and air. The intervention is contemporary but deferential, a series of insertions that belong as much to the place as to the present moment.

This is architecture as atmosphere rather than statement, a place for slow living, for quiet work, for noticing the changing light across the day. The architecture does not announce itself, it simply allows the old house to breathe again.

Le bout de la cave

View through a dark corridor into a brick-walled room with a spiral staircase illuminated from above.
Outdoor patio with wooden table and chairs, brick wall of house with large windows, and view of green trees and landscape in the background.
Front facade of a stone and brick building with multiple windows and a large arched glass entrance door, small tree in front
Architectural floor plan of a house with outdoor area including a tennis court, surrounded by trees.
A backyard swimming pool with lounge chairs at sunset, surrounded by trees and mountains in the distance.
Interior of a rustic dining room with a large wooden table, pendant lights, brick and stone wall, and large windows with a view of outdoor patio furniture
Close-up of a modern white pendant light with perforated design, hanging above a bed with dark green pillows in a warmly lit bedroom.