“Around fifty chalets are still intact”
According to the association of Friends Henry Jacques Le Meilleur, “around fifty chalets are still intact”. Its president, Antoine Pioger, was “born in a “Le Same”…” If he created the association in 2020, it is to promote this endangered heritage, threatened with demolition or bling-bling transformation “into fake Savoyard chalets, where the only thing that changes is the size of the swimming pool or the garage.
This is the real luxury: not having the same thing as your neighbor. Because all these chalets, numbered, are full of history, they have been through the war, each has its own color shutters. When Benoît Giraud, a surgeon in Lyon, became the owner of Loustalet, built in 1933, he did not instantly fall in love with it. “I first saw the orange boiler down in the middle, the green shutters. I had an idea of the contemporary chalet. And then I realized the potential, the originality, far from the old wood imitation cliché. The house has a soul. Pleasant to live in, we can see the talent of the architect. »
Visionary, The Same: his chalet was already modern a hundred years ago. Nothing was left to chance: viewpoint, attention to detail, limited footprint. The multiplication of windows or bays on the west facade bathes the interior in light, like paintings where the landscape invites itself into the living room. Aware of the heritage, the municipality has made its Local Urban Plan more restrictive regarding exterior works.
