Meadow House
A single-story modern house behind a knotty cedar screen, at ease in a town that builds colonial.
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Chesa Studio/Alpine real estate/Connecticut country houses
An alpine real estate development and restoration practice working in Connecticut. We build, restore, and reposition houses and country estates for private homeowners, family offices, and the developers and hoteliers who build to the same standard, in a traditional or a modern idiom.
The practice/01
One standard of craft, in any idiom: alpine restoration, traditional, or modern.
Chesa Studio works in New York State, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. The work runs from a New Milford Colonial with forty years of bad interventions removed, to the Meadow House, a cedar-screened modern house. What holds them together is honest materials and the craft to use them, in whatever idiom the house wants, all built to the same hundred-year standard.
We handle restoration, new construction, interiors, and hospitality positioning, with one hand from the first walk-through to the final fabric. Each commission is treated as a single document: site, fabric, archive, palette, sequence, and stewardship.
Now available/Hill Brook
A country place gathered around water.
Two furnished houses, a party barn, pond, brook, mature gardens, and nine acres in Litchfield. Offered as a complete estate or as a two-bedroom cottage residence through one coordinated calendar.
Litchfield, Connecticut / Furnished / By inquiry
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Selected work
An alpine standard
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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, traditional or modern, built to the same hundred-year standard.
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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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Where we work
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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Italy & the Lakes
Anglo-Italian villas in Tuscany and Lombardy, mas and bastide work in Provence.
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From the atlas
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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.