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Le Grand Chalet de Rossinière
- Type
- House
- Address
- Rossinière, Pays-d’Enhaut
Not open to visitors
One of the largest wooden chalets in Switzerland, built in 1754, in Rossinière, on the panoramic railway line linking Montreux to Gstaad. The painter Balthus spent his last decades there with his wife Setsuko. Private property.
A lunch, and a text by David Bowie
David Bowie goes up to interview Balthus
Rossinière is an hour from Montreux by panoramic train, on the line to Gstaad. It was there that Balthus settled, in the Grand Chalet, an immense wooden building dating from 1754.
David Bowie, who was then living in the canton of Vaud and writing about art for Modern Painters, went up to meet him. The account he brought back, at the table with the painter and his wife Setsuko, is one of the most moving texts he ever wrote — it is told on his own page.
Related artists :David BowieBalthus