Twelve years, a hundred kilometres and a temperate climate lie between The “Maison Blanche” and the Villa “Le Lac”. The removal from La Chaux-de-Fonds to Corseaux was enlivened by a stay at the “Les Châbles” chalet above Vevey.
This small detached house, designed for Le Corbusier’s parents, was built in 1923-24 from plans drawn up by Le Corbusier and by his cousin, Pierre Jeanneret fully illustrate the ideas for which their authors were already renowned at that time. The Villa “Le Lac” foreshadows three of the “five points for a new architecture”: the use of the roof as a sun deck or garden, the open plan and the ribbon window. Truly a “machine for living”, it illustrates the concerns that Le Corbusier had expressed in his first works, and which had ensured the success of his villas built from the 1920s onwards.