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dwellings The exterior retains its centuries-old shingles (left). Original wood paneling envelops the stübli (above), a small, cozy room Tuckey decorated with a vintage cocktail chair from Poland, IKEA beanbags, architectural monographs, and a family heirloom rug. One of the daughters’ rooms (opposite) has a Danish rosewood bed and side table from Modernistiks. Tuckey found the 1970s red enameland-chrome lamp at Golborne Road market in London. Double windows help keep the Alpine winter chill at bay. W When British architectural designer Jonathan Tuckey was hired for a project in Andermatt, Switzerland, he didn’t expect he’d end up moving his family from the hurly-burly of London to a serene Alpine village surrounded by nature’s marvels. Such a bold change of pace—he commuted four days a week from Andermatt to London to run his design studio— reflects the joy in contrasts that informs and energizes his award-winning designs. Applying the term “fixer” to Tuckey is an understatement, given his reputation for poetic approaches to structures. In cases of derelict buildings, whose most recent inhabitants may have been pigeons, he says, “I see our job as being mediator between the client’s aspirations and the building’s aspirations.” So when he and his wife, Annabel, found an appealing stone-and-timber house dating back more than three centuries in the historic center of the village, they were prepared to honor its simple architectural style. Nicknamed Halbhaus, or “Half House” (the other half was demolished to create a parking lot decades earlier), the three-story structure was 969 square feet. Like other houses of the era, its ceilings were low, its rooms were dark, and corridors were nonexistent. The challenge was to give it generosity of height and light while preserving its 17th-century character. Among Tuckey’s credos is that every project must include rooms of contrasting proportions. “Curling up on a winter’s night, or a night when you’re feeling gloomy or don’t want to see the outside world, that happens in a small space. A party, a wedding feast, or an optimistic day happens in a big space. Houses need those scale shifts to accommodate our moods and our day-to-day rhythms.” A snug space already existed in the form of a stübli, a dark, traditional Alpine room, warmed by a fireplace. “They tend to be rooms that drop off the radar in modern houses because everybody likes everything to be light, bright, and airy,” Tuckey notes. In his own home, which he and Annabel share with their two daughters, he preserved the larch shingle paneling, along with numerous artifacts that belonged to the previous owners. An artfully placed mirror on the ceiling gives one corner a sense of infinite height, an homage to the legendary British architect Sir John Soane. While playing with proportion is a timeless architectural strategy, Tuckey acknowledges the difficulty of making room for a big space in a small project. 92 NOVEMBER <strong>2015</strong> DWELL
“ The Swiss have a tradition of using rich materials. We wanted to retain that spirit.” —Jonathan Tuckey, designer and resident
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