Granja - 111 (La Recorne/La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel - 1617)

Experiencia fantástica: Ми там побачили як плетуть мереживо. Про те, що буде майстер клас ми прочитали. Магія роботи рук майстрині нас зачарувала. Ми довго дивились. Роботи майстрині можна придбати, вони були неймовірними!

Experiencia fantástica: The large expanses of wall give this massive building the forbidding aspect of a castle. Yet the arched doorway and the gothic window embrasures recall elegant palaces. Both have their reason: the house had to withstand the caprices of nature. Every additional opening formed a weak point in the skin of the house. The High Jura climate is damp and cold, the winters are raw and snowy. Nevertheless, the building gives the impression of a prosperous farmstead. When reconstructing the house in 1982–1985, traces on the building helped to determine the likely original state of the house; simultaneously we tried to recreate the ideal of a typical multipurpose building of the High Jura. People, animals and storerooms lie under a single roof. The main door leads into an anteroom and from there to stalls on the left. The barn for winter feed lies above: instead of having to laboriously heave the hay up, it was transported on a ramp to the rear entry. The threshing floor lies above the anteroom and a long corridor. The grain was threshed here and wagons stored. In their respective corners there were a grain storeroom and a room for a farmhand, both no more than oversize wooden crates. The huge chimney on the roof stands out – its chimney cover can be closed by a long linkage of iron bars. From within the kitchen we can peer into the boarded chimney over the central open hearth, an identifying feature of High Jura farmhouses. The dimensions of the chimney are also visible from the threshing floor. It gathered the smoke from three different hearths: the open cooking fire, the adjacent baking oven and the firing door of the tiled heating stove.