Houses
Apartments and private houses, from the first plan to the last switch. We re-plan as readily as we decorate.
Société à responsabilité limitée · Lausanne
Rooms with a longer memory.
Betty SARL is an interior architecture practice. We design private houses, small hotels, and rooms for art. The work is drawn, specified, and stayed with until the building is finished. Decoration is the last decision, never the first.
Study · the open roomLausanne practice
Few projects. Fully drawn.
We take on a small number of commissions at a time. A house. An inn of eight rooms. A gallery that still has to work on a Monday morning. The practice is in Lausanne. The sites are in Switzerland and, when the project asks for it, just across the border.
Visits to the atelier are by appointment. The first conversation is usually a letter: the building, the people who will use it, and what must not be lost.
Small hotels
Inns and houses with a handful of rooms, where a guest should feel expected rather than processed.
Rooms for art
Galleries and private rooms for objects. Light that does not compete with what it is there to show.
Material & site
Stone, timber, plaster, textile — written down so a contractor can price it and a client can still read it. We stay through the build.
Four movements
Survey
We measure what is there, including how the household actually moves on an ordinary day.
Composition
Plans, a material direction, and a cost conversation before the details multiply.
Specification
Drawings a builder can price. A set a client can still hold without a translator.
Site
Regular visits until the work matches the drawing, or the drawing is honestly changed.
“They took things out until the house felt as if it had always been that way.”
New commissions
Begin with a letter.
Tell us the building, who it is for, and whether you are at the start or already in a design. We reply within five working days. If we cannot take the work, we say so plainly.
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Lausanne, Switzerland