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Memoirs of a Mansion

by Phyllis Pritchett De Martini

A Swiss villa tells its history

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A Swiss villa tells its history

Narrated by the Villa St. Pierre itself, the book begins with its conception on an architect’s drafting board in Fribourg and its appearance in 1912, in a prosperous district near a medieval town on Lake Neuchâtel. The mansion’s first-person perspective frames its life as a way into the history of a particular building and its surroundings. With architecture and general history as its subjects, the account connects the design of a home to the place and period in which it came into being.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in architecture and the histories of individual buildings.
  • Readers curious about early-20th-century Switzerland and the Lake Neuchâtel region.
  • Readers who enjoy historical accounts narrated from an unusual perspective.

Themes

Architecture and designA building’s historyEarly-20th-century SwitzerlandPlace and memory

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Book overview

Although it may shock you, I was conceived on a drafting board. It happened on a rainy day in the office of my architect, Monsieur Ernest Devolz, in the city of Fribourg in Switzerland. The name I was given at birth was The Villa St.Pierre, and I was destined to have an interesting life.I appeared in the peaceful and prosperous year of 1912, in a chic faubourg outside the ramparts of a medieval town on Lake Neuch
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