Kudos to the early 20th-century avant-garde, who commissioned architectural marvels from their heroes in spectacular locations, and ensured they would survive well beyond their time. This Bauhaus icon, on a slope overlooking Lake Geneva, is the latest such gem to come to market, remarkably preserved in its original state.

Villa Kenwin was designed in the early 1930s by Alexandre Ferenczy and Hermann Henselmann for film director Kenneth Macpherson and writer Annie Winifred Ellerman (aka Bryher), who used it to entertain their artistic friends in the splendid Swiss surrounds. It follows a strict geometric silhouette of rectilinear and curvilinear lines, a classic example of function dictating form. A semicircular turret houses the main staircase, contrasting with the parallelepiped living spaces. The Bauhaus property was restored and updated in 1987 by architect Giovanni Pezzoli, resulting in its designation as a Swiss ‘property of national importance’.

The six-bedroom Swiss property is currently listed with Architecture de Collection for CHF 5.7m and expands over four levels or 550 sq m. From the lower-ground main entrance, dressed in blues, visitors climb to a skylit kitchen and living room with a five-metre ceiling and 15-metre bay window framing the lake view. A mezzanine balcony overlooks the living space, curved in metal like a ship’s deck, and leads to an office and, additional study room. On the top floor, six bedrooms and three bathrooms branch off the U-shaped corridor.

The owners worked closely with Ferenczy and Henselmann on the interior design, importing paint, linoleum, prefab furnishings and lamps from Berlin. The living room furniture echoes the work of Charlotte Perriand, particularly her LC4 chaise longue. And the modernist aesthetic upstairs includes Bauhaus lighting and armchairs inspired, again, by Perriand.

There are terraces throughout, including one on the roof, which offer expansive views of the Swiss property’s 5,241 sq m of landscaped grounds, and the Vaud Riviera’s dramatic mountains and water.

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