Rougemont Interiors | Gstaad
Gstaad My Love: Conscious Select × Rougemont Interiors
Pascale Heuberger grew up between Zurich and Gstaad, trained as a designer in New York, and spent her formative professional years at Brunschwig & Fils — the storied American house that for generations set the standard for exclusive home textiles, trimmings, and furnishings. In 2009, she returned to the Bernese Alps and established Rougemont Interiors in Saanen, just below Gstaad — a studio rooted in the place she came from, shaped by everything she had learned elsewhere.
The result is a practice with a specific and hard-to-replicate sensibility: the precision of American and international design training applied to the particular material traditions of the Swiss Alps. Heuberger describes her philosophy as "cosiness with a modern, international twist" — spare words that contain a full design position.
The Project
Gstaad My Love, completed in 2024, is a chalet on the sunny hills of Gstaad. The project covers interior design, furnishing, and styling — the full scope of how a home is both conceived and inhabited.
The design begins with what Gstaad already offers and asks how to honour it without being consumed by it. Heavy timber beams remain — structural, genuine, of this landscape — but are balanced against tailored detailing that keeps the interior from tipping into nostalgic pastiche. Stone walls are softened through controlled palettes. Architectural lines are sharpened so that ornament never overwhelms structure. The chalet tradition is not erased. It is edited.
Materials were chosen for how they perform over time in an alpine climate and how they read in the particular quality of mountain light — which arrives differently in every season, low and amber in winter, clear and bright in summer. Raw wood, brushed matte rather than lacquered, grounds the interiors. Stone adds permanence. Woven textiles and upholstery introduce softness without visual noise. The palette stays in layered neutrals — warm creams, softened taupes, muted greys — allowing the natural grain of timber and the movement of light to do the decorative work that colour and pattern usually perform.
Rooms are neither theatrical nor mean. Communal spaces feel generous without demanding spectacle. Private rooms feel cocooned within the strength of the structure. Windows frame snow-covered peaks and evergreen slopes without turning them into a backdrop — the landscape is present but never forced. The studio collaborates with skilled artisans on every project, and in Gstaad My Love that collaboration shows in the custom millwork, the precision of cabinetry joinery, and the considered weight of every transition between rooms.
CS Design Values
Material Honesty.Timber, stone, and woven textiles are allowed to express their own weight, grain, and texture — brushed and matte rather than coated, chosen for how they will deepen and patina over decades of alpine life.
Built to Last.The interiors are conceived to evolve with the house — timber deepening in tone, stone gathering subtle patina, textiles softening with use. Longevity through design conviction, not decoration.
Why It's Consciously Selected
Rougemont Interiors works from within an alpine tradition rather than observing it from outside. Pascale Heuberger grew up in this landscape, trained in the wider world, and returned to apply that education to the place she knows best. Gstaad My Love is the result: a mountain home authentic to its setting and quietly contemporary in its execution, proving that in Gstaad, as anywhere, clarity is the luxury.