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Very old log-walled Alpine room with a small window and a wooden chest
Wolfgang Sauber / Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 3.0 (license). View the source record

Wall Paneling & Wainscoting · Alpine Chalet

Rhaetian Stube from the Tschaggen Farm, South Tyrolean Folklore Museum, Dietenheim

A very early Rhaetian Stube from the Tschaggen farm in St. Martin in Passeier, South Tyrol, displayed at the folklore museum in Dietenheim, with log walls and a wooden chest.

Design characteristics

This interior shows Alpine wood construction at its oldest: horizontal log walls, a small window and a single wooden chest. It is the ancestor of every later paneled Stube. For a modern mountain home, the material honesty is the lesson. Wide horizontal boards or log-profile paneling can recreate the feeling without building in logs.

Classification

Style
Alpine Chalet
Category
Wall Paneling & Wainscoting
Material
Larch
Motifs
Log wall, Board and batten
Photograph
2007
Photographer
Wolfgang Sauber
Evidence
Photograph of a documented interior or object
Source
Wikimedia Commons

Architectural context

Wood-lined Stuben, carved and painted pine, and benches built into the walls. Tyrol, Switzerland and Bavaria · vernacular, 1300s onward.

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