RENOVATION MEMORIES

Some history

 

The house was originally built in 1870 by Italian architects during the reconstruction of Lavin after the second village fire in 1869. It was first a large farmhouse until it was used during the construction of the Rhaetian Railway at the turn of the century as a hotel and restaurant “Steinbock”. Then it became the farmhouse again and in the former stable, where today guitars are created, lived once coys, horses, sheep, goats and chickens all together! Then it was used as a residential building and on the bottom floor there was a village laundry, a post office and even a Raiffeisen Bank branch at some point! Today, right next to the Plazza Gronda, there is our Bike Shop along with our guitar and furniture workshop!
Pictures and objects from former times …

That’s what it looked like when we came to Lavin in 2000. The house was renovated once in the 50s.

Shortly after the scaffolding was gone in 2011