Lavaux has been included as a "cultural landscape" on UNESCO's World Heritage List since 2007. While its 10,000 terraces and incredible birds-eye view of the lake are truly captivating, it is the close relationship between people and their environment that makes this location unique. It is home to a regional knowledge that is handed down from generation to generation.
It is my intention to create a beautiful slope, with the right exposure and the right incline, and I will place the water table at the bottom so that it will benefit from two suns, so that the sun – which elsewhere only comes from above – will here come from above and below...
C.-F. Ramuz
First of all we put it in crates... put it all in these crates and we then had toput the crates on top of each other... Instead of a slope, it became a construction, a tower, the front of a fortress…
C.-F. Ramuz