Country treasure: send the Antiques road show to this home in the tiny Geneva wine village of Russin (population of 400) and you'd keep the experts busy for days. But no value can be put on the spirit of rural tradition that Louise Dussoix seeks to keep alive.

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Country treasure: send the Antiques road show to this home in the tiny Geneva wine village of Russin (population of 400) and you'd keep the experts busy for days. But no value can be put on the spirit of rural tradition that Louise Dussoix seeks to keep alive.

Despite rebuilding, following a 19th century fire and successive sloughing off over generations of farm pursuits (there are no longer animals to be stabled, and the place where grapes were pressed is now an orangerie), Mme Dussoix's gentrified farm still offers an excellent example of how comprehensively multi-purpose a traditional Geneva village farm is, tightly organised around a single building.

Not at all typical, however, is that Louise Dussoix has kept--and displays--as mu...

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