The Louis-Jeantet Foundation was set up in Geneva in 1982 according to the wish of the Geneva-resident French businessman Louis Jeantet,[1] having been endowed with his fortune upon his death from cancer in 1981.
Inspired from the luxurious Italian houses and built in the early XXth century, the Louis-Jeantet Villa is part of the architectural heritage of the Geneva landscape.
m.[3] In 1904 Aimée Wexel, princess Franceschi, commissioned the so-called « Helios » villa, built in the neo-renaissance style very popular in Italy at the end of the 19th century.
The Domino architects bureau and TER landscape designers oversaw the restoration.The mansion now houses a modern auditorium in the basement, graced by a garden excavated from the rock.
These elements, invisible from the road (route de Florissant), offer a secluded area inspired by Mogol gardens of Rajasthan.