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Heart of Glass

On a gently sloping field in the Swiss canton of Valais, a stone barn stands amid rows of grapevines before a looming mountain peak. Local farmer turned cattle trader Pierre-Joseph Huguet built the barn in 1854 to shelter his herd, and it’s still in the family four generations later, although its use has shifted—from wine production to machinery storage—over the decades.

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