Swiss househunting question  

Why Not ?
I think the very best interiors are juxtapostions of styles, not period reproductions.
Sounds perfect!

When it comes to good design
good stuff looks good in each nice house or building.
I've seen high quality French Provencial furniture in a modern house and it looks just as fine as modern furniture will look in that winery.
There's plenty of American Victorian house in New York, Chicago and San Francisco that has a totally modern look inside, for goodness sake!

The interior sounds completely dreamy,
and perfect for modern furnishings.
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OR
just splash out on this..
http://www.trendir.com/house-design/contemporary-swiss-chalet-by-k.html

Riki your furniture will ...
Riki your furniture will look good in any place
after you finish it and make it your own,
I am sure it will have a good look, I.E.... new york lofts, they all were crappy looking till the furniture goes in.

I will just do it
and thanks everyone for your encouragement. WHC, that picture that you posted looks uncannily like the winery that we are looking at and look how gorgeous it looks furnished that way! Barry, we are also looking at an apartment in a 1920's building that smacks of Victorian, so your comments are spot on.
As a matter of fact, that particular 1920's apartment is owned by a very old gentleman who is moving into an "assisted living" arrangement. In his living room, he has an original Le Corbusier LC3 with the pony skin, two Le Corbusier black leather club chairs and a Le Corbusier black leather and chrome love seat. He is in his dotage and my husband and I will be negotiating rents with his son. How dastardly would it be to offer the son some money for those 4 pieces? What do you think would be a fair price?
Here is a picture of the outside of the apartment building.

Not dastardly, at all.
Make the son an offer for the furniture. Just don't seem "too" interested.

I will be
the epitomy of cool. I will be an iceberg. Do you think 3000 Swiss franc is good/fair or insulting?

Sounds like
a fair offer to me, Riki.
Good Luck !

Sorry
my American friends, that is around 2800 USD for those four Le Corbusier vintage pieces. Remember, he was Swiss, so there is quite alot of his stuff available around here.
Jeez, I hope the son is not reading this!

Also
for my American friends, they are absolutely obsessed with Poul Kjaerholm over here. (I'm probably not even spelling that right). Just like we are with Eames or Nelson at home. I mean it is outrageous. If you own anything by him, sell it on ebay.ch or ebay.de. It's craziness!

That's about $2,500, right?
I'd start lower-- maybe you can get them for less.
For all you know, the son may have intended to have the furniture carted off to the dump (do they even have dumps, in Switzerland?).
On the other hand, he may know how desirable the pieces are, refuse the paltry offer, and assume you're a design ignoramus. Hardly the end of the world. You can always offer more.

WHC
Today, the Swiss franc was about 90 cents on the dollar, so I think 3000 francs would be about 2800 US dollars, but I could be wrong because I suck at math. We are returning to see the apartment as well as the old winery on Monday, so I will let everyone know what we decide on and I have purchased many extra batteries for my camera so I am now well prepared.
Cheers, Riki, the Swiss Miss
P.S. Have you all noticed that I am now speaking in "Yoda Speak" because I have been speaking French for about 10 days now and they are completely messed up in their word order.:)

If you need a middle-aged American Au Pair/ charwoman
I hereby toss my hat into the ring.