The Villa Maund was a hunting lodge built on a spur of the Alps by the English banker and mountaineer Sir John Oakley Maund, one of the first to climb the east summit of the high Les Droites in the Mont Blanc massif. After his death in 1902, it passed into the possession of his daughter Zoe Désirée Maund throughout the whole property, against the will of her mother Zoe Gertraud Maund, and was sold on 17 November 1931 to the Englishman Martin Holt for 750 pounds.