{"echo_id":"a1b2c3d4-e5f6-4789-a012-3456789abcde","kind":"place","canonical_name":"Vevey","aliases":["Vevey VD","Vevey, Switzerland","Vivis","Vevey-on-Lake-Geneva","Vevey, Vaud","Vevey (Lac Léman)"],"summary":"Vevey is a historic lakeside town in the Canton of Vaud, Switzerland, on the northern shore of Lake Geneva (Lac Léman). In the 17th–18th centuries it was a regional centre of craft production, including pewter workshops that supplied everyday and ceremonial tableware to households along the lake. Master pewterer Pierre-André Utin (1688–1771) worked here; his standing-lion touchmark marks pieces still held in museums and private collections. Place Echo for the Utin pewter buildout — origin_place bond target for the Vevey plate Relic, participant on upstream Weaves (Utin Touchmark · Vevey Plate; Vevey · Lake Geneva Pewter), and geographic foothold for material-culture research on Lac Léman pewter.\n\nBossard (Bd. II) notes Utin/Vevey productivity in pewter as pressing the Lausanne trade. No Utin workshop street address is given.","years":"c. 1000–present","place_hint":"Vaud, Switzerland — northern shore of Lake Geneva (Lac Léman)","tags":["featured","historical","place","switzerland","vaud","lake-geneva","pewter-centre","material-culture","bossard","sourced"],"verified":false,"public_publish":true,"primary_image_url":"https://media-vayati.s3.us-east-va.io.cloud.ovh.us/echoes/visages/a1b2c3d4-e5f6-4789-a012-3456789abcde/1801aaa781eab5fc54ac.jpg","primary_image_type":"upload","is_placeholder":false,"image_is_placeholder":false,"created_at":"2026-08-10T12:01:57.495Z","updated_at":"2026-08-20T01:10:57.338Z"}