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Take a leap into our seasonal special issue with the latest ski resilience rankings of prime resorts, a look back at a master of Alpine Modernism, plus chalet style from chic fireplaces to building your
...Bought in a rundown state for €11mn 16 years ago, millions have since been spent on the cluster of wood and stone buildings, which date back to 1637....
...If this sounds a little extreme as an interpretation (it isn’t as if others hadn’t reassembled buildings before him), just look at the way he places Alpine lodges on the rooftops of Modernist towers....
...At its height, Signa sat atop a sprawling empire of luxury buildings and addresses in Europe and America including New York’s Chrysler Building, London’s Selfridges and Berlin’s KaDeWe....
...The menu safely checks the standards of quality, if rather unimaginative, modern cuisine: venison fillet with truffle mash; the ubiquitous Alpine trout fillet and so on....
...The Estebans, a well-known family in reed boat-building, made perfect partners....
...“We learnt from that: never assume you’re going to win; keep building better and better medicine.”...
...Average temperatures in Alpine regions have risen almost 2C from pre-industrial levels, the Research Center for Alpine Ecosystems estimated, well above the long-term global figure of at least 1.1C....
...This is Kaufmann’s first collaborative venture — but she has been harnessing the centuries-old knowledge of Alpine plants to create efficacious, science-backed formulas for the past 20 years....
...Now winter tourism was building on its small-town charm and varied, high-altitude terrain....
...Although it’s got an old town with more charm, the similarly utilitarian-style buildings of Les Deux Alpes (also known as Les 2 Alpes) are getting a makeover....
...The hotel is both traditional and deeply contemporary: the fanciful fin-de-siècle towers of the original building rise, crown-like, from the forest of the Zürichberg hill above the city, but, as you approach...
...Signa Holding, which sat atop a property portfolio that included Selfridges in London, KaDeWe in Berlin and the Chrysler Building in New York, filed for insolvency last week, leaving creditors trying to...
...Alpine folklore and humour are recurring themes in Vital’s sculpture and are equally present at Tarasp....
...Building large, grand homes in Aspen has just become a lot more difficult....
...From the top of the Allmendhubel funicular — built in 1912 primarily to serve the village’s bobsleigh run — it’s a leisurely, tree-lined descent to Mürren’s tidy cluster of cliff-edge buildings....
...Skis and equipment are easy to rent at the top from Sportshop Wachter, in the gondola lift building....
...What A 110 sq m renovated apartment with two bedrooms and two bathrooms, in a nine-storey building with a concierge....
...Bring in the New Year with a stay in town at the Witchery – an atmospheric cluster of historic buildings-turned-hotel at the gates of Edinburgh Castle dating to 1595 (from £475, thewitchery.com), or the...
...Some Alpine resorts, such as Les Menuires in France’s Three Valleys, are undergoing “prettification”, covering new-build facades in traditional materials and building uniform sloping roofs....
...It consisted of acquiring flats in an old building in Courchevel from various private owners, with the view to sell them later to a developer once the entire building was bought out,” he said....
...“He likes building stories. He likes building brands. He likes building companies,” Levy said....
...Having worked with Barnes in her smokery, Jones later returned to help keep her knowledge alive by designing and building “The Keep”, a learning space for Sally to teach her method and impart the ethics...
...DJing duties fall to the bartenders, when they’re not mixing Alpine Vespers or Manzanilla Martinis....
...Much of it is brand new; an almost $300mn expansion that opened in 2022 has more than doubled its size, with airy new buildings and training kitchens that would be the envy of any chef....
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