The Brecon raises the bar for up to date chalet stylish

In Swiss resort cities resembling St. Moritz or Gstaad, a standard remark throughout excessive season is that the slopes can really feel like a high-octane vogue present. However in Adelboden, a quiet ski city within the Bernese Alps, roughly two hours from Zurich, the one parading is completed in late June, when native farmers festoon their dairy cows with floral headdresses and globe-sized bells to trot them down the principle road and up a winding path to the alpine meadows the place they’ll graze till the season’s finish.

The Brecon

That stated, Adelboden nonetheless has a agency grip on luxurious, because of the just lately opened The Brecon: a lodge based by the Wales-born Grant Maunder who has been visiting the area for over 40 years and who additionally owns the neighbouring Cambrian Resort. The work of Amsterdam-based agency Nicemakers, The Brecon’s design leans into a recent chalet aesthetic within the communal areas with heat wooden wall panelling, flagstone flooring hand-fitted by an artisan flown in from Wales and the basic wood Swiss eating chairs from the lodge’s earlier occupant, refinished and upholstered in mottled purple boucle cloth.

Every of the 18 rooms and 4 suites are subtly completely different, ranging in dimension from compact doubles to a duplex two-bedroom loft suite. The highest flooring ‘Village’ suite, for example, encompasses an expansive balcony and a sitting space full with an opulent Vitra couch, a hearth and a small writing desk that appears onto a panoramic view of the chic Bernese Alps throughout the valley.

The Brecon has cleverly positioned itself as a year-round vacation spot. In the summertime, friends can discover the area’s huge community of climbing trails or swim within the close by glacial lakes. Within the winter, snowboarding is the principle precedence: Adelboden boasts a formidable variety of runs accessible from a number of gondolas originating from the village.

After a day on the slopes, a spa providing that features massages and reflexology, in addition to a sauna, steam room and heated out of doors pool, is obtainable for mountain-weary legs. Most meals and drinks are included within the room fee, which suggests an à la carte breakfast, a light-weight lunch and a Swiss-inspired dinner, the concise menu for which adjustments day by day, and contains dishes like wild mushroom risotto, rigatoni with tomato and mint, and an array of native cheeses, many produced by the encircling dairy farms’ marching cows.