The Alpina Gstaad?s main building and gardens, which opened in 2012. © The Alpina Gstaad
Artistic, playful and utterly spoiling, The Alpina Gstaad may just be the best hotel anywhere in Europe. So why don?t you know about it"
A contemporary jazz duo is singing and playing its heart out. Your champagne bottle is emptying steadily as you look out from your sofa at the array of contemporary art around you, and the rolling mountains in the distance. It?s time for Japanese, and you and your companions wander over, just a few metres, into a different world into Megu. This is Switzerland?s highest-rated Asian restaurant, a Michelin-starred area decorated by blonde Alpine wood, antique kimonos and slatted wooden partitions.
Follow LUX on Instagram: luxthemagazine The vibe is lively but not raucous, stylish but not gaudy, expensive but not stuffy. Everywhere at the Alpina has a contemporary mountain chic laced with a global sensibility, a generosity of spirit and space, and a sense of future.
Dritte Tier by Thomas Schütte, part of the hotel?s extensive collection of contemporary art. © The Alpina Gstaad
The Alpina in, or to be precise, above Gstaad, is the one example of a European resort hotel that surpasses its surroundings. Some of the great legacy hotels of Europe have been defined by the locations they sit in and need to live with the legacy. Others feel as if they might have been transported from any exotic location in the world.
The hotel?s Japanese restaurant Megu. ...