Badrutt?s Palace overlooking Lake St Moritz
St Moritz is well known as the winter playground of Europe?s rich and aristocratic. But don?t dismiss the resort, and especially its venerable and truly grand hotel Badrutt?s Palace, as a summer destination
One single word: Badrutt?s. Among a certain crowd, it conjures up associations: dancing in King?s Club after a long day?s skiing and après-skiing; bumping into billionaires in their Moncler in the wood-panelled corridors; and probably the most desirable (in a conventional way) New Year?s Eve gala in the world. (It may also whip up associations of bedrooms looking out over the frozen lake, though that would mean you don?t actually own a place of your own to winter in St Moritz ? tsk.)
Follow LUX on Instagram: luxthemagazine But there?s another Badrutt?s, in another St Moritz. They may be geographically identical, but the summertime town, and Palace, are a different world, and perhaps not yet as well discovered.
Our suite (declaration: we don?t own a place in St Moritz) opened out onto a balcony terrace on which we strolled on the first night, gazing across the lake, up to the mountains beyond, and along the broad Engadine valley in both directions. In summer on the mountains, myriad textures and colours replace winter?s uniform white and brown of snow and rock. A deep-green forest around the grey-blue lake; emerald meadows; high pasture the colour of a dying weeping willow; peak rockscapes in black and grey, slashed by snow, sti...