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The building of the hotel was completed without any debt, having been funded by the construction of three chalets and 11 apartments on the site. [1] Two of the chalets were sold to the Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev, at a price reported to be $130 million each. [2] It was the first luxury hotel to open in Gstaad for 100 years. [3]
Chalet Eugenia's stone kitchen & original wood fired oven. The chalet's interior design dates from the 1950s, and has been largely retained. [7] [8] [9] The drawing room has a central pillared stone log fireplace leading onto an oak beamed and paneled dining room. The second dining room is equipped with the original wood fired oven.
A typical chalet in the Swiss Alps. A chalet (pronounced / ˈ ʃ æ l eɪ / SHAL-ay in British English; in American English usually / ʃ æ ˈ l eɪ / shal-AY), also called Swiss chalet, is a type of building or house, typical of the Alpine region in Europe.
The list includes some, but by far not all huts in the seven Alpine countries of Germany, France, Italy, Liechtenstein, Austria, Switzerland and Slovenia. These accommodations are also called Rifugio, in Italy, and Refuge in France and French-speaking Switzerland. In Slovenia they are called Dom or Koča.
The Gstaad Palace was built in a Swiss chalet style on a hill overlooking the town of Gstaad. [8] It has guest rooms and suites, [11] restaurants, [12] a basement nightclub (GreenGo), a spa, [8] a traditional alpine hut (Walig Hut), indoor and outdoor pools, and numerous other amenities. [13]
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He designed the Chalet du Mont d'Arbois, the first snow-mountain chalet of modern times. [5] [6] In 1963, Baron Edmond de Rothschild (1926-1997), son of Noémie de Rothschild, took over the management of the family properties in Megève. [7] He bought the neighboring chalets and transformed the Chalet du Mont d'Arbois into a hotel. [2] [8]