The best ski hotels in Europe for a chic alpine stay
Alpine grande dames remain bastions of old school glamour, gazing down their long, turreted noses at the frozen lakes, some reluctantly humming a more modern tune, but most dining off stories of winter madcappery and (nearly always) a visit from either Ernest Hemmingway or Sofia Loren, or both. They’re chic, but for the purposes of this article, they’re in their own, rather splendid category. Next up is the reindeer-rugged, Savoyard-style mountain hideaway, where interiors paint an elevated picture of a rustic Alpine lodge with plenty of wood carvings, taxidermy and cowbells. Then, there’s this chic middleground, which actually, it turns out, is quite hard to define. Perhaps it’s the art, the encased flames dancing against the winterscape, the razor-sharp interiors softened with low-slung ...
