High ALTITUDE

A revamped SWISS INN with LUXURY TRIMMINGS is the ultimate ALPINE ESCAPE

TEXT BY GISELA WILLIAMS

I don’t like holidays,” proclaims the French-Moroccan entrepreneur Ramdane Touhami, “but I love the mountains. I just want to go up, up, up!” After selling Officine Universelle Buly, the 19th-century French beauty brand he relaunched with his wife, Victoire de Taillac-Touhami, two years ago, that appears to be the direction Touhami is headed. Since then, he has invested in various enterprises related to high-altitude living, among them the Drei Berge Hotel, a 19-room inn built in 1907 in Switzerland’s Bernese Alps. Touhami purchased the property last year and reopened this past summer, reimagining it with a series of quirky twists. While its red-and-white-chevron shutters are traditional, Touhami needed to get permission from everyone in Mürren (population 450), the tiny village where the inn is located, to paint the exterior pine…

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Harper's Bazaar (Digital) - 1 Issue, December/January 2024

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