Crafted by the Alps: Six Hotels Redefining Swiss Luxury

In Switzerland, luxury doesn’t shout.

It moves quietly - through light, silence and time.

For our Switzerland Edition - “Crafted by the Alps: Redefining Swiss Luxury Through Design and Sustainability” - we travelled through a country where architecture and hospitality have learned to listen to the landscape instead of competing with it.

Each of the six hotels in this edition tells a different story of how design, sustainability and atmosphere can live together:

7132 Hotel, Vals – Local stone, thermal water and Peter Zumthor’s legendary baths turn Vals into a living essay on geology and light. This is luxury as immersion in a valley’s memory.

Six Senses Crans-Montana – Renewable energy, biophilic design and deeply intuitive service make sustainability feel like culture, not campaign. Here, architecture becomes a form of care.

LeCrans Hotel & Spa – Just 16 rooms, but enormous emotional depth. The Alps are not a panorama; they’re a constant presence shaping every interior and every view.

Grace La Margna, St. Moritz – A 1906 building reborn for a new generation. Heritage and contemporary calm meet in a hotel that feels both grand and unexpectedly fresh.

Boutique Hotel Glacier, Grindelwald – A contemporary refuge at the foot of the Eiger’s north face, where every window and whirlpool quietly frames the mountain as a living sculpture.

Villa Honegg – High above Lake Lucerne, 25 rooms and an iconic infinity pool distill Swiss quiet luxury into its purest form: warmth, stillness and a horizon of sky and water.

Together, these properties sketch a new definition of Swiss luxury:

coherent, sustainable, deeply human.

They prove that high-end hospitality can protect landscapes, honour materials and still deliver unforgettable experiences - whether through geothermal energy, thin-profile surfaces, low-impact engineering or simply the courage to keep things small, precise and sincere.

This edition is our way of saying that the future of luxury will belong to places like these:

hotels that feel less like escapes, and more like carefully crafted ways of returning to yourself.

Explore the full Switzerland Edition “Crafted by the Alps” on THECORE DESIGN.