Had historical past’s fickle methods performed out in a different way, the Alpine village of Adelboden can be as nicely often known as Gstaad, the place Loro Piana rubs shoulders with Moncler on the excessive road. But after a flurry of fame in the Edwardian period, when Henry Lunn introduced the first package deal group of British skiers right here, it settled into affable obscurity, livened up by the annual World Cup large slalom. One loyal common, although, was Welsh-born Grant Maunder, whose household holidayed right here in the Seventies and ’80s and who repaid the village’s hospitality by opening the Cambrian lodge about 15 years in the past. This is the follow-up, and it’s an altogether extra thought of mission, swerving away from the traditional Alpine clichés in favor of a clubby midcentury look assembled by Dutch-based design studio Nicemakers. Behind the traditional chalet façade, the ground-floor residing area, which flows from breakfast tables to eating room and bar, ripples with texture—bouclé materials right here, Nordic Knots rugs there, loopy paving underfoot—and showcases classic furnishings alongside woodcuts and brutalist sculptures. Easy to think about Tony Curtis right here, resplendent in a roll-neck and skimming a ’60s copy of Esquire. The intention was to make all of it really feel as a lot of a personal residence as attainable, with bedrooms away from lodge litter and a way of relaxed, “just drop by” heat. It’s adults solely and, unusually, absolutely inclusive (from feasts of salmon and mountain cheeses to the old-fashioneds), an idea at which some could balk—till they bear in mind their final restaurant invoice in Switzerland. Maunder refers to The Brecon’s aesthetic as “Swelsh,” and, whenever you’re dallying in the terrace pool, with the flanks of the Bernese Oberland rising operatically above, all of it feels fairly great. From $840. —Rick Jordan