The Grand Dame of the Engadine has completed its renovation. The Grand Hotel Kronenhof, one of the cult places in Switzerland founded in 1848, has in fact undergone an important restyling work designed by the French interior designer Pierre-Yves Rochon. The intervention involved 28 rooms, including bedrooms and suites (all conceived as apartments and studios), the entrance; the Play&Smokers Lounge; the spectacular lobby; the fireplace room; the reception hall; the Kronenhof Bar, embellished with shades of red and blue; and four outdoor yoga platforms, located in the large park. The restyling chapter will definitely end with the opening of the presidential suite scheduled for the end of July. “When I start each new project – explains Rochon – I take inspiration from the existing architecture, the characteristics of the landscape, the local traditions and the materials used historically to try to create something that can amaze the guests who have chosen to stay in that hotel and who make him love them even more than before. The job of design is to strive to anticipate the needs of the guest, not to reflect an architect’s ego”. And that’s exactly what happened at the Kronenhof. By Germano D’Acquisto