The Swiss Fairytale
Above the Val de Bagnes in Verbier, Experimental Chalet occupies a 1950s building that the Experimental Group reopened as its first Alpine address. The Milanese designer Fabrizio Casiraghi renovated it throughout, reframing chalet warmth through minimalist elegance and retro sophistication — blond wood, deep colour, mid-century furniture, nothing gilded. Its 39 rooms and two suites give onto the mountains; downstairs sit the restaurant St Bernard, a Biologique Recherche spa and an outpost of the group’s Experimental Cocktail Club. Sumptuous but not flashy — the understated counterweight to St Moritz and Courchevel.
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Classic Room
Wrapped in forest greens, muted rusts and warm brass, the Classic Rooms are a cosy antidote to the cold beyond. The palette mirrors the pine-clad slopes outside; inside, a queen-size bed and a shower that warms you from the inside out.
Classic Room
Superior Room
Tucked away on the upper floors, a refuge from the winter outside. Postcard views of snow-capped mountains greet you each morning, the slopes still and silent before the day begins; inside, a king-size bed and a generous soaking tub.
Superior Room
Superior Room Terrace
Step onto your private balcony and take in the Grand Combin rising in all its snow-covered glory. An intimate room with a king-size bed, a soaking tub and an uninterrupted view of Verbier’s winter landscape stretching to the horizon.
Superior Room Terrace
Deluxe Room Terrace
A spacious balcony draped in winter light, opening onto uninterrupted views across the snow-laden Alps — a place to feel the full scale of the mountains. King-size bed and a tub that makes the return from the slopes a true pleasure.
Deluxe Room Terrace
Junior Suite
A suite to linger in before a day spent exploring snow-capped mountains: a cosy living room, a king-size bed and a soaking tub or shower to restore tired muscles. Postcard views over the village and the quiet early-morning slopes.
Junior Suite
Junior Suite Terrace
Terrace doors open onto a winter wonderland of snow-covered peaks and hushed slopes. Inside, a living room offers refuge from the cold, with a king-size bed, a sofa bed and a soaking tub or shower after the mountain.
Junior Suite Terrace
Verbier Suite
Perched at the top of the hotel, with a separate living room and fireplace for warmth after days on the mountain. A soaking tub and a shower inside; outside, a private terrace where the jacuzzi steams against the cold night air.
Verbier Suite
Panorama Suite
From three private terraces the Panorama Suite commands the full sweep of Verbier’s peaks and pistes. A living room with fireplace, a king-size bed, a dressing room and a jacuzzi on the terrace where steam rises into the cold mountain air.
Panorama Suite
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A Biologique Recherche spa with hammam, sauna and hot tub, a ski room at the door, and three bars — the Farm Club among them.
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VERBIER | MAY 2026
Mid-Century Alpine Glamour Meets Parisian Hospitality in Verbier
Verbier sits on a sun-facing shelf at 1,500 metres above the Val de Bagnes, the gateway to the 4 Vallées. Halfway down its main street, in a plain 1950s block that had already been two hotels — the Rhodania, then the Nevaï — the Experimental Group opened its first mountain address in December 2018. The Group’s founders, Olivier Bon, Pierre-Charles Cros and Romée de Goriainoff, were childhood friends from Montpellier who had started with a single cocktail bar on the rue Saint-Sauveur in Paris in 2007; by the time they reached Verbier they had bars and hotels in London, New York and Ibiza, and a clear idea of what an Alpine hotel should not be.
The interiors are by Fabrizio Casiraghi, the Milan-born, Paris-based designer who cut his teeth at Dimorestudio, and they take the mid-century ski hotel as their point of departure. Pistachio panelling and Portuguese tiles greet you at the entrance; the bar, where a lobby would normally be, has a fireplace, an antique antler chandelier and a view of the Grand Combin. In the 39 rooms and suites, dark green wainscoting meets dusty-rose carpet and thick velvet curtains in burnt orange; bedheads carry carved mountain goats, bedside tables are rounded and lacquered, bathrooms are tiled in retro colours, and the telephones are rotary. The minibar holds pre-mixed cocktails and a steel hip flask for the slopes.
The dining room was relaunched in December 2025 as Le St Bernard under Rudy Ballin, who trained with Anne-Sophie Pic in Valence and Paris. The menu is Franco-Swiss and built for sharing — smoked féra from Lake Geneva, trout Grenobloise, Valais cheeses and cured meats, and a chef’s table down the middle of the room — in a space of cream and burgundy, pale wood and candlelight. Below is the Spa by Biologique Recherche, the Group’s first: three treatment rooms, a hammam, a sauna, an ice bath and an outdoor jacuzzi on the terrace, facing the peaks.
And beneath it all is the Farm Club, opened in 1971 by the Italian brothers Serafino and Giuseppe Berardi and for fifty years the place where Verbier’s nights ended — Bowie, Diana Ross and several generations of minor royalty included. It now belongs to the Group, which changed, in Cros’s words, “nothing here, apart from the carpet”; hotel guests reach it through a door behind reception and skip the queue. The Place Centrale is three minutes on foot, the Médran gondola ten, or a free shuttle. What the Experimental Chalet understands is that a ski hotel is judged less by its slopes than by its evenings — and it has built itself accordingly.
