Thread by @artisbrutal2021

The Alpina Gstaad ?🧐

https://twitter.com/TheAlpinaGstaad/status/1678726167853953025

The live auction is one of the major highlights of the Swiss Red Cross Gala in Gstaad.

Simon de Pury
Auctioneer

Lot 04 - Lifetime experience at The Alpina Gstaad

https://t.co/GX6YPm2QLm https://t.co/E73QegjKj0charity-events.redcross.ch/gala-gstaad/li…

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1541701026486550528

"From left to right: The Alpina Gstaad Managing Director Niklaus Leuenberger accepts key from owner Marcel Bach and Nachson Mimran, son of owner Jean Claude Mimran. — Photo by Raphael Faux"

https://t.co/yytA1NEyDrhospitalitynet.org/news/4058751.h…

Jean Claude Mimran is a French businessman with extensive agricultural interests in Senegal, and banking and industrial investments. He is the president of The Mimran Group

He has been nicknamed "The Sugar King of Africa"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Clau…

In 2005, with the British businessman and Formula One Executive Bernie Ecclestone, Mimran and Bach bought ski lifts and the rights to Glacier 3000, a nearby skiing area in Gstaad's neighbouring Les Diablerets district.
swissinfo.ch/eng/world-famo…

"The Alpina's permanent art collections include Sixty-three works by 36 artists including Dan Colen, Tracey Emin, Jana Euler, Alex Israel, Terence Koh, Henrik Olesen, General Idea and The Bruce High Quality Foundation

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpina_Gs…

"The Bruce High Quality Foundation is an arts collective in Brooklyn.. Its members remain anonymous, .. but it is known that they are a group of mostly men and that some of them met and became friends while studying art at Cooper Union"


Oh yeah? https://t.co/Nkn9cMeOLQen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Hig…

"The hotel was built on the site of the Grand Hotel Alpina, which was demolished on April 11, 1995. Opposition from local residents to the building of a new hotel took thirteen years to overcome, and the hotel was completed and opened in late 2012"
https://t.co/vqrCSI3Cn2archive.is/Pu02r

"Gstaad is the place for people who have graduated to the big-big bucks — and their children with commensurate trust funds, many of whom are enrolled at Le Rosey, whose satellite winter campus is here. (The most expensive private school in the world)

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https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1592147570541072384

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https://twitter.com/MrLilburne/status/1286680684933844992

"They say if you haven’t been to the Palace lobby, you haven’t really been to Gstaad..Notz has been invited to one of the diamond dinner galas, which are quite the thing around here, this one hosted by the luxury jeweler de Grisogono..."

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https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1464879202201739264

"Its founder, Fawaz Gruosi, who.. made his reputation convincing the world it needed black diamonds. He is also going through a very talked-about divorce from Chopard’s co-president Caroline Scheufele, another Gstaad long-timer who throws her own diamond dinners..

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https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1475062378333192192

"People tend to wind up here after soirees at such fabulous chalets as Maurice Amon’s, where Peter Marino has created a phantasmagoric art-resplendent party room in the basement."..

Marino is in Epstein's flight logs

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https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1584378354022481920

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"A dance floor retracts over a swimming pool, just as it does at the enduring GreenGo nightclub in the Palace, where tradition dictates that during the last weekend of their final winter term, Le Rosey seniors cannonball into the pool fully clothed."

palace.ch/en/culinary/gr…

"When the hotel’s uncharacteristically young, low-key owner and general manager, Andrea Scherz, spotted new-to-town Harvey Weinstein in the Grill downstairs, tails out, undershirt visible, he initially thought “a waiter had gone crazy and was quitting.”"..

"Lorenz Bach sits in the restaurant at the Hotel Olden, now a plaything for its co-owner, the Formula One tycoon Bernie Ecclestone."..

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1564659834552782850

"It seems incredible that there was a time when Gstaad was an artists’ colony, when a room at the Palace cost around $10 a night. “There was Bill, .. Buckley. Ken Galbraith. David Niven. Roger Moore. Nathan Milstein. Yehudi Menuhin,” says Taki. .."

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https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1682404683053248512

"“I think it was Elizabeth Taylor who started the rot.” And now, Madonna’s here house-hunting. “Thank God you don’t see her in town,” he says."

"All those years with Niven and Moore and never a paparazzo. Sure, there was one photographer who used to hang around outside the private Eagle Ski Club, “and we asked him not to take pictures, and he never did,” says Taki."..

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https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1466537009837588481

"It being an overcast day at the Eagle atop the Wasserngrat ski lift nearby, Taki is eating a club sandwich down in the Palace lobby with the excitable investor Atilio Brillembourg and with Sebastian Taylor, another investor whose fortune was seeded at a backgammon table."

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https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1479591495770558464

"All around us are Le Rosey alumni visiting their children, parents who often decide to divert millions toward a chalet and stay a while. This is how Gstaad became Gstaad. One table over sits the preternaturally mature Christophe Gudin, 29, who was phased in last year .."

"People say Bach runs this town. The son of a local farmer, he decides whose calls get returned and who will play well with the Bertarelli, Fayed, Flick and Goulandris families."

Bertarelli with Richard Branson 👇

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https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1682894812289069056

Getting the picture yet?

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1677952687579463684