A New Luxury Spa Makes a Splash in the Swiss Alps
When the owners of Waldhaus Sils-Maria, a fifth-generation family-run hotel in the Swiss Alps, decided to add a serious spa to their circa-1908 storybook property, they turned to natural-product maven Susanne Kaufmann.
When the owners of Waldhaus Sils-Maria, a fifth-generation family-run hotel in the Swiss Alps, decided to add a serious spa to their circa-1908 storybook property, they turned to natural-product maven Susanne Kaufmann, who happens to be the fifth-generation owner-proprietor of the Hotel Post Bezau, in Austria’s pristine Bregenz forest. Like her namesake spa at Post Bezau, Waldhaus Spa by Susanne Kaufmann offers customized face and body treatments featuring her Organic Treats line of botanically based beauty elixirs (susannekaufmann.com). The chicly packaged products incorporate ingredients foraged from the woods surrounding Post Bezau, as well as others plucked from Kaufmann’s herb-and-flower garden. Kaufmann also helped Waldhaus take advantage of its own native resources, developing such indulgences as a restorative bath infused with oil extracted from the fragrant needles of local larch trees. Next up is a collaboration with the new Four Seasons Hotel at the Surf Club, in Surfside, Florida, where she’ll debut her Advanced Antiaging Facial.
It’s Time for a Spa-Cation
Nastya Sten “In New York, I usually go to Great Jones Spa. They have a variety of great treatments as well as nice water lounge.”
Maria Borges “Caudalie Vinotherapie at The Plaza.”
Jourdan Dunn “Akasha Spa at Café Royal.”
Photo by Alasdair McLellan, styled by Edward Enninful.
Princess Olympia of Greece “The Eve Lom facial by Eve Lom at the Sanderson.”
Photo by Inez Van Lamsweerde and Vinoodh Matadin, styled by Edward Enninful.
Caroline Trentini “Spa Kennzur in São Paulo.”
Harieth Paul “Greenhouse Holistic in Williamsburg.”
Neelam Gill “Babbington House. It’s complete escapism. I love how I can’t even get phone signal there, it forces me to switch off from the world.”
Grace Hartzel “Shibui Spa at the Greenwich Hotel.”
Charlotte Wiggins “Champneys—I’ve never been but my mum raves about it.”
Grace Plowden “Round Hill Jamaica”
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