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LIVING THE DREAM IN CHAMONIX-MONT-BLANC

Living your dream takes a lot of determination. Yet Chamonix based entrepreneurial craftsman Peter Steltzner is doing just that.

THE FABRIC OF FLIGHT

Returning to her roots in Chamonix offered a magical twist to the career of fashion designer Valérie Pache

THE KNIFE MAKER FROM MONT BLANC

In the 1960s, in a garage in California, Steve Jobs built his first computer. Four decades before, Walt Disney had turned his uncle’s garage into a film set where Alice was supposed to be frightened by the Queen of Hearts.

IL SIGNOR ALBERTI ED IL SUO SENSO PER IL LEGNO

Il falegname Roger Alberti spiega perché i larici di Cortina sono i migliori e per quale motivo in montagna si dovrebbe costruire utilizzando il legno.

UN CORTINESE DOC

Cortina sta per tradizione ed ospitalità all'italiana. Uno splendido martedì mattina, Best of the Alps visita la falegnameria di Massimo Lorenzi e scopre come si celebrano appropriatamente questi valori.

DUE FABBRI ECCEZIONALI

Lampade a forma di giglio, coltelli realizzati a mano, ringhiere dalla forma artistica: Diego Menardi e Roberto Chenet sono fabbri puro sangue. E grandi amici.

NEL PAESE DELLE MERAVIGLIE DI MAURO LAMPO

Lo scultore è il creatore dei "Giauli", ovvero di quelle figure di legno che assomigliano a gnomi e che raffigurano i primi abitanti delle Dolomiti. Nel suo libro e forse presto anche al cinema.

L’ARCHITETTA DEL LEGNO

Ivette Clavel, 44 anni, non è un’architetta comune: non lavora con il cemento, ma esclusivamente con il legno. Proprio per questo motivo non progetta edifici, bensì realizza mobili.

LA STORIA NEGLI OGGETTI DEL PASSATO

Nel garage c’era quella enorme, vecchia valigia. All’epoca, l’architetto d’interni Caterina Caramello era una piccola bambina curiosa e aprire quella valigia misteriosa significava addentrarsi in un altro mondo:

PETER, IL LEGNO E LE PECORE

Sin da quando era bambino, Peter Trojer ama i lavori manuali. E, da allora, adora anche il legno. La passione di Peter è diventata la sua professione e, un po’ più tardi, anche la sua arte.

IN SALITA, MA NON SEMPRE

Da oltre 200 anni la famiglia Grivel e la loro omonima azienda sono strettamente legate all’alpinismo.

TRANSFORMING GREY INTO ART

Street art on the mountain: At the Vision Art Festival, artists make graffiti works on concrete blocks. They blend in with nature, play with light.

WHAT'S GOING ON WITH BOLT?

Swiss sculptor and painter Christian Bolt doesn't like lies in art. He likes inner precision. What does he mean?

THE SUMMER OF SCULPTURES

Chain saws, logs and safety glasses at the International Sculpture Symposium in Davos : where art is being made, things can get messy.

A WOODEN MATTER OF THE HEART

The Davoser sledge is a legend. Master carpenter Paul Ardüser has successfully brought it back through crowdfunding.

CH-CH-CHANGES!

Hans-Martin Heierling, manufacturer of custom-made ski boots, reflects on consumerism and the happiness that lies in owning little.

A SUMMER BACK THEN

If anyone really knows about the Walser people and their historic background, it is Barbara Gujan, director oft he “Nutli Hüschi“ museum of local history in Klosters.

A SHOEMAKER DRIVEN BY PASSION

First there were the skiers. Then came the alpinists - and clients who wanted to wear shoes that were both elegant and comfortable.

THE SCENT OF LEATHER AND LODEN

Kaspar Frauenschuh never listened to what his customers said. That might have been his fashion label’s secret to success.

GIVING IN TO THINGS

How artist Daniel Kocher found his master in nature.

DESIGNER OF FASHION FROM THE MOUNTAINS

Meet Sonia Zimmermann, a true lover of fashion.

THE LAST OF HIS KIND

Visiting Walter Scherl, Austria's last cowbell blacksmith.

THE TEACHINGS OF WOLVES IN A FINE THREADED FAMILY BUSINESS

When Armand Allard swapped his pitchfork for a sewing needle he created a family business with a neatly stitched sense of place in Megève.

MY WAY

What drives sculptor Pierre Margara is his general excitement about life.

HUNTING WITH FRIENDS

Bow-hunting and knife-making can teach you a lot about friendship and this is something Megève-based Jacques Brunet and Arthur Forlin know all too well.
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