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BOUTIQUE GUESTHOUSE, VAL-DE-TRAVERS

SERVICED APARTMENT, BERN

BOUTIQUE GUESTHOUSE, INTERLAKEN, 2015 - 2022

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About

Bergdorf is a multidisciplinary

company working in the fields of 

interior design, hospitality, journalism, 

publishing and 

webdesign.

In addition to its own projects, Bergdorf is happy to work on commission.​

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Bergdorf is owned and managed by writer and journalist Mirko
Beetschen

and hotelier and interior designer Stéphane Houlmann. 

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Mirko Beetschen

Mirko grew up on Lake Thun. He studied English Literature and Journalism in Bern before becoming a design and architecture journalist. He joined the Bergdorf company in 2007.

 

Mirko lives in Bern and currently works on his fourth novel:

Stéphane
Houlmann

Stéphane grew up in the city of Bern. He has obtained several degrees and worked in a variety of fields. He started his own business in 1997, today's Bergdorf company.
 

Stéphane is currently involved in establishing the new guesthouse in Val-de-Travers, which is due to open in late autumn 2026.  

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press

press & awards

FEBRUARY 2023

Comfort Zone

Bergdorf Interior has made it on the cover of "Das Ideale Heim".

DAS IDEALE HEIM

June 2016

JANUARY 2022

Mirko's Favourites

Swiss magazine «Homes» asked Mirko Beetschen to name ten of his favourite objects and places.

BILANZ HOMES

June 2016

JANUARY 2022

The Need for Lighthouse Projects

From an Interview with Raum & Wohnen: «Although author and interior designer Mirko Beetschen maintains a critical distance to the mountains, they have influenced his life and work: Having grown up on Lake Thun and lived in Bern again for six years, he has concerned himself with the allure of the Alps. And he wonders how mountain regions can overcome the merely touristic attraction and become coveted places to live and work.»

RAUM & WOHNEN

June 2016

JANUARY 2022

A Good Blend

Maison Bergdorf is proud to be part of the exclusive collection of Hotels in the recently published coffee table book «Great Escapes Alps» by Taschen.

TASCHEN VERLAG

June 2016

MARCH 2022

Inexorably Thrilling

From the review of the «Aroser Zeitung» on the reading of ‹Bel Veder›: «How author and performer Mirko Beetschen and sound artist Barbara Schirmer raised tension to the extreme is inimitable. Both have proven themselves artists of the first rank, who know how to create mood and build atmosphere.»

AROSER ZEITUNG

June 2016

OCTOBER 2021

An art gallery crossed with an eccentric chalet

Indian «Travel + Leisure» has a knack for the Bergdorf Team

TRAVEL + LEISURE - INDIA

June 2016

NOVEMBER 2020

The most beautiful Hotels in Switzerland

The Maison Bergdorf team is happy to be part of the «Heimatschutz» hotel collection

SCHWEIZER HEIMATSCHUTZ

June 2016

SEPTEMBER 2020

Where to Bed Down

Condé Nast traveller about Maison Bergdorf: «Maison Bergdorf is not only a warm and imaginative space, it’s also part of the growing trend for hybrid offerings - residences that double as galleries and allow guests to shop their look.»

CONDÉ NAST TRAVELLER

June 2016

JULY/AUGUST 2020

Hotels with a Heart

Swiss magazine «SI Style» puts Maison Bergdorf in excellent company as one of the go to places in​ Switzerland in 2020.

SI STYLE

June 2016

MAY 2019

Literary Award for «Bel Veder»

Mirko Beetschen is awarded with the literary prize of Bern's Office of Culture 2019. – «With ‹Bel Veder›, author Mirko Beetschen successfully creates a visually stunning and thrilling Gothic Novel, in which he playfully messes with the reader's expectations. The setting is an old grand hotel in the Swiss Alps in the autumn of 1946.»

OFFICE OF CULTURE - LITERATURE COMMISSION

June 2016

JULY/AUGUST 2019

Visually Stunning and Deeply Resonating

«Das Ideale Heim», Switzerland’s oldest interior magazine, felt very much at home at Maison Bergdorf.

DAS IDEALE HEIM

June 2016

JULY/AUGUST 2019

Design Heaven

«Das Ideale Heim», Switzerland’s oldest interior magazine, felt very much at home at Maison Bergdorf.

DAS IDEALE HEIM

June 2016

SEPTEMBER 2019

Dive in

«Schöner Wohnen» about our Insider Guide Bern: «Their selection represents what they stand for themselves: quality, nonchalance and taste.»

SCHÖNER WOHNEN

June 2016

JUNE 2016

Slow Renovation

Great article about our Maison Bergdorf and how we go about renovating historic buildings.

COSY MOUNTAIN

June 2016

OCTOBER 2018

Nightmare Hotel

From the «Berner Zeitung» review: «Mirko Beetschen builds up the tension very skilfully and weaves in new, surprising plotlines (…). And of course the story is so gripping and creepy that you can hardly put the book down.»

BERNER ZEITUNG

June 2016

MAY 2018

Best for Rest

«Monocle» magazine recommends Maison Bergdorf.

MONOCLE

June 2016

JUNE 2019

Zeitgeist

NZZ review about our Insider guide: «The rest of Switzerland likes to scoff about Bern’s proverbial slowness and that things don’t move here. In their well written and beautifully illustrated guide, Mirko Beetschen and Stéphane Houlmann prove that this prejudice definitely doesn’t apply to the local culture and gastronomy scene.»

NZZ

June 2016

OCTOBER 2018

No Bedtime Story

From the review in «Der Bund»: «(…) Mirko Beetschen proves to be a talented narrator who knows how to capture moods accurately and make atmospheres come alive almost physically in his dense language.»

DER BUND

June 2016

DECEMBER 2013

Mountain High

Our chalet in Interlaken met with international resonance and was published in countless blogs, magazines and books. One of the first to pick up the story was the British «Elle Decoration».

ELLE UK

June 2016

JANUARY 2017

Northwind

«Umbauen & Renovieren» has visited our apartments in Bern’s Mattenhof neighbourhood.

UMBAUEN & RENOVIEREN

June 2016

NOVEMBER 2008

Double Award

Our transformation of an old town apartment building in Bern was awarded with the Dr. Jost Hartmann Prize, once for excellent conversion (architects Andreas von Almen and Andreas Mäschi) and once for excellent new use of a historic building.

DR. JOST HARTMANN PRIZE

June 2016

Contact

Contact us

Bergdorf AG
Jubiläumsstrasse 31, 3005 Bern, Switzerland
mail@bergdorf.org | +41 43 817 63 30

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