Marc Veyrat's former La Ferme de mon Père restaurant complex in Megève village had already earned a certain mythic status in French gastronomy before Arnaud Zannier saw something else in its bones: three traditional Savoyard chalets of aged larch and dry-stone construction that could become Zannier Hotels Le Chalet, a twelve-room boutique hotel opened in 2011 and shaped around what Zannier calls Mastered Simplicity. Interior designer Géraldine Dohogne of Zannier's in-house studio understood that the architecture had already done most of the work, and proceeded accordingly. The rooms show it clearly. Walls and ceilings clad entirely in silver-grey larch planking, wide-board oak floors, bedheads upholstered in unbleached linen, fireplaces set into the timber frame — every surface chosen for what it already was, not what it could be made to look like. Rattan chairs and ceramic table lamps sit against the wood without ceremony, mixing regional craft with something more loosely global. Below, the restaurant moves through barrel-vaulted stone arches and rough-hewn structural posts, candlelit and warm, the bar framed by a final arch at the far end. Deepest in the building, the spa pool sits in a room of polished concrete and tadelakt plaster, lit from within the water, the stripped-back palette a deliberate counterweight to the organic warmth above. The whole property holds its Alpine identity without ever making a performance of it.