Beau-Rivage Palace

Lausanne, Switzerland. Located in Lausanne Ouchy facing the Lake of Geneva.

Beau-Rivage PalaceLausanne, Switzerland

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Opened: 1861
Rooms: 168rooms and suites
City: LausanneSwitzerland
Setting: LakesideEurope

Practical information

Address: Beau Rivage Palace
Place du Port 17-19
1000 Lausanne
Switzerland
Telephone: Switzerland 021 613 3333
International +41 21 613 3333
Official website: www.brp.ch
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At a glance

There are 168 rooms and 6 suites.
Beau Rivage Cafe, the Myako Lausanne restaurant, the Rotonde restaurant, a English bar and the Sandoz room.
Located in Lausanne Ouchy facing the Lake of Geneva.
next to Olympics Museum

History

10 dates from the archives of Grand Hotels of the World.

1857
Develpoment of small town of Ouchy below Lausanne.
1861
Opening of the Beaurivage, inauguration 24-03-1861.
1877
Opening the Lausanne-Ouchy funicular connecting the shore of Lake Geneva to the Lausanne Railway station. (Today the funicular has been replced by an automated Metro and a nice 25 min walk from the trainstation to the lake.)
1907
The name of Edouard Constant Sandoz appears for the first time among the sharholders of the « Société du Beau Rivage Palace ». Sandoz and the chemist Dr Alfred Kern were the founders of the world known pharma empire Sandoz established in Basel in 1886.
1908
The palace wing is added in a neo-baroque style with the architectes Jost, Bezencenet et Schnell. Stained windows are added to the staircase by the decorator Chiara, they are identical to thoses used at the Ritz in Paris. According the the Gazette de Lausanne « The Hotel industry has produced nothing at once more beautiful in Switzerland and beyond. One of the masterpieces of the Hotel is the « Sandoz Room ». The dome is a stained-glass showpiece created by Eduard Diekmann.
1922
Beau Rivage Palace is the host of the « Conference de Lausanne ».
1945
Coco Chanel settles at the Beaurivage daydreaming about her former boyfriend, Bendor and waiting for her return to the world of fashion in february 1954.
Ownership
A large majority of the Hotel is still owned by the Swiss Sandoz Family, a global leader in generics (pharamceuticals). Edouard Sandoz is at the origin of Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, which in 1996 merged with Ciba Geigy to become Novartis. The family has made an unreserved commitment to maintain the hotel complex at it’s outstanding level.
Management
Alexandre Rufenacht (1858-1877) Antonio Martin Rufnacht (1878-1887) Jacques Tschuml (1888-1912) Otto Egli (1912-1935) Werner Müller (1935-1954) Ernest Schaerer (1954-1957) Walter Schnyder (1957-1979) Bobo von Alvensleben (1980-1982) Maurice Urech (1983-1993) Willy Brawand (1993) Christian Marich (1994-2003) Francois Dussart (since 2003)
Films
1941: « Gilberte de Courgenay » by Franz Schnyder 1959: « Some Like it Hot » by Billy Wilder 1971: « Death in Venice » by Luchino Visconti 2004: « Agents Secrets » by Frederic Schoendoerffer