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Lakeside – mountain home for all lovers of the good stuff

A house by the lake, once designed and fitted out by the painter & architect Alfons Walde, then a temporary editing studio for filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, and later Kitzbühel’s first hotel with en-suite bathrooms in every room. Today, it stands as a pitch-black landmark for all lovers of authentic beauty, and a creative hub for brothers Max & Sebastian Witzmann – two passionate collectors at heart.

Over the years, the building has become home to a living collection of more than a thousand true vintage design pieces, paired with contemporary art and custom designs. An analogue oasis for anyone who doesn’t want to forget what life feels like offline. Books await in the lobby, and the rooms are filled with hand-picked music that brings your thoughts to a peaceful standstill. Not knowing in the morning what the evening will bring, daydreaming – that is the SEEBICHL MOOD.

Another living collection, albeit of a more fleeting nature, is the award-winning, radically regional cuisine at the SEEBICHL. A seasoned repertoire of ingredients, some ultra-rare and seemingly exotic yet locally grown (such as Austrian rice and peanuts). Heritage recipes from here and elsewhere, fused with fresh ideas, delight not only travellers but also draw in local guests.

Here, it’s often simply about genuine human connections, sharing stories, passionate conversations, and doing nothing together – doing nothing at all, completely in the flow. Because the house on the hill above the lake is, now more than ever, a hideaway for non-robots – for individualists living in Polaroid mode.

Whenever the sun is out, the terraces, corners, and gardens around the house turn into open-air living rooms. The sun deck with the warm pool becomes an open-air hangout.

If you do manage to venture further from the house, you’ll find true freedom in the open air, out in the mountains – breathing in the deep snow, leaving fresh tracks, jumping into the lake in the rain, tasting the droplets as they hit the moorland water, feeling the mist on your skin – before returning to the SEEBICHL to recharge in the winter sun on the terrace or float in the steaming open-air pool as snowflakes settle on your face.

And when the night wraps its dark cloak over the landscape after sundowners on the terrace, the green bar – serving homemade gentian tonic and other Seebichl classics – is the place to reflect on the day before drifting off into one of the 52 beds.