A week before she first visited this chalet in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland, its owner had coffee with Khaled, the late father of Lebanese interior designer Maria Ousseimi. ‘He got talking about what he looked for when he was buying a…

A week before she first visited this chalet in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland, its owner had coffee with Khaled, the late father of Lebanese interior designer Maria Ousseimi. ‘He got talking about what he looked for when he was buying a…