A first look at the Cheval Blanc, Seychelles

The Seychelles. You wake up here, in this archipelago set roughly halfway between Madagascar and the Maldives in the Indian Ocean, sit up from the abundance of featherdown and fine Egyptian cotton that swaddles your giant bed, and look out through the floor-to-ceiling glass panel that is your bedroom wall. If you’re clever, you’ll have left the shades up, because Mother Nature, as she is wont to do in equatorial places like this one, has curated a morning horizon that’s as gorgeous as…