Viennese Life
In the hills above Vienna, the vineyards offer "heurigen" (or "tavern style") gastronomy served with Austrian wines and spectacular views—and plenty of reasons to celebrate Viennese life.
Imperial Luxury at Anantara Palais Hansen Vienna
Opened in 1873 for the Vienna World's Fair, Palais Hansen was created by Baron Theophil Hansen, the renowned architect who shaped much of Vienna's famed Ringstrasse.
Vienna’s Mühlbauer, Hatmaker to the Stars
During the Depression in Vienna, it was not uncommon for the Viennese to keep rabbits and chickens on their apartment balconies—not only for food but also for their skins and feathers. Klaus Mühlbauer, the fourth-generation owner of Mühlbauer, remembers…
Vienna Imperial
In an imperial city replete with fantastic characters, many of whom were emperors and archdukes, royals and aristocrats, there are few Viennese doyennes more fabled than Anna Sacher, the 19th-century bon vivant and hotelier whose outsized personality…
Vienna’s Loos Bar Pops Up in New York
Few boîtes are more deserving of the moniker “jewel box“ than Vienna’s fabled Loos Bar. At less than 300 square feet, Adolf Loos’s modernist masterpiece is smaller than many American closets—yet the Viennese architect’s masterful use of mirrors beneath a…
Vienna Design Week Celebrates 10 Visionary Years
Renowned for its impressive imperial majesty, Vienna is, more accurately, an amalgam of contemporary design and cultural heritage. During the past decade, Vienna has been consistently voted the world’s most livable city, an honor that has coincided with…
Imperial and Contemporary Vienna for 2016
For the past six years, Vienna has been voted the world’s most livable city. What’s going on in Austria’s capital? Apparently, all the right things. Lest you feel that city is a maze of imperial palaces ringing with the sounds of Mozart, Mahler,…
Divine Wien Vienna
To wander Vienna during the blue hour at the height of the ball season is to feel as if you have slipped effortlessly into a film by Max Ophüls or Ernst Lubitsch.