Viennese Guest Rooms
Radical restraint, radical individuality: Vienna’s Favoriten district now boasts an ascetic antithesis to the mushrooming design hotels. While, through their provocative bareness, the five guest rooms on the first floor of Erwin Gegenbauer’s vinegar brewery may be something of a culture shock for unprepared patrons, they stand as a tactile celebration of elemental needs and the values associated with the building and its history. In the convoluted spaces of the former pickle factory set up by his grandfather in 1929, Gegenbauer is searching for the “essence” of taste. The multi-faceted aromas of his unique, handcrafted
