Vienna hotels conde nast8/29/2023 Off the first-floor check-in – more of a salon, really, with comfortable sofas to lie back on and confess to all your psychoanalyst – is a drawing room painted floor to ceiling with ferns and palm leaves and butterfly-bright tropical flowers so vivid that the occasional jewelled dragonfly may well skim the top of your kaffee und kuchen. A checkerboard passageway leads to a light-filled atrium with a molecular light installation and all the calm of one of Vienna’s historic courtyards. Those statues peering down from surrounding buildings seem to nod their approval. Right on Petersplatz and almost nudging the copper-green dome of St Peter’s Church, with horse and carriages clip-clopping past, this is a neoclassical ooomph of a building, reimagined and embellished, more than holding its own amid the rococo and Art Nouveau treasures of Vienna. Oh, and Vienna’s the most livable city in the world, according to The Economist-and the quality of life inside the Rosewood is very good indeed. It’s quite the grandest opening here in almost a decade. The group has a knack of acquiring landmark buildings (its second London hotel will be set inside the former American Embassy) and this is no exception: a much-loved 19th-century bank right in the heart of Vienna’s 1st district, close to many of the city’s most famous sights. Let’s face it, the landing of a new Rosewood is always going to turn heads-just look at the way Rosewood London helped revitalize a whole neighborhood when it opened in Holborn’s grand Pearl Insurance building back in 2013.
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