Hotel Schani Salon

The project

The hotel has 24 compact rooms with natural materials and open-plan bathrooms. Patterned textiles and Viennese details nod to the great names of the Modern age; instead of a wardrobe, a Thonet chair hangs on the wall as a valet stand. The artist Oskar Kubinecz reinterpreted works from the period to decorate the rooms.

The building at Mariahilfer Straße 58 is a pioneering reinforced-concrete structure from 1906, built by members of the Wittgenstein family. The entrance is designed like a coffeehouse and works more as a salon than a lobby, a place for guests, writers, painters and philosophers to meet.