The Otto Wagner Pavillon Karlsplatz is recognizable by its elegant white marble panels, iron frames, and distinctive apple-green paint, accented by gilded sunflower motifs. Built in eighteen ninety-eight and eighteen ninety-nine, these two…
Naschmarkt Food and Architecture
Stroll through Vienna's premier open-air market while admiring Otto Wagner's legendary Art Nouveau apartments. This walk combines culinary tastings of traditional Austrian snacks with the bold, floral architecture of early modernism.
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1. Wien Museum Otto Wagner Pavillon Karlsplatz
2. Secession
You can identify the Secession building by the sprawling, gilded sphere of metal laurel leaves that crowns its roof. Residents of Vienna famously nicknamed this intricate dome the golden cabbage. The structure itself consists of stark,…
3. Urbanek
Urbanek is a specialized delicatessen located within the Naschmarkt, the long-standing open-air market spanning the Mariahilf district. You can identify the shop by the clusters of people often standing at its modest stall, enjoying plates…
4. Vienna Vinegar Brewery, Wiener Coffee Roasting Gegenbauer
The Wiener Essigbrauerei Gegenbauer, or Vienna Vinegar Brewery, occupies a storefront at the historic Naschmarkt. The shop is easily identified by the wide array of glass bottles lining its shelves, containing vinegars, oils, and roasted…
5. Drechsler Wienzeile
Café Drechsler sits at the corner of Linke Wienzeile and Girardigasse, right beside the Naschmarkt. It occupies a space that has been a coffeehouse for over a century, tracing its history back to nineteen nineteen when Engelbert Drechsler…
6. Wienzeilenhäuser von Otto Wagner
The Wienzeilenhäuser consist of three apartment buildings constructed between eighteen ninety-eight and eighteen ninety-nine. They are distinguished by their bold departure from the historicist styles common in nineteenth-century Vienna,…
7. Majolikahaus of Otto Wagner
The Majolikahaus is instantly recognizable by the expanse of colorful, glazed earthenware tiles that wrap its entire front façade in a repeating pattern of pink, green, and blue climbing roses. Completed in eighteen ninety-eight by the…