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Vienna Design Week, September 25 - October 4, 2026, is Austria's largest design festival. Curated by Lilli Hollein, each year Vienna Design Week sees that year's chosen district open up creative processes and give scope for experimentation and a different design focus, as well as exploring the design landscape of each year's chosen European country.
During VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, the city becomes a platform and showcase of design, highlighting how design is more than just the finished object. VIENNA DESIGN WEEK defines design as an essential part of the cultural production. The festival shows that design shapes our material culture, our every-day life and our world as consumers. Simultaneously, it explores how it influences our lifestyles and most fundamentally, our aesthetic senses and judgements.
Cocoon yourself within a world of playful and random beauty that emanates from the Hotel Altstadt’s entire being, and surround yourself in style at this design den that we think makes for the perfect hub during Vienna Design Week.
Wander from room to room down winding, gallery-inspired corridors and marvel at the incredible collection of contemporary artworks that calls Hotel Altstadt home. Among them you will even find a number of jaw-dropping works by the modern masters: Warhol, Leibowitz and Attersee.
These sit perfectly among the carefully curated mix of designer and antique furnishings, and, we like to think, gaze down in approval as you sip your Viennese espresso while lounging casually on a bespoke – and perfectly placed - designer sofa.
An exploration of art and design flows throughout the entirety of Hotel Altstadt found in the cool and creative Spittelberg Quarter, otherwise known as the SoHo of Vienna, it is the perfect creative bubble from which to venture forth to the Vienna Design Week 2017 and explore the city.
This is a beautifully furnished rabbit hole you will never want to leave. Surrounded by exceptional design and beauty from beginning to end, exploring design fairs by day and being looked after at night, Hotel Altstadt will become your own brilliantly unforgettable version of Wonderland. You will head home feeling bright, invigorated, and inspired like never before.
Browse our unique Vienna Art Guide below for all there is to know about Austria’s art and culture capital. Once the epicentre of the longstanding Habsburg empire, Vienna is awash with galleries, artists, museums and odes to moments of age-defining culture, as well as a new generation of creatives call this city home, once again.
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With more than 9000 artworks, Vienna's Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, MUMOK for short, sits au courant against the vast MuseumQuartier designed by Ortner&Ortner Architects.
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The Ankerbrotfabrik is a fabulous industrial building in what is now the edgy former worker’s 10th district of Vienna. In the spaces once used for the baking of bread right up to 10 years ago, now art has moved in and it is alive today with a renewed, cultural sense of purpose.
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Director of internationally acclaimed Vienna Design Week, Lilli Hollein had never yet turned her eye to interior design until Vienna's Hotel Altstadt came knocking.
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Founded in 1754 by Empress Maria Theresa, the oldest area, the medicinal garden, is replete with poisonous plants and the sultry tropical house is home to orchids, cacti and carnivorous plants.
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Architect and interior designer Roland Nemetz designs 'his' suite at the boutique Hotel Altstadt Vienna - part of a series of creatively inspired interiors that capture the soul of artsy Wien.
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Peek into our Hotel Altstadt Vienna interior design series at room 64, this time designed by celebrated Viennese architect, Adolf Krischanitz.
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Creativity at Otto Wiesenthal’s iconic Altstadt Hotel Vienna is never in short supply. The new United Nations Suite is a fantastic design narrative related to the UN, John Lennon, Le Corbusier to 'Make carpets, not war'.
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Step inside Altstadt Vienna, where Otto Wiesenthal and daughters Saskia and Lisa curate a living gallery of art, design and Viennese hospitality in the city’s vibrant 7th district.
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While endless innovative projects continue to pour out of Denmark and Sweden, oftentimes their smaller but no less creative Scandinavian sister, Norway, is overlooked. Introducing Artscape Nordland, a permanent exhibition of 33 spectacular sculptures adorning 32 Norwegian municipalities.
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Pienza is a Renaissance experiment that never finished – and that’s what makes it perfect. Golden piazzas, sweeping Val d’Orcia views, and pecorino-fuelled indulgence – this is Tuscany’s dreamscape, frozen in time.
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Zaha Hadid's unstoppable design eye and influence is felt here at MAXXI, Rome's premier museum of contemporary art and architecture - worth a peek.
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