A Croatian Tradition
When the Soviet Union unraveled in the early 1990s, Croatia suddenly resurfaced on the mental landscape of western connoisseurs of the Good Life. Here was a land that looked and felt like Italy (even...
View ArticleA Silent Revolution
The Jodok Fink Platz is an unlikely place to start a revolution. At the heart of the conservative 8th District, the square bears the name of an interwar politician renowned for his compromise-building....
View ArticleJosephstadt – Romancing the Eighth
Josefstadt is where old Vienna is hiding. While the 1st District is filling up with tourism, shopping, dining and expensive apartments only diplomats and Eastern European millionaires can afford, old...
View ArticleBanish the grey, go for colour!
The perennial “high fog” of Vienna’s winter weather calls for a powerful antidote! So here are some shops in cheerful colours offering a wide selection of tempting goods from the luxurious to the...
View ArticlePoleschinski Invites Into a Pop-up Living Room
Combine chilling with shopping, when Austrian designer Eva Poleschinski opens her showroom to the public as a Pop-up Living Room for two days beginning 28 Sept. Couch corners and lively music will make...
View ArticleCampusviertel: Student Life Meets the Bourgeoisie
The 8th District is (after the inner city) the smallest, richest and oldest of all the Vienna Bezirke – and that’s referring to the people not the buildings. But the northern Grätzl is academics’...
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