Hotel Das Triest

Hotel description

Vienna suffers no shortage of history; seemingly around every bend there’s a reminder of the city’s rich cultural heritage, and the hotel scene reflects this fact-most of Vienna’s better hotels are opulent classical palaces, untouched by the passage of time or the changing of fashions.

Hotel Das Triest, however, is the delightful exception, a stylish and utterly modern hotel designed by Sir Terence Conran and attracting the usual suspects-artistic and creative types, as well as anyone bored by the traditional-as its clientele. The building was once a station on the Vienna-Trieste stagecoach line (hence the name), and still bears the vaulted ceilings of the original plan, but little else.

The interiors are smart and modern, obviously, with expertly curated details-surprisingly bold colors to set off the minimal backdrop, and quality furnishing and fixtures-alongside obvious crowd-pleasers like Frette linens and Molton Brown bath products. Black-and-white fine art photographs replace the typical inoffensive hotel artworks, and fresh flowers abound in the guest rooms as well as the public spaces.

Top-floor rooms have high ceilings and access to private terraces as well as a rooftop lounge, and the public spaces are just as inviting, from the warm earth tones of the Silverbar to the cool and crisp elegance of the restaurant, Collio. These stylish spaces, along with the central location, turn Das Triest into a hub of social activity-quite the contrast to the rarefied air of the historic grand hotels.