In Vienna's magnificent old buildings, it is tempting to categorically subordinate individual and personal living to the existing style guidelines. Our client, however, wanted to maintain and emphasize the classical guidelines, but still wanted to create an original tension with modern, high-quality lifestyle and artistic elements. 'Living is always an experience in which personal cultural demands can be realized in a spatial context in such a way that an independent and highly subjective statement and presentation can be achieved. Living must therefore animate and tell an interesting story of its own. Thus, elements and objects from their own history, from professional demands, from private contexts and from reflections of the surroundings in the center of Vienna were brought in, creating a connection from the detail to the overall spatial impression within which one finds oneself reflected in all facets.

'These are projects where you don't just have to focus on the practical and necessary - but by creating contexts that interpret an existing character well and developing new impressions out of themselves and creating a new originality,' says Elke Altenberger, 'projects in which I can realize myself very well as an interior designer.