AIME Studio’s interiors for the most recent outpost of The Hoxton lodges, in a renovated marble-clad Fifties workplace constructing in Vienna, rejoice arts and crafts and post-war modernism.
Artistic studio AIME Studio has transformed the previous administration constructing of the Chamber of Commerce in Vienna, which was initially designed by architect Carl Appel, into The Hoxton Vienna.
The constructing now options 196 rooms, a rooftop bar and swimming pool, a restaurant, cocktail bar, a non-public condominium and an auditorium for occasions and programming.
By focussing on mid-century Austrian design, the hotel goals to indicate friends a much less classical aspect of what’s typically thought-about a standard European metropolis.
Appel was recognized for shaping the “Second Ringstrasse” type of the post-war reconstruction interval, which the studio referenced in its design.
“Our intention was to create a design that revered the constructing’s historical past and to protect the architectural type of the Fifties,” AIME Studios’ Aaron Gibson instructed Dezeen.
“We visited buildings in Vienna designed by Carl Appel and famend Austrian architects of the early Twentieth-century – like Adolph Loos and Otto Wagner – which impressed the interiors for The Hoxton Vienna,” Gibson added.
The double-height foyer of The Hoxton Vienna preserves key options and particulars from Appel’s authentic Fifties design.
The mid-century finishes of stones and metals within the authentic workplace constructing set a impartial and semi-industrial context for the renovation.
“We intentionally used the important thing options and particulars from Carl Appel’s authentic design for the structure and the inside as a foundation for our decision-making all through the bottom ground,” the studio stated.
AIME Studios additionally labored with The Federal Monuments Authority Austria, which enforces the Monument Safety Act with a purpose to discover, shield and preserve Austria’s cultural heritage.
Collectively they chose furniture gadgets for the lodge which mirror the Fifties, together with gentle fittings, armchairs, sofas, and even the materials and textiles used within the area.
“We inherited wonderful current options like the massive format terrazzo flooring, travertine partitions and corrugated aluminium columns, that are all nice examples of Fifties structure,” AIME instructed Dezeen.
The inside scheme enhances the present restrained color palette of the pure stones’ gentle hues of green-grey, beige and blue tones.
The studio additionally took inspiration from the Wiener Werkstätte (Viennese workshops), one of many longest-lived design actions of the Twentieth century and a key organisation for the event of modernism.
Centred within the Austrian capital, it bridged conventional strategies of manufacture and avant-garde aesthetics.
Within the bedrooms, geographic patterned curtains are influenced by iconic Werkstätte materials and ruched headboards are impressed by Loos’ type.
“We chosen Viennese materials with restrained colors and quiet and small-scale patterns, demonstrating a recent tackle the Wiener Werstätte arts and craft motion,” Gibson defined.
Apart from the same old lodge program of rooms and eating places, The Hoxton Vienna options a big auditorium designed in a Fifties palette of pale yellow and blue with mid-century wooden panelling, furnishings and fittings.
The auditorium will host occasions like stand-up comedy, gigs and conferences, as a part of the broader cultural programming of The Hoxton Vienna.
The lodge additionally has a non-public “condominium,” which is an open-plan collection of rooms throughout totally different ranges, together with kitchen, eating, sitting and assembly areas.
The interiors of the condominium distil the essence of AIME Studios’ inside design at The Hoxton, with Wiener Werstätte patterns and colors, mid-century modernist furnishings and light-weight fittings, and paintings referencing the interval.
Different lodges from The Hoxton which have lately featured on Dezeen embody their first opening in Germany with The Hoxton Charlottenburg in Berlin and the Ricardo Bofill-inspired The Hoxton Poblenou in Barcelona.
Images is by Julius Hirtzberger.