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Starting point
A turn-of-the-century building — divided by its own history.
High ceilings, but a floor plan that had grown over decades: partition walls added during an earlier subdivision into smaller units, uneven floors, doors and stucco badly worn. The potential of the 230 square metres stayed hidden behind too many walls.
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Life concept
Not: how many rooms does it need? But: what does the next everyday look like?
The client, an entrepreneur in his mid-fifties, is moving back into the city after years in the countryside — closer to the office, to culture, to short distances. Instead of a classic showcase floor plan, the result is an apartment that supports focused work, spontaneous guests, and quiet evenings alike: a home that thinks along with him, not just one that impresses.
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Spatial feeling
Old and new in the same breath.
Historic stucco on the ceiling, clean contemporary furnishing underneath — not a contrast, but a dialogue. Continuous oak flooring ties the newly reopened room sequence together, while restored double doors keep the rhythm of the original apartment audible. Light now reaches deep into rooms that partition walls used to cut off.
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Overall concept
Fully renovated. And thought through to the end.
Every trade was renegotiated — and everything, in the end, tailored to one person:
- Uneven existing floors → continuous oak flooring
- Partition walls added later → reopened, generous room sequence
- Historic double doors → fully restored, repainted and refitted
- Damaged ceiling stucco → renewed to the historic pattern
- Catalogue furniture → bespoke concept with Minotti and Rimadesio
- PropertyPre-war apartment, built c. 1900
- LocationVienna, 8th district (Josefstadt)
- Living space230 sqm
- BrandsMinotti, Rimadesio
- ServicesFull renovation, human-centered living design, furnishing concept
- Planning & build6 + 10 months