Rosewood Opens Fifth Hotel in Europe

(04 August 2022, 12:30 +07)  Rosewood has expanded its portfolio of luxury hotels with the opening of the Rosewood Vienna, the brand’s fifth property in Europe.

Located at Petersplatz, one of the city’s most famous squares, the Rosewood Vienna is close to many of Vienna’s cultural and historical sites and just steps from the popular pedestrian streets Graben, Kohlmarkt and Tuchlauben.

Rosewood Vienna occupies the former headquarters of the Erste Group Bank AG, a 19th-century landmark that comprised buildings of historic pedigree including the apartment in which Mozart lived and wrote The Abduction from the Seraglio.

Today, the bank has been transformed into the luxurious Rosewood hotel with 71 guestrooms and 28 suites that extend over four of the hotel’s seven floors.

Deluxe Room at Rosewood Vienna

The rooms and suites feature custom-made furnishings, including a mini-bar of walnut, leather and locally sourced gray marble, and an opulent bathroom vanity that features made-to-order lighting from one of Vienna’s leading manufacturers. Distinctive fabrics by Backhausen, the distinguished company established in 1849 and renowned for its Wiener Jugendstil patterns, embellish curtains, chairs, tissue boxes and bedside notepads.

Facilities at the hotel include a variety of F&B outlets - including a rooftop bar offer sweeping views of Vienna’s Old Town, a choice of indoor and outdoor meeting and event spaces and rooms,

An Asaya Spa, the first at a Rosewood property outside of Asia, will extend over floors five and six and will have four treatment rooms and a social suite, relaxation area, sauna, steam bath and experience shower. The spa is expected to open in September 2022.

“The opening of Rosewood Vienna offers today's ultra-luxury travelers a new kind of Viennese lifestyle, one that is imbued with the rich history of the destination yet the modern and cosmopolitan outlook befitting this dynamic European capital,” said Alexander Lahmer, Managing Director of Rosewood Vienna. “We are thrilled to open our doors to a distinctive hospitality experience in one of the world's greatest cities.”

The reimagining of the building, which was originally designed in 1835 by Austrian architect Alois Pichl, was realized by two Vienna architecture firms, A2K and BEHF, with décor by the London interior design studio Alexander Waterworth. Kroenland, a Viennese firm, created the brasserie and rooftop bar on the property’s sixth and seventh floors, spaces that take advantage of unrivalled settings.

Rosewood's other properties in Europe include Rosewood London, Rosewood Castiglion del Bosco in Tuscany, Hôtel de Crillon, A Rosewood Hotel in Paris and Rosewood Villa Magna in Madrid.

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