Renovations have restored the 41-room Hotel Kärntner Hof to its art-nouveau-era glory with Jugendstil colours (grey and sage), English wallpapers and Italian fabrics while retaining the original oak floors, period paintings lining the walls and the wood- and frosted-glass-panelled lift to the roof terrace.
Hotel Kärntner Hof
Vienna
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