Interior Detail, Austrian Postal Savings Bank. © Copyright 2018 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A red chain in front of a window alcove in the Austrian Postal Savings Bank, Vienna
Someone recommended that we take a look at the Austrian Postal Savings Bank (Österreichische Postsparkasse) building while we were in Vienna a couple of years ago, so we headed out and started walking that direction. The remarkable building, created in the early 1900s, was designed by Otto Wagner. The features that probably most attract attention are the art nouveau exterior and the open and airy main hall on the first floor.
Since we were not in a hurry, after we looked at this features we noticed an entrance to a hallway at the rear of the hall and found our way to a museum dedicated to Wagner. Back in that part of the building other spaces were also open, including one with this window opening to an enclosed inner courtyard. A single red chair stood in front of the alcove, presumably so that it could be displayed as an example of the furnishings of the place. The scene is interesting to me for its juxtaposition of interior and exterior light, the architectural details on the walls, and because something about the one empty red chair seemed vaguely ominous.
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