The Bar/Lounge at Hotel Das Triest

"There is also a decent Italian restaurant and a great bar"

"In colder months the Silver Bar is a Deco-style spot with leather banquettes and chrome tables where an expert mixologist concocts champagne cocktails and martini specials"

"A 1990s-era Sir Terence Conran–designed hideaway at the edge of baroque Karlsplatz, Das Triest is emblematic of the city’s no-frills, economic approach to environmentalism"

"Its old cross-vaulted rooms, which give the structure a distinctive flair, have been transformed into lounges and suites"

"Transformed by Sir Terence Conran into an ultrasleek ocean liner, this design hotel was once a postal-coach station on the route between Vienna and the Italian port city of Trieste; the original cross vaulting remains in the lounges and in some suites"

"The exemplary design here is breathtaking, but one look out of the lounge's large picture windows and guests quickly discover the heartbeat of this fine hotel, its flower-bedecked courtyard"