The Mezzanin Floor

The Mezzanine floor was a common architectonic feature of 1900 Vienna to bypass building regulations. Thus, there were only few floors on the paper but the height of the building was increased by intermediate floors such as basement, raised ground and mezzanine floor. That's how people avoided the constraints associated with additional floors. The hotel's Mezzanine floor boasts the painting by Hans Stalzer (1910) symbolizing the turn-of-the-century upper-class society while having supper. It also shows the original owner Wolf and an illustrious party, among them Archduke Salvator, Baron and Baroness Bornemisza and other celebrities of the Austro-Hungarian Danube Monarchy.