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Otto Wagner Villa

Austria

You reach the house the way its architect intended: up a carriage drive and then a broad flight of open steps to a central block fronted by Ionic columns. This is Villa Wagner I, at Hüttelbergstraße 26 in Hütteldorf, on the edge of the Vienna Woods. Otto Wagner designed it and had it built between 1886 and 1888, not as a showpiece in the city but as a summer residence for his own family. It goes by several names, which hints at how many lives it has had: the Otto Wagner Villa, the Ben Tieber Villa, and the Ernst Fuchs Villa. Today it belongs to the heirs of the painter Ernst Fuchs and houses the Ernst Fuchs private museum.

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