Margaret Childs
Margaret Childs is Editor in Chief of Metropole. Originally from New York, she has called Vienna home for 18 years. Her long-form writing specializes in business, profiles and interviews. She is known for talking too fast and too loudly and inhaling coffee like there's no tomorrow. She tweets @mtmchilds
Photo: Michèle Pauty
Melange | Christoph Thun-Hohenstein on Design for the Neo-Biedermeier age
MAK director Christoph Thun-Hohenstein on the resonance of objects, digital humanism and how we can design our way out of the singularity
Every day, as the sun rises over the rooftops of the Ringstrasse, the...
Editor’s Letter | The Beef Between Art and Design | September 2017
Art and design are at the center of a semantic battle. Design can serve the purpose of making things attractive, easy to use, evocative, or simply functional. But unlike fine art, with design, there’s...
Hotel am Brillantengrund and Proprietor’s Marvin Mangalino Recipe for Bistek
The feisty proprietor of Hotel am Brillantengrund runs a family restaurant and art space with a world-famous hipster hotel attached.
Marvin Mangalino is obsessed with cycling and seemingly at one with his hotel. Since he...
Editor’s Letter | Designer Destinations | July/August 2017
Has the world gotten smaller? It feels as though I have an impression of every corner of the globe.
Whether it’s an image of someone backpacking through India, snapshots of a long weekend on the...
Melange | Catching Travel Blogging Fever with Instagram Pioneer Lady Venom
Austrian Marion Payr talked to editor-in-chief Margaret Childs on the evolving world of social media, trends in travel and why Vienna is the best city to come home to.
Marion Payr has one of the...
Penne à la Vodka at Treubleiben Wien
A Persian New Yorker transplants Brooklyn grub to Kirchengasse
At Treubleiben, one of the more recent additions to the Kirchengasse gastro-strip, Kaveh Tabatabaie has recently revamped the menu, doing what so many expats have done...
Editor’s Letter | Romancing the City | June 2017
As the Beatles said, when cynicism and sarcasm don’t get the better of us, that warm, gooey emotion – Love with a capital L – can really be all we need.
The feeling is so...
Melange | A Drink with Julian Wiehl, Editor-in-Chief of Vangardist Magazine
Julian Wiehl is the mind behind Vienna’s “progressive men’s magazine”, Vangardist, showcasing the savoir vivre of the gay community
In 2015, Vangardist Magazine and the advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi paired up to break new ground...
On the Canal: Waterfront Dining, Where 1010 Meets 1020
Every year the Danube Canal promenade gets a little more sexy, with laid-back bars, delicious street-food-style eateries and the urban attitude to match. Here are our top 10 picks for 2017
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