Concierge: Sausage stands / Vienna
Dog days
Vienna’s sausage stands have stood the test of time, while laying bare the city’s changing appetites and clientele. And now one photographer – a Monocle regular – is giving the topic the focus it deserves.
Austrian photographer and Monocle regular Stefan Oláh is known for his sharp eye for façades and interiors but also the lesser-known idea of “transit architecture”. He shoots non-places and hidden spots, the spaces in between that come to define cities by accident rather than by design.
The first edition of his photo book on Vienna’s Würstelstände (sausage stands) was titled The Hot 95 and was released in 2013 by historic publisher Verlag Anton Pustet. But that was just the beginning of Oláh’s obsession. This autumn a batch of…
