Vienna
Viola Stifter - is an architect based in Vienna, raised in a former Vineyard on the gentle rolling Upper Austrian hills and swayed by the coastal scenery of the Veneto.
She graduated in architecture under William Alsop in 2001 and earned her Master’s degree in Exhibition and Cultural Communication Management from the University of Applied Arts Vienna in 2004. In addition to designing architecture for exhibitions, she has gained insight into the client’s perspective through her work at various cultural institutions, including Kunsthalle Wien and Architekturzentrum Wien, as well as for the Commissioner of the Austrian Pavilion at the 8th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2002.
Beyond her focus on exhibition design, she has collaborated with the architecture studio Labvert on retail & shop design projects (including cosmetic counters for Giorgio Armani, Viktor&Rolf, and Dior), and contributed to film and theatre productions with Donmartin Supersets and Wienerland.
Her design work has been recognized with a nomination for the Adolf Loos State Prize for Design (2007) and the Upper Austrian Award for the Promotion of Talent in Architecture (2008).
Vine
Refosco is a mysterious, very old family of dark-skinned grape varieties native to the
Venetian zone and the area of Friuli.​
The wines this grape yields can be quite powerful & complex with a deep violet color and a faint, not unpleasant, bitterness surfaces in the finish, dense & lively wines with bite. On the palate, there are strong currant, wild berry and plum flavors. The wines can stand some aging and after a period of four-to-ten years, they achieve a floral quality as well, assuming a bouquet of violets.
Venice
Giacomo Casanova (born in Venice in 1725). Histoire de ma vie. Volume 1, Chapter 8
During our meal, a priest happened to drop in, and, after a short conversation, he told me that I ought not to pass the night on board the tartan, and pressed me to accept a bed in his house and a good dinner for the next day in case the wind should not allow us to sail.
He brought me to his house where we partook of an excellent supper prepared by his housekeeper, who sat down to the table with us, and with whom I was much pleased. The refosco, still better than that which I had drunk at dinner, scattered all my misery to the wind, and I conversed gaily with the priest.
I went to bed, and in the morning, after ten hours of the most profound sleep, the housekeeper, who had been watching for my awakening, brought me some coffee. I thought her a charming woman, but, alas, I was not in a fit state to prove to her the high estimation in which I held her beauty.
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