For the concluding session in the program Collecting Design: History, Collections, Highlights, at the New York School of Interior Design, we are going to discuss the early modern design in Vienna, one of my favorite chapters in the history of design. In his memoir, Stefan Zweig the most successful writer in the German-speaking world, wrote about his life in Vienna, the capital of the Austro Hungarian empire: “When I attempted to find a simple formula for the period in which I grew up, I hope that I convey its fullness by calling it the ‘Golden Age of Security’.