It "shows remarkably similar characteristics in its obsession with detail and complete disregard for the requirements of the people who are expected to live within it."

He focused on the windows, doors, doorknobs, and radiators, demanding that every detail be exactly as he specified, to the point where everyone involved in the project was exhausted.

[2] One of the architects, Jacques Groag, wrote in a letter: "I come home very depressed with a headache after a day of the worst quarrels, disputes, vexations, and this happens often.

Bernhard Leitner, author of The Architecture of Ludwig Wittgenstein, said of it that there is barely anything comparable in the history of interior design: "It is as ingenious as it is expensive.

Describing the work, Ludwig's eldest sister, Hermine, wrote: "Even though I admired the house very much, I always knew that I neither wanted to, nor could, live in it myself.

It was owned by Thomas Stonborough, son of Margaret, until 1968, when it was sold to the developer and former SS-Member Franz Katlein, for demolition.