People’s
A Bar and Gallery
2025

Completed with Workstead
Photos by: Annie Schechter

People’s is an evening club and cocktail lounge inspired by the boutique nightspots of early 2000s New York City. The three-room Greenwich Village interior pays homage to Edith Halpert’s seminal Downtown Gallery that had occupied the space in the 1930s. Clad in plum-colored velvet, and in the soaring gallery beyond, a central bar fashioned from a 19th century bookcase is flanked by artworks that are rotated quarterly. Layered new and custom creations with antique furniture and deadstock finishes bridge past and present.