People’s Bar and Gallery
Interior Designer at Workstead, 2024
Photos by Annie Schechter for Surface MagPeople’s is an evening club and cocktail lounge inspired by the boutique nightspots of early-2000s New York. 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.