People’s is a new evening club and cocktail lounge inspired by the boutique nightspots of early-2000s New York. Owners Margot Hauer-King and Emmet McDermott tapped Workstead to imbue the three-room Greenwich Village interior with a narrative quality, and the design team paid homage to Edith Halpert’s seminal Downtown Gallery that had occupied the space between 1926 and 1940. The front parlor opens to a salon 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. Workstead generously layered new sources and custom creations with antique furniture, deadstock textiles, and other vintage elements to bridge past and present, while menswear patterns found throughout the interior expressly celebrate Halpert and her seminal role in early American modernism.