After an extensive overhaul, the Smyth Hotel in Tribeca has just unveiled a whole new look, with interiors designed by Gachot Studios and the opening of Little Park and the Evening Bar from award-winning restaurateur and chef Andrew Carmellini and his partners Luke Ostrom and Josh Pickard.

The 14-storey, 100-room Smyth, a Thompson Hotel, has been reimagined by Gachot Studios, who have also designed the city’s Acme restaurant, The Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club and The Sterling Mason residences. The firm approached the project as if they were designing a private home and transformed the ground floor into a collection of intimate spaces open to the public, not just hotel guests.

The space is divided into the Living Room, Den, Library and Evening Bar, which mix Scandinavian and American mid-century furniture with original art, books and photography from local gallery owners and friends. The Den also features a fireplace clad in custom-crafted Guastavino tile, the same as that previously used on the vaulted ceilings of New York City landmarks such as Grand Central Terminal and Carnegie Hall.

Tucked behind the fireplace in the Den, the Evening Bar is a 27-seat modern interpretation of a classic hotel bar, with a cocktail menu designed by Anne Robinson, formerly of PDT, Booker and Dax, temphasising artisanal distilleries, organic fruit and vegetable extracts. There is a bar food menu to, which reflects the market-driven principles of Carmellini’s adjoining restaurant, Little Park. The bar’s showpiece is a four-panel frieze mural depicting archetypal scenes from Tribeca’s history by Brooklyn-based artist Matthew Benedict.