New York’s luxury boutique Park South Hotel has unveiled its $20-million redesign, featuring modernized guestrooms and upgraded public spaces. San Francisco and New York-based Cass Calder Smith (CCS) Architects completed the public spaces, including four F&B venues, which are spearheaded by husband and wife team Tim and Nancy Cushman.
Mediterranean-inspired eatery Covina boasts a multifaceted dining room, a U-shaped bar, and an open kitchen with a wood grill and copper tile soft-stone oven. The adjacent Covina Café is a grab-and-go concept during the day and an extension of the dining room at night. Located just off the hotel lobby in an attached brownstone is O Ya NYC, a contemporary, upscale Japanese restaurant featuring new and traditional design elements like glazed kiln tile, steel, exposed brick and concrete, and Japanese carpentry. O Ya’s expansive dining counter made from walnut timber serves as the focal point. In addition to banquette seating, four intimate booths made from cedar and walnut are concealed behind a simple wood screen. Celebrating its third season, the Roof at Park South bar and lounge, which also functions as a venue for meetings and events, offers views of the Manhattan skyline and the Chrysler Building.
The 131 guestrooms, designed by New York-based studio ABI Design, feature minimal modern, Art Deco-style details with bespoke dark cherry furniture, bedding, and chandeliers. In tribute to the glamor of the 1930s, a color palette of warm champagne, gray, and cream tones permeates the interiors corresponding with materials like satin and velvet. All closets and bathrooms received upgrades, and images of New York parks from photographer Nicole Capobianco’s “City Respite” photo series grace corridor walls.
Other facilities include a 400-square-foot hotel library and onsite fitness and business centers.
