{"id":111738,"date":"2026-01-25T08:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111738\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T08:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T08:36:13","slug":"studio-valle-de-valle-completes-stars-wine-bar-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/111738\/","title":{"rendered":"Studio Valle de Valle completes Stars wine bar in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

Local outfit Studio Valle de Valle has worked with seasoned New York<\/a> restaurateurs to create a wine bar<\/a> in a single room with a zinc-covered bar, cedar panelling and custom furniture.<\/p>\n

Stars is located in Downtown Manhattan, in the city’s East Village neighbourhood, and has a 12-seat bar on the ground floor of an early-20th-century tenement building.<\/p>\n

From the street, the bar is subtle, with a facade that features preexisting tiles and a four-panel metal doorway with semi-opaque glass.<\/p>\n

\"StarsStudio Valle de Valle has designed Stars wine bar in New York<\/p>\n

At 450 square feet (42 square metres), it is Studio Valle de Valle<\/a>‘s first bar in New York and its smallest commission to date.<\/p>\n

The name, Stars, is an “homage to downtown” celebrity, according to co-founder Chase Sinzer.<\/p>\n

Together with partner Joshua Pinsky, Sinzer is also responsible for other East Village hotspots such as Claud<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"StarsThe East Village bar occupies a small ground-floor space in a historical tenement<\/p>\n

Sinzer said that the small space required an extra focus on materials and an attention to detail, which was the brief they brought to Studio Valle de Valle.<\/p>\n

They took a “jewel box” approach to the project, filling the small space with soft light.<\/p>\n

In order to expand the space, the studio topped the space with a faux, fabric-wrapped skylight that brings light in and gives a sense of height.<\/p>\n

\"StarsIt has a faux skylight wrapped in fabric<\/p>\n

The walls were clad in cedar, while the central, wrap-around bar has a zinc top and is surrounded by custom mahogany stools with articulated fabric tops designed by Studio Valle de Valle.<\/p>\n

Though there are only twelve seats around the metal bar top, the design incorporates a waist-height ledge at the back of the space to accommodate additional standing guests.<\/p>\n

The floors are a matte red marble.<\/p>\n

\"StarsThe zinc of the bar and cedar wall panelling create material contrasts that expand the space<\/p>\n

Sinzer said that the contrast between the wood and metal of the walls and bar, respectively, was essential to the overall design approach.<\/p>\n

“The zinc is almost buttery and malleable, the fusion red marble is so much more subtle than the name implies, and the Valle stools bring them both together; the world between gray and red may really be yellow,” he said.<\/p>\n

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On the far side, away from the standing rail, the back-of-house elements are visible to the bar goers.<\/p>\n

This aspect is slightly separated from the bar space by a cased opening, which has highly reflective metal on the ceiling aspect, further visually expanding the space.<\/p>\n

More zinc clads the wall on the backside, where shelves feature glassware.<\/p>\n

\"StarsStudio Valle de Valle created custom mahogany stools for the 12-seat bar<\/p>\n

Suspended above is a single-unit dual-channel stereo speaker, clad in mahogany, designed by Brooklyn’s Tom Bloxam to match the stools.<\/p>\n

In terms of art, two original pieces by American artist Frank Stella adorn the space.<\/p>\n

The bar is one of many highly polished interiors that animate the New York food and beverage scene. Stars features select wines put on by wine director Julia Schwartz and a small bites menu.<\/p>\n

Other recent additions include a sober club by Opa Architecture and Laube Studio<\/a> and Funny Bar<\/a>, a postmodern-inflected bar, restaurant and lounge with interiors by local studio Safwat by Safwat.<\/p>\n

Studio Valle de Valle is run by Giancarlo Valle and Jane Keltner de Valle. Giancarlo Valle was a Dezeen Awards judge in 2025<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The photography is by Andrew Bui.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local outfit Studio Valle de Valle has worked with seasoned New York restaurateurs to create a wine bar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[8075,49976,9,24,55,54,56,821,822,823,820,49977,49978],"class_list":["post-111738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-bars","tag-cedar","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-restaurants","tag-sectionall","tag-sectioninteriors","tag-usa","tag-wine-shops","tag-zinc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}