Stepped pale-pink walls, brass lights and velvety benches are among the decorative art-deco-style details at this wine bar, which Brooklyn-based Workstead created inside an old brothel in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Vintage occupies a building with a colourful history in the city's Blue Dome District ? an area downtown named after an art-deco-style domed building completed in 1924 ? that was formerly used as a brothel.
The wine bar is located on the first floor, below The First Ward hair salon, which was also designed by Workstead.

Plush furnishings, and brassy and wooden details in the bar are a tribute to the 1920s and 1930s architecture in the surrounding area.
Pink-painted walls step inwards towards the ceiling ? a profile typical of the art-deco aesthetic. The front of the walnut bar, built in the centre of the room, is staggered in a similar way.
Workstead ? led by husband and wife Robert Highsmith and Stefanie Brechbuehler ? enlisted local millworker Eric Fransen to complete the bar.
He also built a glazed floor-to-ceiling volume encased in a brassy grid for storing wine on the rear wall, and a similar but smaller structure mounted behind the bar.

Furnishings were sourced from a mix of American contemporary and antique dealers, including Los Angeles-based brand Lawson Fenning, which specialises in "modern-vintage furniture".
Workstead similarly aimed to capture an "elegant mix of old and new" in the moody Atlanta restaurant it designed for lifestyl...