Brooklyn designers Studio Tack are experts in renovating tired hospitality joints. Take Scribner’s Catskill Lodge, for example, a 38-room mountain lodge in Hunter, New York, that, in its heyday, was a chic weekend retreat for Manhattanites in the late 1960s when it was first designed by Guy Chirico Sr. Decades later, the lodge sat outmoded and empty until Marc Chodock and Glennon Travis bought the property and worked with Studio Tack on the renovation. The lodge reopened last November with an improved design that preserves the eccentricity of the original building. Here’s a look.
Photography courtesy of Scribner’s Lodge.
![the lobby’s brick floor and stone wall are original to the building; the 17](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-catskill-lodge-new-york-nicole-franzen-1-733x489.jpg)
![the lobby is lit with a skylight. the fireplace is the malm imperial carousel a 18](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-catskill-lodge-new-york-nicole-franzen-2-733x489.jpg)
![a custom dining table and bench by hudson based fern. the dining chairs were so 19](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-catskill-lodge-new-york-nicole-franzen-3-733x489.jpg)
![vintage midcentury furniture is a nod to the building’s original archite 20](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-lodge-lounge-nicole-franzen-733x489.jpg)
![the restaurant, called prospect, is designed with natural and black stained pin 21](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-catskill-lodge-new-york-sidney-bensimon-1-733x489.jpg)
![custom built in booths accented with peg & awl lewis and clark expedition s 22](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-lodge-dining-room-sidney-bensimon-733x489.jpg)
![dining chairs and bar stools were repurposed from the original scribner’ 23](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-catskill-lodge-new-york-nicole-franzen-4-733x489.jpg)
![bedrooms are all painted in benjamin moore cloud white. the bed and side table 24](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-catskill-lodge-new-york-douglas-lyle-thompson-1-733x489.jpg)
![of the 38 guest rooms, this is one of two full suites with multiple stories. ph 25](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-catskill-lodge-new-york-douglas-lyle-thompson-2-733x489.jpg)
![on the terracotta tile platform is a stardance gas stove from vermont castings. 26](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-catskill-lodge-new-york-douglas-lyle-thompson-3-733x489.jpg)
![the second story of the suite has a private balcony kitted with classic westpor 27](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-catskill-lodge-new-york-douglas-lyle-thompson-4-733x489.jpg)
![a bedroom designed with custom built in seating. the custom birch coffee table 28](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-catskill-lodge-new-york-douglas-emma-tuccillo-1-733x489.jpg)
![the bedroom is separated by a half tall room divider topped in terracotta tile. 29](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-catskill-lodge-new-york-douglas-emma-tuccillo-2-733x489.jpg)
![the macramé wall hanging is by the catskill kiwi. the bedside lamps, again 30](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-catskill-lodge-new-york-douglas-emma-tuccillo-3-733x489.jpg)
![a custom built in bunk bed for family lodging. photograph by nicole franze 31](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-lodge-bunkbeds-nicole-franzen-733x489.jpg)
![one of the suites features a lofted bedroom. photograph by nicole franzen. 32](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-lodge-loft-bedroom-nicole-franzen-733x489.jpg)
![bathrooms were fully renovated with new finishes and fittings. the terracotta h 33](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-lodge-bathroom-tile-douglas-lyle-thompson-733x1099.jpg)
![one of the smaller bedrooms also features a macramé hanging from the catsk 34](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-lodge-bedroom-macrame-nicole-franzen-733x489.jpg)
![the exterior of scribner’s catskill lodge was stained black and updated 35](https://media.remodelista.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/scribners-lodge-exterior-sign-sidney-bensimon-733x489.jpg)
For more from Studio Tack, see:
- Bed and Beer: The Dogfish Inn on the Delaware Coast
- A Homey (but Subtly Luxe) Restaurant in Columbia County
- Go West: A Mountain Lodge in Jackson, WY, by a Brooklyn Design Studio
- Hotels & Lodging: Casa Bonay in Barcelona
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