Best of #BeautySalon

Beauty salons and hairdressers: the places dedicated to body care become spaces to be comfortable, with groomed and often funny architectural projects

Ten spaces for the body care carefully designed to create an atmosphere where you can relax and feel at ease, with color and materials choices which reflect the water, the skin... or the nail polish.


Hair do is a two-story hair salon in front of Chiba Station. Overlooking the city with a large window, the building combines a constructive economic system to a functional interior.

– Sides Core designed a minimal hair salon with an extreme attention to every single detail, including sound, with which clients get in touch to offer a customized space experience.

– In Marseille, Margaux Keller – with Bertrand Guillon architect –  designed an hairdresser space in the muted seaside tones of azure blue and yellow and plenty of southern French touches.

Top: Yusuke Seki, Kolmio+LIM, Osaka, Japan. Above: Margaux Keller with Bertrand Guillon, Le Coiffeur, Marseille, France


– Japanese architectural studio Sides Core completed in Kobe an hair salon: a space that gradually takes shape inspired by vine’s unique ability to grow individually and then connect, shaping a whole. A space where customers can enjoy spending time.

– Moriyuki Ochiai Architects designed a beauty salon around the theme of water using recycled aluminum sheet to express the flow of water and hair and bringing out the beauty of the raw materials.

– The shop philosophy focused on natural products influenced Anne-Sophie Poirier, who used a limited palette of materials to gave a minimalist yet warm look to this nail spa in Armadale.

– +tongtong’s latest project, Her Majesty’s Pleasure, is equal parts café, retail boutique, beauty salon and bar, all located under one roof in downtown Toronto.

– Japanese designer Yusuke Seki completed Kolmio+LIM, a nail salon in Osaka where wood and white colours reflect natural skin tones and the space itself is intended to symbolize the process of nail colouring.

– Tsubasa Iwahashi Architect refurbished a beauty salon in Osaka prefecture finding an architectural solution that allows the owner to keep his habit to greet passers.

– The nail polishing strong color palette creates the identity of this nail-art studio: an atmosphere that could be replicated in any commercial space without loosing the feeling of the studio.

Sides Core, equip, Sakai-shi, Japan